 Hello, my name's Rachel, so I'm still in my first year as a newly qualified social worker doing the ASYE. I qualified at Chiddister University and initially wanted to go into children's. For various reasons I did my second placement in hospital discharge with adults and very quickly fell in love with the job role. I hadn't thought about doing an ASYE, I was hoping just to qualify I guess, I hadn't thought beyond that but because I really enjoyed my role I very quickly started to ask questions about it. I'm a mum of three as well so I wanted to see whether that was something that was achievable for me to do around the children. And I was offered and thankfully the chance to do the ASYE on a part-time basis so I worked four days a week which works really well around the children. There's been lots of opportunities to work flexibly as well at home which works around childcare commitments. I'm very much supported in the team. I have access to regular supervision which is really good for discussing my cases, getting support for my cases that I'm working on but also doing social work theories, reflective practice and incorporating models into my work as well.