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What is Professional Supervision?

Professional supervision is regular, protected time for facilitated in-depth reflection on complex issues influencing clinical practice.

The aim is to enable the supervisee to achieve, sustain and creatively develop a high quality of practice. Bond and Holland (2010)

Professional supervision is meeting with your supervisor on a regular basis usually once a month to discuss and reflect on any issue of your daily work life and career, colleagues, team dynamics, organisational ethics. Setting goals for professional development and acknowledging your achievements are a priority also.


The most valued aspect of supervision, however, is learning. Learning from your work, your thoughts, actions, and colleagues and especially your resolutions and outcomes. Becoming self-aware when you reflect on your practice enhances your wellbeing and allowing you to be the best you can be.

“Learning is experience, Everything else is just information”.
-Albert Einstein.
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Supervision is...

  • confidential

  • reflection

  • learning

  • supportive

  • "super"-vision

Supervision is not...

  • gossip

  • reported to line managers

  • snoop-ervision

  • assessment

  • auditing

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