Children’s Services Supervision Policy

It's for all employees and volunteers.

• All staff, as-and-when workers and volunteers should make sure they have a supervision agreement in place.
• Your supervision doesn’t have to be with your line manager but in most cases, it will be. 
• The supervision session can take the form of a one to one, in person or remotely. It can take place in a group or be given by someone other than your line manager. 
• Some roles will require clinical supervision to make sure that professional standards are being met.
• Supervision must include, among other things, updates on actions from previous meeting review of work, learning and development needs and the discussion of any performance issues. 
• Full-time staff should receive at least 10 sessions a year, with frequency tailored for other types of worker. 

Directors are responsible for ensuring full implementation and compliance of the policy and procedure.

Assistant directors or equivalent are responsible for:

• ensuring that operational managers are fully aware of their role and responsibility in relation to supervision and that supervision is provided in accordance with the policy and procedure
• quality assuring supervision practice through sampling and service quality assessments
• improving supervision practice

Operational managers are responsible for:

• ensuring that service staff and volunteers are fully aware of their role and responsibility in relation to supervision, and that supervision is provided in accordance with the policy and procedure
• quality assuring practice through sampling
• driving improvements in supervision practice

Service employees and volunteers are responsible for:

• ensuring that they receive supervision in line with the policy and procedure and taking action to address this if this is not the case
• ensuring that they provide supervision (if holding a supervisor role) in line with the policy and procedure and taking action to address this if this is not the case