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Supervision Policy Analysis

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If your organisation has a supervision policy, it means you are expected to undertake this aspect of staff development within a set of guidelines. The supervision process will have a structure which will be set out in your organisations supervision policy. The areas covered by the policy may include the following: Confidentiality in supervision. All issues discussed in supervision are strictly confidential. The supervisee should feel confident that discussions with you will remain confidential. If, for example, they discuss the need to update their skills in a certain area, this would not be made known to other members of staff. However there are some legal and professional requirements, such as mandatory reporting, which override a supervisee's right to …show more content…

• Providing effectively the four key elements of supervision • Ensuring the organisation's legal, ethical and professional standards are met • Ensuring that, where a change in line manager occurs, a handover process is arranged between all parties concerned • Undertaking appropriate training about supervision and the appraisal process which is relevant to their needs and development as managers • Ensuring that issues relating to diversity are addressed constructively and positively and provide an opportunity for staff to raise issues about their experience of diversity • Achieving a balance between service objectives and the needs of an individual for personal development The supervisee is responsible

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