I work for a charity that sits alongside a social services department.
I like to be seen as "one of the guys" but I'm clear about my independent role. It isn't easy sometimes. Social workers often have massive workloads and morale is low. Staff are signed off with stress on a regular basis.
Resources are tight. Inevitable tensions arise between the two organisations but we work hard to get around them.
Take the work night out. What better way to break the ice and get down and dirty with your colleagues than to go out on the lash? Gulp! Secretly, the idea had always filled me with dread. But recently I bit the bullet - in the name of teamwork - because a colleague was leaving. This was an even newer experience for me - the social workers' night on the tiles.
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