Qcf Level 3 Unit 511

Unit 511

Develop professional supervision practice in health and social care or children and young people’s setting.

1.1 Analyse the principles, scope and purpose of professional supervision.

Supervision is an opportunity where supervisees are able to review and reflect on their work in order to do it better. Supervisors bring their actual work practice to another person (individual supervision) and can help review what happened in their own practice in order to learn from that experience. Supervision is for better quality service. In a relationship of trust and transparency, supervisees talk about their work and through reflection and thoughtfulness learn from it and return to do it differently. Supervision is based on the assumption that

The Health and Social Care Act 2008 made every health and social care service in England and Wales legally responsible for making sure it meets new essential standards of quality and safety. Ensuring that staff are supported in their role of providing care and treatment to vulnerable individuals. It states that staff must be properly trained, supervised and appraised. It also ensures that professional development for all staff and CQC requires that staff are supported and codes of practice are followed and supervisions help us to achieve this.

All the supervisions that I conduct are conducted internally but staff do have the opportunity if they feel unsupported or have a grievance to discuss that this can be conducted externally. Ensuring that regular training, support and professional development is not only good practice but a legal requirement and this influences how services are managed.

Below is regulation 18 of the health and social care act that outlines the requirements needed to meet this regulation in the employment of suitable staff and the support they must receive as part of their