Supervision Agreement
Supervision is a value of the BACP ‘Ethical Framework’. It is designed to offer you, as a counsellor, a reflective space in which to develop practice and so benefit client safety.
Our Joint Commitment
We agree to be open, honest and non-judgemental about the work.
We agree to ensuring the best use of supervision time.
We agree to the right level of support and challenge being offered.
We agree to work together; this is a shared work, built upon relationship.
We agree to the theoretical approaches used.
We agree to confidentiality, within the normal limitations of harm to self or others, including your counselling clients. Supervision material to do with a specific client can be taken to the relevant client. Should I feel that this is necessary, I will discuss it with you first and make arrangements for the client contact details to be shared for this purpose.
We agree to work to the BACP ‘Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions’.
This agreement can be renegotiated by either party at any time. After 6 sessions I will hold a formal review and evaluation session to ensure that the supervision is meeting the agreed criteria.
My Commitment to You
To agree with you session date, time & length, as well as whether sessions will be held face-to-face, remote or outdoors.
To keep notes of the supervision session. These will be stored appropriately and securely.
Creating a suitably safe and comfortable environment.
To start and end on time.
To provide relevant professional feedback.
To monitor ethical issues of counselling and supervision.
To encourage professional development.
To challenge you to take triggering material to personal therapy.
To monitor your caseload and raising any concerns related to it.
To attend to my own regular supervision.
Ocassionally, the supervision session may need to be recorded as a whole or in part, for my training requirements. I will ask for your consent to the recording at the beginning of the relevant session. You retain the right to veto the recording of any specific part or whole of your supervision session. This right remains in place pre, during and after the session has taken place. Should you wish to remove consent for the recording of any or all of a specific session being used for this purpose, please speak to me as soon as possible.
Your Commitment to Me
To prepare for supervision.
To be responsible for meeting your own supervision requirements.
To present client work, bearing confidentiality in mind at all times.
To take ownership of learning objectives and applying anything you learn to your work with clients.
To feedback to yourself and to me.
To keep notes of supervision sessions.
To share key personal information that may hinder your work with clients.
To keep me informed regarding the level of your caseload.
To attend all agreed upon session and to be punctual.
To pay for all sessions, within 48hrs, at the agreed rate.
To accept that the full fee is payable for sessions that are:
missed without notice
cancelled or postponed by you on the day of, or the day before, the agreed session.
Reports
Should you require a report to be written relating to your supervision, I may need to arrange an additional supervision session to complete the report. This will depend on the length of the report that is needed and will be negotiated between us on a case-by-case basis.
Further Information
You might like to also review these additional documents:
Additional information – this document contains information about remote and outdoor appointments
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