As we use it here, staff development is a role within an organisation. (NB: an independent trainer, though contracted to work with an organisation’s staff, is a ‘trainer’.) For these purposes, use ‘staff training and support’ for issues more specific to working with psychological and emotional needs of service users.
Keyword Groups: Organisation
staff morale
Use this keyword for a range of concerns over staff support as a problem; for staff support as a positive issue, use “staff development” or ‘staff training and support’.
timescales
Early difficulties may have lasting effects, and entrenched (or ‘chronic’) problems may need long-term solutions and relationships: yet services’ funding tends to be organised in short-term cycles, and research often likewise. Use this keyword for any discussion on suitable and un-suitable timescales of support and evidence-gathering, as well as for more ‘pure research’ questions; it is […]
time banks
An exchange scheme by which volunteer workers gain credits by their work, which can be exchanged for other goods of services. ( See “Gardiner : Manageable Chunks of Time”)