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Why Professional Supervision?

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.
- Maya Angelou

Benefits to the Employee

  • Managing ethical issues within your profession

  • Discussing organisation process

  • Self-identification of professional and competency skills

  • Reflection of clinical work

  • Increase job satisfaction

Now, more than ever nurses, teachers, lawyers and police and employees within the helping professions need support in their employment. We are seeing an increase in burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, exhaustion, bullying and work overload. This depletes our energy and motivation and while we see well-being is built into policies, it is not embedded into practice.

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When supervision is welcomed into your workplace/practice, it can provide a valued service to support professionals who are working in stressful situations/conditions especially when they are trying to do well where support and recognition is limited.

 

Feeling appreciated at work is important. You have worked hard to get to where you are now. Attending regular professional supervision will be a stepping stone towards your professional wellbeing, keeping your focus on your career goals. Remember the love of what you do and why you chose this career.

Benefits to the Employer

Encouraging your employee(s) to attend supervision, sends a clear message to them that you acknowledge their practice and wellbeing. As an organisation you will want them to be creative and forward thinking while maintaining their competencies, adhering to policy and procedure and work as a team. Professional supervision ensures your employee is “up to date” and working to the best outcomes for your organisation while also meeting their career goals.

Other benefits:

  • Robust engagement and ownership of their work

  • Competencies and audits maintained

  • Employee retention

‘Pit head time’ was an expression from British miners in the 1920’s, who requested that they be given time, in the boss’s time, to wash off the grime from the coal mines, instead of doing it at home.

Supervision should predominantly be in work time for those who work at the coal face and management, to"wash off" of the issues that arise for you. It is one way your organisation can acknowledge the work you do, promote wellbeing, and value you as an employee.

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