Supervising to Improve Performance for managers and supervisors children's social care 24/25

TARGET GROUP

This course is targeted to all managers and supervisors in children's services, and applies to all levels of management, 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. 
• You will also need to have completed the 3-day restorative practice training to apply best practice in supervision. 
• 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 children and families in the community. 
• To understand theory, practice approaches and models, and tools for developing and improving performance through individual supervision, including group supervision approaches.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of 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 models 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 increased 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.