Professional Supervision Practice in Health and Social Care

Course Description

Professional Supervision is a legal and regulatory requirement of health and social care settings. This unit covers theories relating to supervision and the purpose and processes of professional supervision, together with performance management and methods of managing and addressing conflict.

Course Objectives

Professional Supervision is a legal and regulatory requirement of health and social care settings. This unit covers theories relating to supervision and the purpose and processes of professional supervision, together with performance management and methods of managing and addressing conflict.

Key Topics

1. LO1: Understand professional supervision in health and social care settings.
2. LO2: Know how to agree on the framework for a professional supervision process.
3. LO3: Know how to provide professional supervision.
4. LO4: Know how to reflect on own practice in professional supervision.

Course Outline

Learning Outcomes

1. LO1 Understand professional supervision in health and social care settings.
2. 1.1 Evaluate theories and models that underpin the practice of professional supervision.
3. 1.2 Explain the legal and regulatory codes of practice that relate to professional supervision.
4. 1.3 Explain how evidence-based practice informs professional supervision.
5. LO2 Know how to agree on the framework for a professional supervision process.
6. 2.1 Explain how to overcome power-imbalance in professional supervision.
7. 2.2 Explain the boundaries and parameters for carrying out supervision with the supervisee.
8. LO3 Know how to provide professional supervision.
9. 3.1 Describe how to provide constructive feedback to the supervisee.
10. 3.2 Describe how conflict can be managed within supervision.
11. 3.3 Analyse methods that can be used to measure performance.
12. 3.4 Explain how to review and agree performance targets.
13. LO4 Know how to reflect on own practice in professional supervision.
14. 4.1 Explain how to use tools to gather feedback on own professional supervision practice.
15. 4.2 Describe how to reflect on feedback to identify changes to be made to own practice.