Supervision

Guide to Supervision in Primary Care

BLMK Primary Care Training Hub have developed a supportive guide to supervision in Primary Care. The guide can be downloaded here A Guide to Supervision in BLMK Primary Care v1.0 and will be updated as and when we receive more information.

Purpose

This information has been summarised from a variety of sources (please see links in document for source material) and is intended as a guide only to help clinicians, practices and PCNs in Primary Care to understand the recommendations for Supervision.

Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that you have checked the most up to date guidance and to ensure that you are meeting the requirements documented in the DES or other profession specific requirements.

CQC

The Care Quality Commission (Health & Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014) remind us that all staff ‘receive such appropriate support, training, professional development, supervision and appraisal as is necessary to enable them to carry out the duties they are employed to perform’.

The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) 2014 Regulations set out a provider’s responsibilities. The CQC’s guidance for providers on meeting the regulations explains that providers are responsible for the staff they ‘employ’. The meaning of ‘employed’ in the regulations is wider than staff directly employed on an employment contract: it means anyone who works for the provider, under its ongoing direction and control. Where we are aware of specific CQC requirements we have included these however please visit the CQC website for the latest / up-to-date information.

Health & Wellbeing Coach Supervision Options for PCNs

This is a supportive document that has been put together to help support PCNs make decisions on how they provide Health & Wellbeing Coach supervision. If you have any comments or queries about this document please contact deimante.sidlauskaite1@nhs.net

Health & Wellbeing Coach supervision options for PCNs

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Clinical Supervision Training

“Supervision is the term used to describe a formal process of professional support and learning which enables practitioners to develop knowledge and competence, assume responsibility for their own practice and enhance consumer protection and the safety of care in complex clinical situations. It is central to the process of learning and to the expansion of the scope of practice and should be a means of encouraging self-assessment and analytic reflective skills.” – RCN, 2002

In this hour long video, Janet Thornley (GPN Strategic Lead of the BLMK Primary Care Training Hub) and Kirsty Shanley (Quality and Differential Attainment Lead, BLMK Primary Care Training Hub), discuss the concept of clinical supervision which provides a safe space for colleagues to come together to learn and reflect.

This video will cover:
– The context of Clinical Supervision and why we are doing it
– What is Clinical Supervision?
– Clinical Supervision theory
– Roles and responsibilities within Clinical Supervision

This video is aimed at all clinical and medical roles in Primary Care in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes who are or will be providing clinical supervision. This includes: GPNs, Clinical Pharmacists, First Contact Physiotherapists, GPs, Paramedics etc. Please note that this video doesn’t cover the specific needs of those completing the Roadmaps to Practice but does compliment alongside the Roadmap supervision.

This video can be watched and accessed at a date and time convenient to you. The link to the recording will be given to you upon completion of this survey. In order to access the training, you will be asked to provide some details such as your name, contact email address and place of work. This is so that the BLMK Primary Care Training Hub can make contact with those who have accessed the training and offer additional support and resources to assist you with providing Clinical Supervision. There is a box you can tick on this form if you would not like us to contact you.

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First Contact Practitioner Roadmap Supervisor Training

For a limited time, we are able to offer a FCP Development Grant of £3,000 to support FCPs through the Roadmap. Please contact hannah.baker11@nhs.net for further details and to apply.

What is a First Contact Practitioner?

A diagnostic clinician in primary care working at master’s level with undiagnosed and undifferentiated diagnoses, managing complexity and uncertainty at the first point of contact who has a minimum of 5 years post-graduate experience.

Interested in becoming a FCP Supervisor?

Criteria for applicants:

A GP*
A First Contact Practitioner who has completed Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the Roadmap. Evidence of this demonstrated by providing completed ‘Checklist for Recognition Processes’ (9.4) and ‘FCP Verification of Evidence Form’ (12.12). Stage 2 Roadmap verification process | Health Education England (hee.nhs.uk)
An Advanced Practitioner who holds recognition with HEE’s Centre for Advancing Practice.
A clinician (e.g. AHP or Nurse) with a postgraduate Masters Degree.

(Note: the directories are not yet active)

*Any Tier 3 GP educators who are recognised by the Quality team do not need to attend the training days, but instead can complete an optional short online resource here

Top up Training Video for GP Educational Supervisors – elearning for healthcare (e-lfh.org.uk)

For those needing to attend training days, please see below current available cohorts. You must be able to attend both dates.

These sessions are out of area however are virtual so open for BLMK to attend. If you do attend, please send a copy of your certificate to hannah.baker11@nhs.net so that we can register your training.