Jayne Ashton Powell is a systemic practitioner social worker with over 20 years experience working in both adults’ and children’s services. Jayne has also worked in third sector training agencies, delivering training to teenagers struggling to achieve their potential in school and on training programmes in preparation for work.
Jayne has a BSc in Behavioural Science, MSc in Health Psychology and is qualified in post-16 education with a PGCE; she has also completed the Foundation and Intermediate level training in Systemic Practice and Family Therapy course.
She has worked as a manager of a mental health rehabilitation residential service providing support to adults with mental health diagnoses and co-occurring conditions and in an adult protection team as a safeguarding coordinator, which involved overseeing the adult protection process, instructing s126 enquiries, undertaking non-criminal investigations, chairing strategy meetings and delivering training to wider stakeholders.
Jayne has previously worked in a Children Looked After Team and also held child protection cases as a social worker, completing duties such as statutory child protection visits, s.47 enquiries, chairing core group meetings and attending Child Protection Case Conferences.
She currently works in an edge of care team for children’s services, working therapeutically with parents where there are child protection concerns for children, to consider change and keep children safe within their family system. Jayne also undertakes Form F and Connected Persons Assessments independently and has worked in a Senior Social Work role responding to child at risk reports of concern, which includes chairing strategy discussion meetings. She is an experienced trainer with exceptional communication skills who is also currently facilitating reflective case discussions, presentations and support to the wider children’s services teams to implement a systemic model of practice for the service.
