511- Develop Professional Supervision Practice in Health and Social Care or Children and Young People Settings

Social Care Supervision refers to the strategies and body of service done within a social care plant in order to improve on the level of performance of the social care workers. Supervision is a critical idea in any social or structured society in which services of high quality and demand are being offered. Many social health care centers in the world are in need of equitable service delivery programs that will oversee a fruitful service reception by the clients. As such, Social Care Supervision refers to this body of knowledge and strategies used to support and instill hard work, quality delivery of products and services, together with a continuum of good delivery of goods and services to the clients (Gray & Brown 2010, p. 45-85).

My supervision is always held in a confidential setting, between myself and my Manager. My Manager records details of what has been discussed, targets identified, and achievement target dates to be met by me and my Manager. This is my personal development plan, and helps me to record training received, training identified, and knowledge gained. My supervision is my opportunity to discuss issues I am concerned about. Sometimes prior to my supervision, I write down notes on issues I want to raise, so that I do not forget whilst in my supervision.

The key principle of supervision is for the worker to be able to carry out their job role as effectively as possible. Enhancing their understanding of their own practise.

As a home based child-minder the safe supervision of children both in and out of the home is ultimately my complete and main responsibility. When considering the level of supervision required it is important to remember that ’supervision’ can be interpreted into 3 different level types- I.e. the depth of supervision that you adapt, and that safety requirements outlined by Ofsted determines supervision to be adapted at all times of children in my care primarily in the following activity areas;

1.2-Describe with examples the importance of all staff consistently and fairly applying boundaries and rules for children and young people’s behaviour in accordance with policies and procedures of setting.

1. Understand the policy and procedures for supervising children and young people on journeys, visits and activities outside of the setting.

Consider the responsibilities and limits of learning support staff in ensuring the safety of children and young people in a school, in terms of:

Unit 516 Understand Safeguarding of children and young people (for those working in the adult sector) P5

1 Understand the Policies, Procedures and Practices for safe working with children and young adults

|Supervisors all have personal habits which lean towards some of the roles or focus's must choose the interaction required for the supervisees learning|

Providers should ensure that all staff are aware of the need to maintain privacy and confidentiality.

Supervision has been defined as: “an accountable process which supports, assures and develops the knowledge, skills and values of an individual, group or team. The purpose is to improve the quality of their work to achieve agreed objectives and outcomes. In social care and children’s services this should optimise the capacity of people who use services to lead independent and fulfilling lives”. (National Occupational Standard on Supervision developed by Skills for Care and Development and CWD

Legislations and procedures are put into place to protect the welfare of children, schools and childcare settings. Adults who work with children will need to understand about current legislations and familiarise themselves with them. Legislations are reviewed constantly so it is important to keep up to date with reading the relevant publications.

In my organization, we have no formal implementation of evidence based practice. We have policies and procedures that guide general practices with updates occurring from time to time. Within my organization we have over twenty different facilities, each one is governed by the standard policy and procedure, but has autonomy for developing and implementing what they think is the best practices. On a monthly bases we all meet and at times will share some “best practices” with each

Evidenced based research is defined as continually using current best evidence-based research when decisions have to be made about the patients care or health care (Melnyk, & Fineout-Overholt, 2005). There is a clinical/medical question that needs to be looked into. The question is researched by searching for information on that question paying close attention to the important reviews and evaluations of the information given (Melnyk, & Fineout-Overholt, 2005). This requires that you review more than one study in order to get reliable and more dependable results which can lead to a better understanding of the research question (Melnyk, & Fineout-Overholt, 2005). One example of evidenced-based research: A health care professional suggests that a patient who has recently had stomach bleeding take acetaminophen to treat his arthritis pain. The health care professional has done research on this and research has shown that acetaminophen has less risk for stomach bleeds than most of the other regular pain relievers (Ahrq.gov, n. d.). The health professional has performed evidenced-based research.