Clinical Supervision

When your day-to-day work includes working with vulnerable, sensitive or complex clients and casework, Clinical Supervision gives you time to reflect.

Support from our peers is vital

But when your day-to-day work includes working with vulnerable, sensitive or complex clients and casework, having that time to reflect with someone who ‘gets it’ is more than vital – it’s a lifeline. And that’s exactly what Clinical Supervision is for our therapists.

For qualified therapists and trainee therapists, Clinical Supervision is a regulatory requirement usually taking place monthly – although more frequently for our trainee therapists. Always undertaken by a therapist who is registered with a professional body such as the BACP, the process adheres to the body’ ethical framework.

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What is clinical supervision?

Clinical supervision is a fantastic tool to support those who work in a helping/support worker role, who have responsibility for vulnerable client groups and is seen as good practice in a lot of organisations. For example, Ofsted recognises that regular supervision for staff is a sign of successful safeguarding arrangements for staff especially pastoral and safeguarding teams. This gives them a space to share their caseload and reflect upon ways of working.

Why clinical supervision?

Well, this work can be emotionally demanding and as a result requires a duty of care to ensure the constant wellbeing of the supervisee. This supervisory space allows them to reflect somewhere safe, explore and consider their casework from all angles, with the supervisor’s role to be on-hand to facilitate and provide a developmental climate with the supervisee’s safety and wellbeing at the centre of all sessions.

What we love about Clinical Supervision is that it becomes more than just reflection, it is a dynamic learning and development process in which both parties grow together. It is a professional partnership where collaborative investigation and reflection provides the basis for change. Both supervisor and supervisee are open to challenge, and feedback is always given in constructive ways.

Qualified therapists may perhaps use the session to explore complex client work or to share emotionally draining work. This will change for the supervisee month-by-month, and it is their choice as to how they utilise the session. Trainee therapists require more regular supervision, and the supervisor will provide a clearly structured and supportive environment with an educative function, sharing knowledge about models and therapeutic techniques. Autonomy will be encouraged, and growth and development acknowledged as the trainee’s confidence develops.

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Fortis is here to support everyone.

When your day-to-day work includes working with vulnerable, sensitive or complex clients and casework, having that time to reflect is more than vital. Reach out to someone who 'gets it' today.

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