Supervision

Over the course of your career, you may be expected to supervise or support colleagues and students. Alternately, you may receive supervision to develop your own professional skills and competence in a certain area.

Whether you are providing or receiving supervision, it’s important that you can do this safely and effectively, and in a way that enables you to meet your intended learning objectives. 

These pages outline some of the benefits and outcomes that supervision can have on your professional development and provide some top tips on how you can effectively approach supervision in your practice.

Supervision can also help you reflect on your practice, which plays a key part in professional development and service improvement. More information about reflective practice and how supervision can support this can also be found on our reflective practice pages.

Key points to consider

• Supervision is a core component of maintaining safe and effective practice in all sectors and settings and at all levels of practice​.
• There are different types of supervision​.
• Active learning and continuing professional development activities are required to be an effective supervisor and supervisee​.
• Some registrants may be supervised by people from outside of their origin profession​.
• Supervision may look different across different professions.

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