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The CLF is being used in lots of different ways by individuals and organisations across the social services sector.
On this page you will find a range of examples and we regularly add to this list. If you are using the CLF and would be willing to share your experience to date with others we would love to hear from you. Click here to contact the project team at the SSSC.
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East Lothian – Community Care Workers |
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East Lothian Council Social Work Service has recently completed a CLF pilot programme with some Community Care Workers. This has been evaluated and the recommendations are currently being followed through.
The aim was to provide CCWs with the opportunity to enhance their practical skills and knowledge to become CLF champions and to help develop the service into a learning organisation.
Whilst the purpose of the programme was to:
- Inform the Strategic Implementation of the CLF
- Improve partnership working with others
- Improve the induction experience of new staff within Adult Care
- Develop generic working skills to support career progression, staff development and the ability to cope with increasing service demands.
Comments from participants included
“Chance of working with colleagues to provide information I felt was missing in adult social care for new staff joining the team”
“Showed challenges the service would need to meet to promote job rotation, got people thinking of how we would overcome this”
“Once rolled out, is it mandatory, it has to be”
Read More East Lothian CCW Pilot Evaluation |
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Clackmannanshire - Aligning CLF with Competency Review Systems |
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The difficulty of aligning the Continuous Learning Framework with pre-existing corporate competency systems has up to now been seen as one of the major hurdles to a more widespread uptake of the CLF. Linda Paterson describes the reasons for matching the CLF with Clackmannanshire's Performance Review and Development system. She outlines the advantages and the surprising flexibilities of this approach. Read more |
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St Joseph's Service |
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Craig McGregor details their CLF journey so far. A journey that started with involving service users, includes steps taken following the use of the CLF organisational audit tool and the plans for using the CLF personal capabilities within supervison. Read more |
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Gowrie Care – Values Based Recruitment |
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Max Gallagher describes in detail the thinking and processes that were involved in changing a Person Specification towards one that looks to draw out from the applicant the values that they have. They used a chosen selection of capabilities from the Continuous Learning Framework and the organisation's values to put a filtering process that involved the actual recruiters. They are working to enable a recruitment process that has a much greater chance of recruiting the right kind of worker. Read more |
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Barchester Healthcare |
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Liz Sorenson - Regional Learning & Development Manager, talks about how she started using the CLF personal capability: Professional Autonomy to begin to address the issue of accountability training. She outlines the first steps that she took, how this was developed and reflects on the CLF journey so far. Read more |
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Scottish Borders and Midlothian Councils |
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Marianne Hughes job-shares the Practice Learning and Development Manager post at Scottish Borders and Midlothian Councils. She has supported social work students for many years, particularly during their periods of practice learning. When the Continuous Learning Framework (CLF) was introduced, she thought of a way in which it might support social work students to prepare for their practice learning. Read more |
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Trainee Social Care Worker - Shetland |
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Traineeships for Social Care Workers in Shetland – the story so far... Read more |
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East Kilbride Dementia Carers Group |
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How the CLF can be used within a Carers group. Hear the views from one carers group co-ordinator. Read more |
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CLF - The Rivendell Approach |
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Rivendell are using the CLF in staff supervision but looked first at organisational capabilities to make sure they could support staff effectively. Read more
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Ark Housing |
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An interview with Lynne Fowler, Learning and Development Coordinator at Ark Housing Association who tells us her experience of introducing the CLF and a concept of a learning organisation. Read more |
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