Introduction
Supervision is an essential part of learning in healthcare, to develop and maintain competence and support development for practitioners.
The event will be equivalent to 2.3/4 hrs of CPD.
Content
The workshop will distinguish between clinical, professional and managerial supervision, and the needs and functions of each. The main focus of the workshop will be clinical supervision. It will allow participants to reflect on their own experiences as a supervisor and supervisee, and consider how to use supervision most effectively from both perspectives. This includes highlighting the core principles of supervision and how we can meet these in flexibly rather than rigidly. Common difficulties with, and potential solutions for, supervision will be discussed. The need to develop cultural competence in our work and how this is woven in to supervision is considered.
Learning Objectives
• To understand the functions of supervision
• To know what makes clinical supervision more effective
• To leave with a plan for the next steps for your supervision
Training Modalities
Didactic content, Q&A, polls, reflective exercises
Key References
NHS Employers clinical supervision models summary https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/clinical-supervision-models
About the presenter
Nick is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT)and University of Sussex, and a member of the Wellcome Anxiety Disorders Group at University of Oxford. Nick is a BABCP-accredited practitioner, supervisor and trainer.
Gemma is the Professional Lead Occupational Therapist in West Sussex (SPFT). She has over 25 years’ experience of supervising a range of staff across mental health services and is an accredited ILM coach.
Lisa is Professional Lead Nurse in West Sussex (SPFT). She has 30 years’ experience as a registered mental health nurse. She has extensive experience supervising nursing staff across a wide range of roles.
Who should attend
This workshop is for practitioners working in secondary care adult mental health services. It will be appropriate for practitioners of all professional backgrounds. It is focused on registered staff but will be relevant still for unregistered staff.
Low Intensity clinical contact hours survey - BABCP Low Intensity Special Interest Group
Please click below if you are interested in contributing to the survey.
The BACP Low Intensity SIG are interested in the impact of clinical contact hours on Low Intensity/Wellbeing Practitioner wellbeing. This questionnaire contains six multi-choice questions and a free text box for you to share your experiences. The answers to these questions will help the BABCP SIG plan how to meet CPD topics and other developments within the SIG. The SIG hope to produce a write up of the answers to this questionnaire to be shared with SIG members and to be used in training.
This FREE conference is for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners working in Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression services and is brought to you by Bespoke Mental Health in collaboration with the NHS National PWP Leads Network.


