Supervision Skills for Health & Social Service Professionals

This skills based training enables senior staff to provide effective supervision for others in their own discipline area.

• introduces supervision as a professional development process for health & social service professionals
• provides training and processes for one to one clinical supervision
• provides opportunities for participants to experience the power of supervision through practice activities and work based tasks.

Objectives

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to

• define supervision, the role of the supervisor and the limits and boundaries to the role
• establish supervision relationships
• develop supervision contracts and negotiate goals for individual supervision sessions
• use a range of micro-skills to enhance supervisee reflection and learning
• manage one to one supervision sessions
• use a range of frameworks and processes for effective supervision
• use power and expertise appropriately in supervision contexts
• explore models of supervision and their relevance to supervision practice
• discuss ethical boundaries and issues in the supervision process
• discuss cultural perspectives on supervision

Content

• Supervision defined
• Issues and challenges for clinical supervision in the health & social service professions
• Establishing supervisory relationships
• Contracting for supervision
• Supervisor skills and competencies
• The 7 key skills for effective supervision
• Maps and models
• Frameworks for supervision sessions
• Questions not answers
• The Art of Feedback
• The Supervisor's Toolbox - tools for facilitating supervisee reflection and learning
• Supervision in Action - practice activities
• Ethical issues in supervision