Supervision skills training for Advanced HIPs nomination form October 2024
Funded training opportunity
Te Pou is pleased to announce a funded training opportunity that is being made available to HIPs who are employed in a HIP role as part of the integrated primary mental health and addiction (IPMHA) programme and have been endorsed as an advanced HIP. Advanced HIPs provide shadowing to HIP trainees as part of the HIP training programme.
About the course
The training is supervision skills for advanced HIPs and 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 practitioners working in an advanced HIP role that currently, or will be able to, provide professional supervision as part of their role. This supervision will be for HIPs and/or other roles within the IPMHA services in their organisation and/or district. There is no requirement by Te Pou for advanced HIPs to be available to provide supervision to other districts, or nationally, unless agreed between organisations or collaboratives.
Course details
Supervision Skills for Health & Social Service Professionals
This course provides an excellent introduction to supervision and the tools and skills needed to enable advanced HIPs to supervise others within the workforce. It provides information on the purpose, process, and practice of supervision along with some very practical tools to ensure participants build competence and confidence in those being supervised.
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 mental health 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.
The course dates are:
Session 1 – Tuesday 22 October 2024 – 9:00am to 4:15pm
Session 2 – Tuesday 29 October 2024 - 9:00am to 4:15pm
Session 3 – Tuesday 26 November 2024 - 9:00am to 11:00am
The course is delivered via Zoom. Participants must be available for these three separate days without interruptions, have access to their own device with reliable internet and have approval from their manager to attend.
This is a Level 5 NZQA course – with 5 credits (micro credentialed). There is a commitment to a practical assignment and readings. The peer supervision component is a tool kit for peer supervision which is an effective model of support.
