Safeguarding Supervision: Organisational Processes and Practicalities

Duration: 13 hours, over 2 days; Accreditation: 12 CPD
Costs for in-house courses: Face to face maximum 14 - £3600 plus vat

Safeguarding Supervision in Practice – Part of the Intercollegiate core skills requirements Level 5 - Designated professionals should attend a minimum of 24 hours of education, training and learning over a three-year period. This should include leadership, appraisal, supervision training and the context of other professional’s work.

This two-day programme is based on the Intercollegiate Competencies at Level 5 and the two days focus on both individual and group safeguarding supervision practices. The Intercollegiate document at level 5 requires that Specialist roles – designated professionals for safeguarding “know how to provide, support and ensure safeguarding appraisal and appropriate supervision for colleagues across healthcare services”.

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Safeguarding Supervision: Organisational Processes and Practicalities


Accredited by:CPD

Intercollegiate Competencies covered: -

To know how to provide, support and ensure safeguarding appraisal and appropriate supervision for colleagues across healthcare services.
To be able to provide clinical supervision, appraisal, and support for named professionals.

Course Aims

To equip supervisors to create & sustain an effective supervisory framework, which ensures safe, person centred delivery of safeguarding activities.

Course Objectives

  • Consider within the organisational structure & competence matrix.

  • Identify & define the purpose of supervision, with particular reference to assessing risk in safeguarding work.

  • Understanding legislation & guidance

  • Apply a ‘Think Family’ approach to the supervisory process, ensuring a child focused approach as appropriate.

  • To provide a collaborative approach to learning & reflecting on practice to bring about new insights & learning.

  • Apply principles of adult learning to supervisory practice to strengthen reflective practice.

  • To understand the dynamics of how groups function & the stages they move through including power imbalance

    effects.

  • How to deal with the challenges that can arise within group supervision & how to address them.

    The supervision course will consist of a one day skills awareness and one day embedding structures and group facilitation skills.

    For Safeguarding Children and Young People

  • ü  TheIntercollegiatedocument;safeguardingchildrenandyoungpeople:RolesandCompetenciesforhealthcare staff. Fourth Edition January 2019

  • ü  WorkingTogethertoSafeguardChildren2018

  • ü  NationalCompetenceFrameworkforSafeguardingChildren;LearntoCareandBournemouthUniversity2014

  • ü  SkillsforCareandHealth:CoreCompetenciesforHealthCaresupportworkersandAdultSocialCareworkersin

England DOH 2015 (NHS England)