Effective supervision opportunities with your team

The government is launching the new Adult Social Care Training and Development Fund. This guidance details the government’s offer, ahead of the launch of the digital online claims service, with the aim of enabling the adult social care workforce and ASC employers to be able to start to plan their training and development for the financial year 2024 to 2025.

This course will give an overview of strategies used to resolve conflicts, as well as reporting and finding support after a conflict has occurred.

Feedback is very much a two way process – one person giving feedback and one person receiving it – where the focus should be on a positive end‐result. As a manager, giving and receiving feedback is an investment in ensuring that everyone is performing to their strengths. This module allows you to identify the key skills of giving and receiving feedback.

Brighton & Hove care staff

This 10 minute video looks at how to maximise the potential of your staff by taking a strengths-based approach to their development.

To access resource register via the Brighton and Hove Learning Zone.

This Effective Supervision course provides staff responsible for supervising a team with the skills and knowledge required to become an Effective Supervisor. It provides them with the knowledge, understanding and ability to identify and embed roles, manage their team and take responsibility for the activity that they are responsible for.

This free online care training course will give an overview of effective supervision to ensure staff competency and aid staff in delivering high-quality care and support.

This guide is for adult social care managers and supervisors and will help them to plan and implement effective supervision. It shares advice and tips about what works well, to help you to think about how you can make supervision work for you and your staff.

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Supervisions give you the chance to show each individual employee that you value their professional development, and your approach to communication during these encounters can play a role in developing positive relationships with your team, even when constructive feedback is necessary.

A supervision recording template.

This toolkit will support you to offer a robust induction to fully support new starters and ensure you create the right first impression. The checklists at each stage provide lists of activities to consider with signposts to resources and templates which you can tailor. It draws heavily on what providers across health and social care tell us works for them.

Care Quality Commission (CQC) requires care providers to have a formal system to assess staff competence to administer medication. This course provides the knowledge and skills to enable care providers to create and manage a formal system to assess staff competence in administering medication.

This in-person course is funded for adult social care staff working for Brighton and Hove City Council, and staff working in adult social care provider services that contract with Brighton and Hove City Council.

This course will help you to develop and implement a medicines policy and associated audits, as well provide a general update on any new local/national legislation and guidance.

This in-person course is funded for adult social care staff working for Brighton and Hove City Council, and staff working in adult social care provider services that contract with Brighton and Hove City Council.

Virtual supervision refers to any supervision which does not take place face-to-face. This might therefore refer to any supervision which you undertake using a video link (through platforms such as Facetime, WhatsApp, Teams, Skype or Zoom) or it may be a telephone call.

Supervisions Vs Appraisals

This guide has been updated in line with the Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care. It covers statutory and mandatory knowledge and skills in a variety of topic areas based on a review of legislation, guidelines, statutory guidance, standards and recommendations.

Effective supervision supports good working relationships, helps you to address any issues and celebrate achievements. It provides the opportunity to discuss learning and development – and, if you’re a regulated provider, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) expects you to offer staff regular supervisions to ensure that they’re competent and confident to do their role.

Supervision is linked to fundamental standards, which in turn, are linked to the Care Quality Commission’s Key Lines of Enquiry. This online Supervision course has been designed specifically for people in a management or supervisory role working in a social care setting. It may also be useful to a wider audience of people who would like to know more about supervision.

Ensuring your workforce are properly supported through a thorough induction reduces the risk of employees feeling out of their depth, in turn reducing their stress and increasing their enjoyment of their job.

A supportive induction helps new team members fit comfortably and safely into your organisation.

Shadowing, mentoring, buddying, peer support, values-based learning and additional training around core skills and specific health conditions can all be included in the induction.

Use this checklist to help you think about your existing and potential future supervisors.