Solution Focused

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Solution Focused Supervision Newcastle Gráinne
Fegan
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Newcastle Position

• Thresholds and risk management
• Practitioners requesting Solution Focused
  training and use of Signs of Safety
• Lack of knowledge about roles and
  responsibilities
• Confidence
• Confusion
• Varying levels of supervision
• Limited resources
• Not enough opportunities for learning

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Solution Focused Practise and Signs of Safety
Model

• Project managed approach to implementation and an
  enthusiastic bottom up approach
• Social care and multi agency champions
• Professional or case supervision

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Solution Focused Practise and Signs of Safety
Model

• Common language to rigorously assess risk and
  discuss thresholds
• Development of a learning culture
• An approach to enable workers to develop
  confidence in their own practice
• A way to help workers get unstuck in difficult
  and protracted cases

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SF tools for supervision

• Noticing strengths
• Goals
• Exceptions
• Scaling
• Miracle Question

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INTERESTING QUESTIONS OBSERVATIONS
IDEAS
Supervisor/ group of peers
Practitioner
Workers thinking their way through a case and
developing shared core beliefs, understandings
and thresholds
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SOLUTION FOCUSED SUPERVISION
Appreciative Inquiry
Signs of Safety Consultation
Solution Focused Supervision
Group Supervision
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Appreciative InquiryCooperrider 1980
What really energises people in The organisation
Whats the key vision that motivates people to do
their best?
Where does this show up?
How might people do more of it?
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Solution Focused Reflecting Team-Harry Norman

• Person presents situation
• Each other person in turn asks one clarification
  question plus a follow up if they want
• Team offer compliments
• Members of team, in turn, offer one suggestion
• Person reflects on their latest thinking

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What does it look like?

• One on one SF supervision
• Practitioner Groups held each month-53 cases
  reviewed in October
• All presenting practitioners have scaled higher
  at the end of the session
• Appreciative Inquiry panel held each month to
  identify good practice and share learning across
  services
• Signs of Safety consultations used to help move
  the Team around the Child forward when they are
  stuck or differ on how to move forward

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Case Examples

• An overview of examples where the range of
  approaches have been used

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Benefits

• Common language
• Those skilled in assessment enabling colleagues
• Beginning to develop a learning culture
• Practitioners seeing the benefits of Integrated
  working in a much more tangible way- I can
  help.
• Increased understanding of each others roles and
  responsibilities

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What next?

• Local conference to share practice and develop a
  plan to move forward around supervision
• Development of clear procedures and policies
• Wider training programme and plan to embed
  approach