MEDICINE AND HEALTH

Professional Supervision Practice for Health & Social Care

Professional Supervision Practice for Health & Social Care

Introduction

Supervision is a profession focused on evaluation, improvement and development of knowledge, skills and behaviours of supervised in the exercise of their profession. The practice of supervision, like that of any other activity professional cannot be improvised. Professional supervision comes in many forms. In some cases, institutions / agencies entrusted to a person internally or externally mandated to oversee their employees. If the employer does not provide supervision, sometimes social workers seek a supervisor in independent practice. Supervision joined both professional and administrative concerns. In this paper a detailed reflection upon supervision in health and social care at disabled people residential home setting is provided.

Purpose of professional supervision in health and social care

Principles, Scope and Purpose of Professional Supervision

Supervision is a set of activities of a person to direct the work of a group of people, in order to make them achieve maximum efficiency and mutual satisfaction. Professional Supervision is a systematic process control under which monitoring, assessment, guidance, advice and training and administrative education, holding a person in relation to other, on which has a certain authority within the organization to achieve improved staff performance, increase competition and ensure quality services.

The four main objectives of supervision are:

a. Education and training.

b. Offering quality services.

c. Professional socialization.

d. Raising the theoretical and practical actions.

What is important to start a professional supervision is to be set clearly what is intended to do and what the priorities that wants to get through a specific monitoring. Usually, when initiating supervision, both organizations and workers raised the achievement of basic objectives of a particular type and, depending on these objectives, the monitoring can be defined in either group.

Theories and models of professional supervision

Psychodynamic Models

This model provides dynamics principles to understand the issue faced by workers and its constructs. The construction of meaning in the process of supervision, allowing knowledge and building a therapeutic model based on psychoanalytic theory, detection and contrast successes and failures that lead to quality practice, through the relationship with one that supports this construction of knowledge in an ethical and regulates the formation of future therapist.

Cognitive/Behavioural Models

Knoff (1986, pp. 529-545) has suggested that behavioural orientation to supervision is underlying by certain assumptions. These assumptions include the delivered service can easily be recognized, observed and can be linked to the effectiveness and value of the recognized worker. In this model the supervision has several goals. Supervisor has to develop a set of conditions in order to help psychologists to adopt a specific behavioural philosophy and change, application of basic principles and also help developing the ability to understand the behavioural problems through analytical methods (Follette and Callaghan, 1995).

Developmental Model

Any systematic attempt to improve practice, beliefs and professional knowledge professional for the purpose of increasing the quality and personal satisfaction is called professional development. The underlying assumption of this model is on-going growth. Another assumption says that learning is a life-long ...