Allied Health Supervisor Skills Session - When words are not enough

Intended audience: Allied Health and other trained supervisors

Prerequisites: Practicing supervisors who have completed the 2 ½ day Allied Health Supervisor Training 

Duration: 3 hours

Method: Face-to-face workshop

About this course: Kia ora! The overall aim of this course is to extend your practical skills and tools as a supervisor

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Understand limitations of traditional dialogue in supervision
  • Identify the benefits and challenges of alternative interventions and tools
  • Have increased confidence in utilising tools in an experiential environment
  • Apply new learnings into your own supervision practice

Allied Health Supervisor Skills Session - Strength and Resistance in Supervision

Intended audience: Allied Health (and other) trained supervisors

Prerequisites: Practicing supervisors who have completed the 2 ½ day Allied Health Supervisor Training 

Duration: 3 hours

Method: Face to face workshop

About this course:

The overall aim of this course is to increase your awareness and skills when working with resistance in supervision.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify supervisee resistance within supervision and its function
  • Know the core principles of strength based theory
  • Integrate strength based questions into supervision practice
  • Identify your own resistance and the type of questions that work well (or not well) in your own supervision practice

Allied Health Professional Supervision Framework and Training Pathway
Allied Health Supervisor Refresher Training

Intended audience: Allied health and other trained supervisors

Prerequisites: Practicing supervisors who have completed the 2 ½ day Allied Health Supervisor Training at least four to five (4-5) years ago

Duration: 7 hours

Method: Face to face workshop

About this course:

The purpose of the refresher course is to revisit core concepts of professional supervision for those who have already completed the Allied Health Supervisor Training and to further develop their supervision practice. By the end of the training participants will have had the opportunity to:

  • Review their knowledge and practical application of the key components of engagement and contracting in supervision 
  • Deepen and broaden their supervision skills and interventions in an experiential learning environment 
  • To apply the reflective learning model of supervision in a recorded session and participate in the peer review process 

Te Pou - A Framework for Supervision in a Bi-cultural context

Intended audience: Trained supervisors from Allied Health and other professions

Prerequisites: Practicing supervisors who have completed the Allied Health Supervisor Training 

Duration: 2 hours

Method: Face to face workshop

About this course:

Te Pou is a strengths based supervision framework that supports the supervisor and supervisee to know what their existing strengths and resources are by naming them under four specific pou. By identifying and acknowledging these, both supervisee and supervisor have at their fingertips easy access to valuable resource. Supervisee and supervisor have an increased sense of security in that they already have everything they need to find successful solutions to any concerns. 

Te Pou is based on a very old karakia from Te Tokerau. The karakia seeks support and sustenance, provision and protection, while understanding the challenges and barriers. 

Allied Health Supervisor Training

Who is this for: [All Allied Health staff and others on request]

Prerequisites: [Completion of the Allied Health Supervisee Training e-Learning module within the past 2 years and approval by line manager and professional/clinical lead]

Duration: [2 1/2 days]

Course contact: [Delia McKenna (delia.mckenna@waitematadhb.govt.nz) and Leanne Browne (leanne.browne@waitematadhb.govt.nz]

Method: [Face to Face in person sessions ]

Allied Health Supervisee Training

The overall purpose of the allied health supervisee training is to support new Te Whatu Ora Waitematā employees to maximise the benefits of supervision for themselves, their patients/whānau and the wider organisation. The allied health supervisee training uses a ‘blended learning’ approach, meaning it is delivered via an initial e-Learning module followed by a face to face workshop, adding to a total course time of three (3) hours.