Reflective Supervision Skills Workshop @ The Symington, Market Harborough

Target Audience: Practitioners and Supervisors across LLR with safeguarding responsibilities, e.g. Designated Safeguarding Leads, DSO's. This Multi-Agency Reflective Skills Training course is designed to strengthen the skills of practitioners and supervisors with safeguarding responsibilities by developing a greater collective understanding of the core components of good reflective supervision. It will enable learners to recognise how reflective supervision can make a real difference to staff and crucially the children, young people and families they work with and give them an opportunity to practice reflective supervision skills in a safe and supportive learning environment. It is also intended to support a sense of multi-agency collaborative working and focus on the child in safeguarding practice. This in turn increases the learners’ confidence to professionally challenge colleagues across agencies.  To understand the importance of supervision policies and supervisionTo consider the Purpose and Principles of Supervision - with particular emphasis on supervision for those in safeguarding roles.  To understand the importance of supervision policies and supervision agreements.  To explore the core components of reflective supervision and how reflective supervision can ensure the supervisee and supervisor stay focused on the child and the child’s lived experience  To explore a number of tools and strategies that can be used to aid reflective supervision.  To recognise the impact of anxiety, work pressures, emotions and past experiences on the supervisory relationship and supervision cycle.  To use scenarios and role play to practice using the tools and insights gained.  To begin to reflect, analyse and plan how to put the learning from the day into practice. By the end of the training course participants will have gained:  Increased knowledge, confidence and skills in reflective supervision.  Increased sense of shared knowledge, purpose and good practice across services and organisations. ‘Safeguarding Competencies’ met by the course: Can be used as evidence for a number of competencies, in particular : 1,5,6,10,13,16 and 19. Handouts will be given on the day and/or distributed by the trainer after the training sessions. Trainer: Tracy Charlton