Supervision

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Supervision Support

• Jackie OSullivan FCIPD

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What is supervision?

• Management Supervision
• Clinical Supervision
• Support is essential in both areas

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Is there a difference?

• Management Supervision a formal monitoring
  process that insists on good practice
• Clinical Supervision a more enabling process
  supporting good practice

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Management Supervision

• Responsible for the general overseeing of the
  staff members performance, attendance, holiday
  entitlement, appraisal and career development etc
• Regular support through 1-1sessions, half
  yearly/annual appraisal, work commitment/load and
  on-going issues.

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Clinical Supervision

• Clinical supervision is an exchange between
  practising professionals to enable the
  development of professional skills Butterworth
  (1995)

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Benefits

• Clinical supervision is undertaken to improve
  patient care
• Support mechanism for the clinician
• Opportunity to increase knowledge and investigate
  solutions
• Further opportunity for reflective practice

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Barriers

• Time
• Lake of knowledge
• Individual resistance
• Workload factors
• Authoritarian

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Action Plan

• Do you have a policy/protocol for supervision
• Do you have a structure in which supervision can
  thrive
• Do you staff trained to enable them to supervise
  others