NEW Diploma in Supervision
Duration: 7 months (1 Saturday per week, term-time only)
Next course begins: September 2024
Suitable for: Qualified professionals across the helping professions, e.g.: counsellors, pastoral staff, social care workers.
Entry requirements:
– Minimum 450 hours of counselling/psychotherapy or related practice
– Minimum two years’ post-qualifying experience
– Registered Member of BACP or equivalent professional body, adhering to an ethical framework/code of ethics (e.g., UKCP, COSRT, NCS, BABCP, HCPC, or BPC)
– Adequate supervision arrangements and professional indemnity insurance
– Ability to manage risk through previous safeguarding and risk-management training
– Experience in online and phone therapy
– Personal statement demonstrating suitability and readiness for the supervisor role
– Professional reference(s) from supervisor and/or line manager (minimum two years of professional acquaintance)
– Personal statement of suitability and readiness for the supervisor role
– Professional Reference(s) from own supervisor and/or line manager (where applicable); referees should have known the applicant for a minimum of two years in a professional capacity and must not be a spouse, partner or relative.
Course content:
The Core course will offer a mixture of instructive, experiential and practical activities, in accordance with the BACP Supervision Competence Framework (2021) and the BACP Counselling and Psychotherapy Supervision Training Curriculum (2021)
Core subject areas:
Ethical and professional practice in supervision; Working with equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI); The theory of supervision; Beginnings and endings; Establishing and maintaining the supervisory relationship; Facilitating the supervision process; Responding to the individual needs of the supervisee; Adapting supervision to the developmental stage of the supervisee; Relational dynamics in supervision; Working with conflicts, challenges and ruptures
Additional/CPD modules:
– Online and phone supervision (3 day module)
– Working creatively in supervision (2 day module)
– Group supervision (2 day module)
– Supervising work with children and young people (3 day module)
– Supervising in organisational contexts (2 day module)
For more information on BACP Competence Framework and Training Curriculum, click here.
Assessment criteria:
Various methods, including reflective journaling, presentations, essays, skill assessment (audio-visual recording), reflective statements, case studies, consultant SV log and report, and supervision log.
Candidates must also work with a minimum of 2 supervisees, log a minimum of 20 hours of supervisory practice, undertake 8 hours of logged supervision consultation, and attend a minimum of 80% of scheduled course delivery dates.
Cost:
£2750 is for the Core course (10 subject areas).
The additional/CPD module fees will vary, depending on whether they are delivered over two or three Saturdays. For two Saturdays it’s £210 each, for three it’s £315.
For further details, please contact Michelle Allen at michelleallen@renew.org.uk or call 01245 264348.