5 Focus Areas

Internal supervision, depending upon organisational expectations, can often have three different focus areas.
These are:
1) operational/administrative - typical line manager issues, such as policies, KPIs, leave, and other matters
2) practice development - not only as (i) an effective clinician/worker, but also (ii) relating to professional behaviour and organisational values and standards 
3) supportive - where the focus can be upon (i) client-related stressors (e.g. incidents or vicarious trauma), (ii) organisational issues (e.g. heavy case load, organisational change, or interpersonal conflict) or (iii) personal issues that may be impacting upon work place and how to support without falling into a counsellor role. 

All the while, the supervisor is mindful of the other two tasks being:
4) evaluation / quality assurance - ensuring that standards and expectations are maintained
5) relationship building - using this time to strengthen the professional bonds that are so critical in sustaining effective clinicians, especially those working with complex  population groups.

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