Understanding the three different types of supervision

This chapter focuses on NHS England’s three types of supervision, exploring the purpose and wider benefits of each type.

The chapter will demonstrate how each supervision type can support supervisees in their professional development, enhance patient safety and boost team work. There will be an opportunity to review your own organisation’s supervision, and consider what could be done differently to work towards effective supervision within and across your teams.

Learning outcomes

•What is supervision?​

•What are NHSE’s different types of supervision? ​

•What is the purpose of supervision / what different things does it need to achieve?

•Things to consider to ensure on-the-day (clinical) practice supervision is effective

•Wider benefits of effective supervision

Chapter resources:

The following resources are available to share with your practice team or to support you to work through the workshop learning:

• A narrated slide deck on the chapter is available to watch or download, so you and your team can work through it at your own pace.

• Workbooks with space to complete exercises and note your reflections on key concepts and reinforce learning; one in PowerPoint format to add your own responses, and one on PDF format which can be printed.

Additional resources

NHS England supervision guidance for primary care multidisciplinary teams

This guidance supports primary care networks (PCNs) and GP practices to provide effective supervision for their growing multidisciplinary teams (MDTs). It:

• sets out principles of supervision for roles new to general practice

• identifies best practice to support the development of good clinical governance

• provides guidance on training and developing the workforce.