Module 6 Workshop

Effective Supervision

Together the three workshops will include the following topic areas: 

  • The social work model of supervision including 4 areas of supervision and Kolb’s learning cycle
  • Reflective supervision
  • Placing the organisation within the supervision context
  • Supervising the individual
  • Using group supervision
  • Managing competency issues
  • Developing a learning culture through supervision
  • Accountability and quality assurance in supervision
  • Coaching skills in supervision
  • Preparing for supervision
  • understanding your learning style
  • using reflection to promote learning

Supervising effectively

This level is for front line managers who supervise case holding staff. It will concentrate on promoting relational practice and enabling reflective practice within supervision sessions. It will require participants to actively participate in supervision sessions within small groups using a range of skills and techniques.

Download the Supervising Effectively workbook.

How to get the most out of your supervision

This course is aimed at all people who receive supervision as part of their case management requirements. It helps people consider what they value in supervision, how to prepare and manage supervision time, balancing workload management with reflective practice and strategies for ensuring follow up of professional development through mentoring and coaching opportunities. 

Download the Getting the Most Out of Your Supervision workbook.

Using Supervision to enable change

This one day course is for supervisers who wish to support their workers to improve their performance.  The course will examine the blocked patterns of behaviour workers can find themselves stuck in and look at strategies for supporting them to change. 

Download the Using Supervision to Enable Change workbook.

Munro on supervision

Professional supervision is a core mechanism for helping social workers critically reflect on the understanding they form of the family, of considering thier emotional responses and whether this is adversely affecting their reasoning, and for making decisions about how best to help...

Without time and encouragement to stop and review their work, social workers will operate at a primarily intuitive level with the associated risks of bias in their reasoning. (page 53, The Munro Review of Child Protection, Interim report, Jan 2010)