Mary Gibson

Mary started working with us in 2020, initially as an apprentice educator on the Social Work degree apprenticeship programme, and more recently as a lecturer in Social Work.

Mary qualified as a social worker in 1996 and has worked for 15 years as a registered social worker within a local authority. During this time Mary worked in a range of teams within adult social care. These included a community mental health team (working with older adults), a team specialising in working with people with physical disabilities, as a social worker attached to GP surgeries and hospital-based social work (acute, non-acute and psychiatric).

Mary's interest areas are work-based learning, practice education, person-centred theory and practice, and social work in adult social care.

Mary is registered with Social Work England and is a member of the British Association of Social Workers (BASW).

Alongside Mary’s current role here, she continues to work as an off-site Practice Educator (PE stage 2) for student social work placements.

Over several years Mary has supported social work students, both as a Practice Educator and as a placement tutor. This has been within a wide range of agencies, including local authorities and the NHS, a women’s centre, a community centre working with asylum seekers, AgeUK, an agency working with people within the LGBTQ+ community, a mental health and wellbeing training consultancy, an agency supporting vulnerable families and within secondary and primary schools.