What’s on offer?
ARC offers Study Days linked to Clinical Supervision.
Study Days include:
Clinical Supervision in SLT: Strengthening your Toolkit is for those who want to strengthen their knowledge and skills as a supervisor or be a more informed supervisee. This study day which focuses on Clinical (aka Professional Supervision) and explores Reflective Cycles, Conversational frameworks, along with Solution Focused and Strengths Based Supervision. You gain a range of techniques to add to your Supervision Toolkit.
Beyond the Toolkit: Advanced Supervision in Real Practice is for those with experience and knowledge of supervising others in their clinical development and practice. The course gives each clinician time and space to focus on their specific needs in supervision. Each attendee will complete a short info sheet about their supervision and the pressures and positives. This will be used by to adapt the course content to ensure these specific aspects in presentation or small group activities
Avoiding Burn-out: Supportive Supervision. This study day focuses on one of the 3 Functions of Supervision (Brigid Procter’s model which has stood the test of time). Restorative Supervision is about resilience and coping with the emotional/stressful aspects of clinical and managerial roles. Sometimes this called Supportive Supervision.
A Study Day for SLTs Supporting Assistants. A focused Study Day exploring the role of the SLT as supervisor, manager, leader when working with Assistant Practitioners. The HEE and RCSLT Competency Profiles are explored. The emphasis is on putting the new framework into practice in a busy workplace within the realities of limited time resource. These is opportunity to share experiences and ideas in small groups.
Peer Supervision workshop :
Exploring the Positives and Pitfalls & Making it Work
The informal, supportive chat about something which has happened at work is one of our strengths as a profession. Endless support is given over a quick chat and a coffee (or alternative). We are good at this in SLT.
This probably doesn’t count as supervision – often because someone is worried or wondering why a situation happened and as a ‘supportive friend’ we are helping them work through feelings soon after something happened and saying – ‘it’s ok’
Or we have a peer supervision relationship with a colleague and it is a great space for sharing expieriences and we think of it as supervision. Yet if we are honest is there any reflection or learning. Is our peer asking us curious questions and enabling us to see different perspectives? Or are we taking this role so seriously that we are ‘over asking’ questions?
Being aware of reflective cycle and having ideas for curious questions can transform a conversation into a guided conversation and … voila …into supervision. Utilising the support/challenge matrix and being aware of your own comfort zone and easing out of it to be an effective peer supervisor.
Peer supervision can be successful for 1 to 1 and groups but there needs to be an element of structure.
Further Information/ Booking
Wider Options
Individuals
Training can sometimes be offered individually if calendar/capacity allows. An individual course gives you a fast track to skills when you don’t want to wait for the next scheduled course.
Speech & Language Therapy Training & Development 