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G.I.S.SOFQT provides a Guided Independent Study and Support (G.I.S.S.) package to trainers, coaches, mentors, facilitators, clinical educators, clinicians and mediators, in fact anyone who:
Trainers, coaches, mentors, facilitators, clinical educators, clinicians and mediators who don't regularly review and update their skills can find themselves repeating the same practices again and again without recognising if quality improvements are needed. OFQT is qualified to support both the well established and experienced professional practitioner as well as the novice using our own approach to Supervision.
What is Supervision? Often considered akin to mentoring, coaching and counselling Supervision, and its Clinical counterpart, Clinical Supervision have been used in the health and social care sector for many years. It helps the professional clinican reflect upon their behaviour and practice and look for ways to address quality improvements. It is now becoming more widely used to underpin company coaching and mentoring programmes across a wider brief than before and across the public and now private sectors. Supervision utilises many of the principles and methods from coaching, mentoring and counselling focusing heavily on the use of reflective practice.
What is reflective practice? This is a method used during Supervision to help individuals understand more about their own actions and the effect these have on others and enables the practitioner to take ownership of a time-limited improvement plan. The method is used by counsellors, coaches, mentors with their own target group and clients. Whilst business is starting to realise the limitations of coaching and the pressures for the internal coach, they are now becoming interested in using this method as part of a wider quality assurance/strategic learning plan.
What are the benefits of Supervision to the trainer? For the individual trainer, it provides a confidential, non-judgemental opportunity to deal with difficult issues, improve their training delivery, grow in confidence and develop a wider range of learning competence. For the service directors / company managers it means that the time their staff spend away from the business on training programmes becomes more effective with greater impact once they return. For the organisation unsafe working practices and risks are identified and assessed at an early stage. For the wider training, learning and networking community, it means improved standards of training delivery through consistency and quality.
So if you are a coach, can you also do Supervision? Not necessarily, of course many can and do, however, there are limitations to recognise and a sometimes blurred tightrope between each of these professional disciplines. According to a report by the Association for Coaching, their findings from the second survey into Coach/Mentor Supervision (CMS) revealed that 71% of respondents now implement some kind of supervisory strategy in their day to day practice, an increase of 23% since the first survey was conducted in 2005. Our OFQT Supervisors are also qualified counsellors. They hold a Certificate in Counselling and Diploma in Individual and Group Supervision and have BACP accreditation. This means that they can work safely with a wide range of learning professionals including those facing extremely challenging situations. We are also able to offer Clinical Supervision to practising clinicians and other Clinical Supervisors as we are care competent with over 30 years of Primary and Community healthcare experience, and use theoretical approaches such as Gestalt, Humanistic, Person-centred, TA and Transpersonal. CONTACT US TODAY for an initial discussion
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