‘The advice that has stayed with me through my social work career’

In a video for our Dear Future Social Worker series, director Steph Downey shares the “best piece of advice” she has received during a career lasting over 25 years.
It came from a retired social worker just after Steph – now service director in adult social care at Gateshead Council – joined the profession and was afflicted by imposter syndrome.
“I was a bundle of nerves,” she says in the video. “Anxious that both the university that had qualified m