Key Features
Profession-specific supervision sessions
A blend of in-person and online teaching
Teaching from industry-experienced professionals
Designed with the needs of practitioners in mind
Talking Therapies Supervisor Training
Key Information
Programme Type
Short Course
Delivery
Blended learning
Award
Six days across 4-5 months
Cost
NHS-E funded/self funded
Next Start Date
Please contact us for our next start date
Course Overview
This six-day course has been designed with Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWP) and Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapists (CBT Therapists/High Intensity Therapists) in mind. With the guidance of experienced subject experts, you can build your knowledge and confidence in a wide variety of areas. This course is also suitable for the supervision of other low intensity practitioners, such as Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWP).
Across the course you will cover areas such as: forming, maintaining, and ending collaborative supervisory alliances; professional and interpersonal supervisory skills; structuring supervision sessions, including contracting and supervision models; assessment of supervisee competence and facilitation of competence development; Roth and Pilling supervision competencies; self-evaluation of competence as a Clinical Supervisor; using supervision of supervision and developing reflective practice; and identifying and overcoming problems in supervision.
How You Study
To help ensure the course is accessible to you as possible, there is a blend of face-to-face and online learning. Face-to-face learning will primarily take place on our Brayford Pool campus in the heart of Lincoln.
A minimum of 80% attendance is required to pass the course, and it is assumed that once your place has been confirmed you are able to meet this requirement.
As part of the course, you can participate in a half-day of meta-supervision provided by the course team, and half a day of independent study in order to complete the course assignment.
Supervision: Adherence and Guidance Evaluation
The course utilises the Supervision: Adherence and Guidance Evaluation (SAGE). This allows an observer to rate the competence of supervision, especially CBT supervision, using a widely established competence rating scale (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986).
Consent was gained by the authors to adapt the SAGE: Short Version (2017) for use in assessing competence in different types of low intensity supervision. The SAGE marking record has therefore been adapted by Priestley, Giles, and Bradbury (2022) for use specifically within case management supervision (CMS). The aim was to complement the original SAGE: Short Version (2017) which can be used within clinical skills supervision (CSS).
Entry Requirements 2024-25
Entry Requirements
It is recommended that attendees have a minimum of two years of qualified experience of the interventions they are supervising. However, no supervisor in NHS Talking Therapies should have less than 12 months qualified experience.
Learners must be actively supervising in service to successfully complete the course, and will be asked to confirm that they will be doing this.
Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapists attending must be accredited by the British Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Psychotherapies.
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners should be registered with the British Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Psychotherapies or the British Psychological Society.
How you are assessed
You will be assessed through a portfolio piece which is submitted on completion of the course. This portfolio will be evidence of your supervisory experience and reflective practice.
Funding
This course is usually funded by NHS England, however a self-funding option may be available. Please contact psychsportwellbeingadmin@lincoln.ac.uk for more information.
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