| Why participate in a Program of
Professional Supervision? |
| For the worker: |
| Professional Supervision provides
the opportunity to: |
- Get your head above the pace and chaos
- Focus on what is happening in practice
- Reflect on the current work and the social work
role within the organisational context
- Clarify and problem solve issues relating to case
management and counselling practice
- Consider a range of strategies to work effectively
with clients
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| Formal Supervision focuses on four
broad areas: |
Support, encouragement and debriefing
for the worker: Enabling you to deal with work related
stress, difficult and challenging cases and to ensure
you’re on the “right track”.
Reflection of practice issues and therapeutic issues
relating to client: Enabling the possibility of exploring
new and different ways of working with clients and client
groups.
Staff Development: Enabling the identification
of training needs; some of which may be met in supervision.
Organisational development: Enabling you to identify
and communicate improvement goals and provide effective
input into organisational planning. |
| For the Line Manager: |
| Professional Supervision provides: |
- A safe, confidential environment in which staff
can explore and address any issues of concern regarding
their professional practice
- Debriefing for “frontline practitioners”.
Regardless of experience, there is a need to debrief
and “step away” to reflect on the nature
of the relationship with clients, and the issues involved
- Strategies in day to day survival
- Increased confidence
- Injection of focus
- Continual learning and development
- Clarification of the role and its boundaries
- Constructive feed back with regard to progress
of work practice, management of work load
- Increased competence in your work with clients
and within the organisation
- Reduced burnout
- Identification of personal and professional goals
and pathways
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| Input into Organisational Planning
and Development |
| A Feedback Report to the organisation
from Kate may be negotiated within the following parameters: |
- Professional Supervision cannot be treated as a
substitute for, or a direct adjunct to, the organisation's
performance appraisal program
- Feedback will focus on issues relevant to the organisation's
accountability and planning
- Feedback would be with the knowledge and consent
of program participants so as not to compromise the
integrity and confidentiality of the contracted supervisory
relationships
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