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Safeguarding Supervision in Practice

 

 

Supervision Skills in Safeguarding – Part of the Intercollegiate core skills requirements

This day is about supporting staff when dealing with disclosures and ensuring best practice is complied with for other practitioners within safeguarding supervision frameworks

Course Aims

  • To equip supervisors and front-line clinical staff to create and sustain an effective supervisory framework, which ensures safe, child/adult-centred delivery of safeguarding activities

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  • To be able to know how to deliver and receive supervision within effective models of supervision and /or peer review and be able to recognise the potential personal impact of safeguarding/ child protection work on professionals.

 

Course Objectives

 

  • To Identify and define the purpose of supervision within the safeguarding context
  • Demonstrate understanding of the impact of power, authority, and control within the supervisory relationship
  • explain the different models of supervision and their relationship to practice and safeguarding outcomes
  • Develop and practice supervisory skills
  • Understands the importance and benefits of working in an environment that supports professionals
  • Understands the potential personal impact of safeguarding/child protection work on professionals
  • Apply principles of adult learning to your own supervision practice

 

 

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Safeguarding Supervision in Practice

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Course outline

 

Introduction to the course

 

 

What are the aims of supervision in a safeguarding context?

The Mandate for Safeguarding supervision

What makes supervision in the safeguarding context different?

What are the benefits of supervision for staff, the organisation and service users?

 

The Models of supervision used in safeguarding

 

Roles and responsibilities of supervisor and supervisee

 

The supervision contract

 

 

The content of safeguarding supervision and giving constructive feedback – incudes how to engage the supervisee

 

The supervision cycle: - Focusing on experience

Anxiety in supervision and how to manage this: - includes practice, professional, personal and organisational anxieties

 

Working with complexity – the role of emotions in safeguarding

 

The blocked supervision cycle and how to engage and support supervisees to overcome their blocks (Morrison T (2005) Staff Supervision in Social Care. Brighton)

 

Recording systems

 

The Reflective Cycle: - Focusing on reflection

Analysis of Supervision: - Focusing on analysis

Effective Evaluation

The course is very interactive and based on practice guidance from the Care Quality Commission and The Intercollegiate Document 2014

For Safeguarding Children and Young People

  • The Intercollegiate document; safeguarding children and young people: Roles and Competencies for health care staff. Fourth Edition January 2019
  • Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 (amended 2023)

 For Safeguarding Adults at Risk

  • The Intercollegiate Document for Adults (2024)
  • The Care Act 2014 (amended 2020)