Peer supervision training for IPMHA support workers

Te Pou is pleased to announce a funded professional development opportunity for support workers who are employed within an IPMHA-funded role in primary care.

Peer supervision skills for IPMHA support workers is being delivered by Aly McNicoll from The New Zealand Coaching and Mentoring Centre, an expert in coaching and mentoring. This programme of learning is for support workers that are either currently or will be able to provide supervision.

This supervision training aims to inform support workers on models of supervision with an emphasis on peer supervision.

Supervision skills for health and social service professionals

This NZQA micro-credential level 5, 5-credits course, with an emphasis on peer supervision, has been adapted for the support worker workforce in primary care.

This two-day course with a follow-up session is delivered via Zoom with everyone on their own device.

Course dates

Course 1 - full

Course 2 - dates to follow

Participants must be available for all three sessions without interruption, have access to their own device with reliable internet and have approval from their manager to attend.

Course content

This course provides an excellent introduction to peer supervision and the tools and skills needed to enable support workers to supervise others within the workforce.

It provides everything people need to know about the purpose, process and practice of peer supervision, along with some very practical tools to ensure they build both the competence and confidence of those they supervise.

By the end of this training participants will be able to:

• define supervision, the roles and responsibilities of the supervisor
• discuss the challenges for supervising within the IPMHA workforce
• discuss models of supervision
• discuss cultural safety in supervision
• establish supervision relationships
• develop supervision contracts and negotiate goals for individual supervision sessions
• use 7 key skills for supervision conversations
• use a 4-step model for supervision conversations
• provide feedback on practice
• use a range of tools to facilitate supervisee learning and reflection
• manage a one-to-one supervision session
• discuss ethical issues relevant to supervising in the sector
• participate in peer supervision as both a supervisor and a supervisee
• use peer supervision tools
• facilitate peer group supervision processes.