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| Programme title: | Clinical Supervision |
| Apply: | direct to the University via the NHS Business Unit |
| Start (pt): | October |
| Mode: | part-time |
| Duration: | 2 semesters |
| Location: | Hospital Site |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health & Social Sciences |
The course leader is Dr Christopher Johns, who has researched and written extensively on clinical supervision and reflective practice, and practices clinical supervision across diverse health care settings.
Clinical supervision [or guided reflection] offers health care practitioners an opportunity for taking responsibility for developing and sustaining competence in their clinical or leadership roles. Being an effective clinical supervisor requires a set of skills that can only be learnt through experience.
As such, the course has been designed to facilitate reflection by putting the student into multiple practice situations of supervising others or being supervised [both individual and group situations].
Clinical supervision is established within health care practice as an opportunity for practitioners to learn through experience to develop and sustain effective practice, and as a quality measure within the broad remit of Clinical Governance to assure standards of care.
This unit adopts a practical approach to enable practitioners to develop supervision skills, to appreciate different approaches and styles to supervision and the pragmatics of creating the conditions of practice whereby supervision can flourish.
The unit utilises innovative approaches to clinical development that have been designed and tested through research programmes [Including the 9 step model].
The unit is practical to enable practitioners to develop clinical supervision skills. Theory is linked to this practice through-out the unit, to give theoretical substance to practice.
The unit is delivered over 12 study sessions for a maximum of 16 practitioners.
Without doubt, being an effective clinical supervisor is of great benefit to organisations keen to implement clinical supervision. Most job descriptions for senior nurses will include the ability to give clinical supervision.
Your learning will be supported through a student centred work based learning approach. The unit is evidence based and related to current local and national agenda’s. There will be opportunities for you to engage in a variety of learning experiences. In this way you will be encouraged to take back to your own practice area the key learning outcomes of the unit. This process will be supported by lecturer facilitation, including the delivery of key presentations around the learning outcomes, as well as specialist sessions and the opportunity to develop key skills in a controlled environment, where appropriate. You will also be required to plan how to meet the unit learning outcomes, in theory and practice, relating them to your own practice environment through the completion of the required assignments. Additionally your learning will be supported via tutorials, group work, E-learning via BREO and E-learning library resources. You will be able to bring your reflections on experiences in practice to enable integration of theory to practice.
A major part of the learning experience will occur through self directed study, this requires time to reflect, analyse and evaluate experiences from theory and practice, including the client’s journey through care.
The students undertake two assignments:
1. Reflect on being supervised
2. Reflect on an on-going supervision relationships in terms of monitoring the practitioner’s development and critique the supervision relationship in terms of its effectiveness.
Aims and Objectives
* To appreciate the clinical supervision agenda
* To develop clinical supervision competence in both individual and group supervision situations
* To become a reflective practitioner
* To evaluate the effectiveness of the clinical supervision process and outcomes
* To adopt a pragmatic approach to ensure clinical supervision can be accommodated in meaningful ways within the student’s practice environment
On successful completion of the unit, students will be able:
1. To effectively contract a supervision relationship
2. Critically review different approaches and models of clinical supervision
3. Review the efficacy of supervisory relationship in enabling supervisee development
4. Review the supervision relationship in terms of practitioner development
5. Reflect on the pragmatics of supervision within the organisation and critically review the conditions under which supervision can flourish
Bond M and Holland S (1998) Skills of clinical supervision for nurses. The Open University Press, Buckingham.
This course module is available to health care practitioners who have completed or working to complete level 2 credit.
It is expected that practitioners have arranged the support of their health care organisation to complete the practical aspects of this course.
Contact NHS Business Unit for fees.
Contact NHS Business Unit for dates or see unit delivery schedule below.
For further information concerning this course, contact Dr Christopher Johns.
T: 01582 743834
M: 07952 761646
E: chris.johns@beds.ac.uk
How to apply:
Please contact the NHS Business Unit or download an application form from the website.
E: nhs-business-unit@beds.ac.uk
T: 01582 743048
F: 01582 743704
