How supervision works at Exemplar Health Care

Hear from our Head of Learning and Development, Natasha Furness, about how we support our colleagues through effective supervision and performance development reviews.

There's no reason to feel nervous about supervisions. They're a great way to check in on how you’re doing at work, give and receive feedback, and look to the future. 

It’s an essential part of continuing professional development and ensuring high quality care.

It gives you the opportunity to reflect on what’s gone well, or not so well, and look at where improvements could be made.

It also provides vital time with your line manager to discuss your future career ambitions, and how we can support you to get there.

Supervision involves meeting regularly with your manager to review your workload and performance, identify learning and development opportunities, and keep up-to-date with the latest news and updates.

There are different types of supervision depending on your role.

• Clinical supervision, which supports learning and develop competency related to a specific clinical task.

• Professional supervision, focused on identifying professional learning and development needs and CPD.

• Operational/line management supervision. 

Our values are at the heart of everything we do, including the supervision process.

During supervisions, we encourage you to reflect on how you continue to display our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

Our supervision record template suggests the following headings for discussion, however we encourage colleagues to ‘own’ their supervision time and use it as an opportunity to celebrate their successes, identify further training and discuss any concerns.

• Achievements

• Health and wellbeing

• Safeguarding

• Professional conduct

• Learning and development

Yes, we do!

It’s based on Procter’s model of clinical supervision which covers:

• restorative/supportive – focus on health and wellbeing

• normative/managerial – focus on ongoing monitoring and evaluation

• formative/educational – focus on skills and knowledge.

It gives you the opportunity to celebrate your achievements, discuss your health and wellbeing, and reflect on key elements of your nursing role including:

• named Nurse responsibilities and care documentation

• medication management

• quality assurance

• development and revalidation.

As well as regular supervision, all colleagues will receive an annual performance development review (PDR).

This formal meeting reflects on:

• last year’s objectives

• your performance around key competencies such as quality teamwork and time management

• what elements of your role you find most rewarding

• what elements you find most challenging and how you can overcome them

• your career aspirations for the next 12 months.

In them, you’ll set three objectives for the year ahead.

Our learning and development opportunities enable and encourage you to develop and progress in your career. Read about our learning and development opportunities.