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.

Supervision is...
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confidential
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reflection
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learning
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supportive
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"super"-vision
Supervision is not...
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gossip
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reported to line managers
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snoop-ervision
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assessment
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auditing