Supervision

The British Psychological Society (BPS) summarises supervision as … a psychological process that enables a focus on personal and professional development and that offers a confidential and reflective space for the supervisee to consider their work and their responses to it.

Supervision focusses on establishing a psychologically safe place either individually or in a group, where the supervisee/s can feel respected and heard. Within the space there will be opportunities to;

• Reflect on work-related experiences, and the bilateral impact these may have on your emotional wellbeing.
• Increase confidence and a sense of empowerment in relation to your own professional development.
• Consider your own resilience, and what might contribute towards strengthening this.
• Become more effective person-centred practitioners, positively impacting the work you do with children, young people and their families.

Direct supervision for staff and services, for example:

• 1:1 supervision for individual members of staff, i.e., headteacher/teaching staff.
• Group supervision for staff members, i.e., pastoral support teams.
• ELSA and trauma aware ELSA supervision.
• Trauma informed schools UK (TISUK) supervision.
• Supervision related to individual events/circumstances, i.e., critical incidents.
• Solution orientated approaches, i.e., solution circles.

Training or bespoke packages to support services with their peer supervision processes. This would enable a setting to develop and embed supervisory processes within their systems, without the need for ongoing external support.

Our clinical supervisors' experience enables them to support a broad range of professionals inside and outside of the education sector. 

Please email the Psychology and Therapeutic Services team at psychology&therapeuticservices@suffolk.gov.uk to discuss your supervision needs further. 

• Supervision: A form of support within schools and education settings (PowerPoint, 1.2MB).
• Education Support, supporting teachers and education staff
• Free webinar: Reflective Supervision in Schools, from Trauma Informed Schools UK
• Guide to supporting staff wellbeing in school | School staff mental health and wellbeing | Teacher mental health | Anna Freud Centre
• Supervision: A form of support within schools and education settings
• Supervision for teachers: why it's important and what EPs can do - edpsy.org.uk
• Teacher Wellbeing Index: mental health & wellbeing research (educationsupport.org.uk)
• Wellbeing: why don’t schools offer staff supervision? | Tes Magazine
• Why supervision is a must - for teachers at all levels | Tes Magazine