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Are you an experienced healthcare practitioner working in a clinical or education setting actively engaging with lifelong learners of health and social care practice in supervisory, mentorship or coaching partnerships; guiding other health and/or social care professionals in such a capacity, or you may be a supervisee/mentee wishing to progress your career towards taking on a supervisory and/or mentorship role.

This unit aims to support and facilitate building and/or further developing your competence and capability as a workplace supervisor or guiding others to develop as such, within the context of relevant practice or educational settings.

The unit offers a flexible approach for embedding your learning and professional development within your practice, with particular focus on formative, normative and restorative functions of being a supervisor and developing as an effective and supportive mentor. You will have the opportunity to share your experiences with student peers working in practice and academic institution settings, exploring best practice and areas for improvement together in a safe, facilitated setting. The expectation is that you will be supported to develop the specific skills, knowledge and attributes required for your supervisor role within whatever context you work.

In this unit you will adopt self-directed, autonomous learning approaches. You will be supported to identify your own learning and professional develpoment needs related to specific supervisory and/or mentorship role requirements, which provide the foundations for this unit.

You will be guided and supported to critically evaluate and reflect on your supervisor and mentor role and its impact on supporting professional colleagues and/or students. This will involve considering your own values and beliefs systems and ethical and legal dilemmas that may occur within supervisory practice.

This module can contribute to the following programme(s)

PCHSEP: PGCert Health Sciences Education