Supervising to Improve Performance for managers and supervisors adult social care 25/26

TARGET GROUP

This course is targeted to all managers and supervisors in adult services and applies to all levels of management (ATM, T/M, HoS and specialist roles), who work for the London Borough of Sutton. 

Please note: 

• All participants must attend the full two day course consecutively, for the training to be registered as completed. 
•  Refresher training will be needed within three years.

AIM

The aims of this session are: 

• To provide participants with the knowledge, understanding, skills and confidence to deliver effective services to the most vulnerable adults and their families in the community. 
• To develop and improve performance through individual supervision, including group supervision approaches.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By attending this course, participants will have:

• An improved knowledge and understanding of what constitutes effective supervision and its relationship to safe practice and positive outcomes for service users.
• An improved knowledge and skills to apply the 4x4x4 (integrated) model of supervision and; be able to demonstrate how it can assist in understanding the functions of supervision and its impact of supervision on others within the system.
• An improved knowledge and understanding of how past experience of supervision can impact on the supervisory relationship.
• An increased knowledge and understanding of the importance of developing and reviewing the supervisory relationship, and the role of the agreement in promoting anti oppressive practice within supervision.
• An increased knowledge and understanding about the role of supervision throughout the stages of professional development from newly qualified to experienced practitioner.
• An increased knowledge and understanding about the importance of recording supervision.
• An increased knowledge and understanding about the importance of the authoritative supervisory style in promoting good outcomes through supervision.
• An ability to develop skills and confidence in the use of the supervision cycle, and better understand how it can be used as a model to facilitate effective supervision.
• An increased knowledge and understanding about the impact of anxiety and how emotions may impact on staff, critical thinking and decision making.
• An increased knowledge and understanding about the importance of the positive expectations model when working to improve practice.
• An increased knowledge and understanding about the factors that might affect performance.
• An increased knowledge and understanding about the possible function of blocks to learning and development of the individual concerned.
• An ability to apply authority appropriately within supervision and avoid setting people up to fail
• An ability to apply strategies for addressing poor performance. 
• An ability to apply the LB Sutton supervision policy in the supervisory role