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About this course:
This programme is designed for staff supervising front line practitioners. It aims to provide participants with the skills required to deliver effective supervision with a focus on tools and methods for supervising complex practice.
There will be an expectation that participants complete tasks between Parts 1 & 2 of the training and actively reflect on their supervisory practice.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the programme participants will have been given the opportunity to:
- Understand the importance and key elements of effective supervision in children’s social care and recognize the impact of supervision on outcomes for children.
- Identify the four key functions of supervision and be clear about the stakeholders in supervision.
- Understand the influence of supervision histories both on the supervisor and the supervisee.
- Consider the role of supervision throughout the stages of professional development from newly qualified to experienced practitioner.
- Understand how to promote reflection and the effective analysis of information throughout the assessment and planning process and how to record the decision-making process.
- Use supervision to enable supervisees to critically appraise their practice.
- Be aware of how to positively manage the impact of child care work, enabling emotions to be used to enrich thinking and support safe practice.
- Use tools to help staff evaluate and analyse information to inform decision making and risk management.
Core aspects of this model of supervision are:
- Recognition that supervision makes a difference to outcomes
- The importance of the supervisory relationship
- The role of the supervision agreement as a foundation for the relationship
- The interrelationship between feelings thoughts and action
- The role of the supervision cycle in promoting reflective practice, critical thinking and defensible (recorded) decision making.