{"id":7796,"date":"2024-01-16T11:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T11:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/?post_type=wd_case_study&#038;p=7796"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:21:31","slug":"katy-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"wd_case_study","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/casestudy\/katy-schmidt\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Katy Schmidt, Advanced Social Worker - Disabled Children&#039;s Services.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wpMU2JHjnpE?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My name is Katy Schmidt and I&#8217;ve been working at Devon County Council, as a Social Worker, for 6 years.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>How have you progressed through your role?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I completed my Assessed Year in Employment, which is my ASYE with Devon. I was supported through mentoring and training from the Social Work Academy and received support from my peers and mentors. I originally worked in the Children&#8217;s and Families team in County Hall Exeter and then at Estuary House, Newton Abbot. Then in 2021, I moved to the Disabled Children&#8217;s Service &#8211; South.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Can you give an overview of your role?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I became an Advanced Social Worker in April 2022, working within the Disabled Children&#8217;s Service. And as part of my role, I&#8217;m also currently undertaking a Practice Educator qualification with Bournemouth University.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve got some significant lived experience in supporting those with mental difficulties and Autism. And in my role as an Advanced Social Worker I&#8217;m able to utilise my knowledge in combination with research and theory to support families.<\/p>\n<p>The Disabled Children&#8217;s Service offers support as well as advice and practical help to children and families, and we identify needs through assessment. I hold a small and complex case load, so can continue to complete direct work with children and families. And I&#8217;m able to support overseas social workers and student social workers to learn and develop in their role. And in addition to this, I also provide supervision and oversight to two family practitioners in the team.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What do you enjoy about living and working in Devon?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I enjoy working in Devon County Council and plan to remain here and I&#8217;ve been given many opportunities to develop my career in Devon. In addition to my primary role as an Advanced Social Worker, it was during the Covid pandemic, I was given the opportunity to work part-time shifts in the Emergency Duty team and I continue to work these shifts on weekends and in the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve have great support from both teams that I work within, and enjoy what Devon has to offer. I also love living in Devon, and have lived here for 24 years and there is so much to do. I would definitely encourage others to come and work in the advanced social worker role within Devon County Council as it&#8217;s a great place to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"casestudy_category":[49,52,64,66,65,50],"class_list":["post-7796","wd_case_study","type-wd_case_study","status-publish","hentry","wd_casecat-asw","wd_casecat-disabled-childrens-services","wd_casecat-experienced-social-worker","wd_casecat-south-east","wd_casecat-south-west","wd_casecat-team-manager-childrens-social-work"],"acf":{"job_title":"Advanced Social Worker","area_of_work":"Disabled Children's Services"},"category_details":[{"id":49,"name":"ASW","slug":"asw","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/casestudy\/category\/asw\/"},{"id":52,"name":"Disabled Children's Services","slug":"disabled-childrens-services","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/casestudy\/category\/disabled-childrens-services\/"},{"id":64,"name":"Experienced Social Worker","slug":"experienced-social-worker","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/casestudy\/category\/experienced-social-worker\/"},{"id":66,"name":"South &amp; East","slug":"south-east","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/casestudy\/category\/south-east\/"},{"id":65,"name":"South &amp; West","slug":"south-west","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/casestudy\/category\/south-west\/"},{"id":50,"name":"Team Manager","slug":"team-manager-childrens-social-work","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/casestudy\/category\/team-manager-childrens-social-work\/"}],"featured_image":false,"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casestudy\/7796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casestudy"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wd_case_study"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casestudy\/7796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17096,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casestudy\/7796\/revisions\/17096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wd_casecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casestudy_category?post=7796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}