Surrey Matters

A special podcast series from Surrey Matters.

The Surrey Social Care Hotseat is a new podcast series from The Surrey Adult Services Academy and Adults Wellbeing & Health Partnership (AWHP) workforce team. The team will be talking to different teams and roles within AWHP in a bid to delve into and highlight the range of different roles and career opportunities in the directorate.

We talk to second year Social Work Trainee Natalie, she shares how the different parts of her journey and how she began with Surrey in the workforce team and then took a sudden unexpected turn into social work. From youth work to PR & Marketing, public & private sector- find out how Natalie's journey brought her into Surrey and then into her current role today.

Job Vacancies: ⁠⁠www.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/opportunities/adults⁠⁠

Staff Benefits: ⁠⁠www.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/life-at-su…taff-benefits⁠⁠

We believe that every individual has the potential to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others, this underpins our value of ensuring that ‘No one is left behind’.

A special podcast series from Surrey Matters.

The Surrey Social Care Hotseat is a new podcast series from The Surrey Adult Services Academy and Adults Wellbeing & Health Partnership (AWHP) workforce team. The team will be talking to different teams and roles within AWHP in a bid to delve into and highlight the range of different roles and career opportunities in the directorate.

Listen to Natalie's Icebreaker where we get to know Natalie on a bit more of a personal level and have a good laugh and a joke about salads and trifles before we do a deep dive into Natalie's exciting Career journey in Part 2 to become a social work trainee! We find out that James won’t brave Tesco alone and also consider podcasting on a beach on Christmas day!

Job Vacancies: ⁠⁠www.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/opportunities/adults⁠⁠

Staff Benefits: ⁠⁠www.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/life-at-su…taff-benefits⁠⁠

We believe that every individual has the potential to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others, this underpins our value of ensuring that ‘No one is left behind’.

A special podcast series from Surrey Matters.

The Surrey Social Care Hotseat is a new podcast series from The Surrey Adult Services Academy and Adults Wellbeing & Health Partnership (AWHP) workforce team. The team will be talking to different teams and roles within AWHP in a bid to delve into and highlight the range of different roles and career opportunities in the directorate.

Hear Sikhathele' story about joining Adult social care - we learn about the different decisions and pathways that led her to become a senior practitioner in the Adult social care academy as a social worker, we hear about her journey and some excellent advice for any budding social workers and senior practitioners, she also shares part of her culture and practice with us.

Job Vacancies: ⁠⁠www.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/opportunities/adults⁠⁠

Staff Benefits: ⁠⁠www.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/life-at-su…taff-benefits⁠⁠

We believe that every individual has the potential to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others, this underpins our value of ensuring that ‘No one is left behind’.

As energy bills rise we found out about energy and money saving tips and grants available to make your home more energy efficient.  How to keep safe when keeping warm, what and where new Warm Hubs are in Surrey, and about the latest scams to beware of.

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Over the years Surrey has welcomed many evacuees and refugees into their communities when living in their own countries has not been tenable.  We met some people across Surrey who gave us some insights into what support has been made available, what it’s like to be a host family. We also hear first hand accounts from some Afghans who tell of their experience of what it meant to be evacuated.

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Recorded live from The Greener Travel  Roadshow in Farnham we find out exactly what Surrey are doing to get to Net Zero including some top tips on how we can ALL make a difference and discover when you can see hydrogen buses on our Surrey roads. 

To find out ten things you can do to help with Climate Change in Surrey visit surreycc.gov.uk/climatechange

We hope you enjoy the show. If you have some ideas for an interesting podcast story please send us an email with the subject line 'Surrey Matters Podcast' to surreymatters@surreycc.gov.uk.

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