Advanced Diploma in Supervision

Course Content:

• Theories and Skills of Supervision
• Ethical and Professional Issues in Supervision
• Group and Organisational Supervision

Learning Outcomes:

• To review, understand and critically reflect on theories of clinical supervision.
• To understand developmental models of supervision and be able to apply them in supervision practice.
• To isolate tasks, functions and roles of supervision and learn how to work with them in actual supervision sessions.
• To learn the skills of being a supervisor and be able to implement them in work with supervisees.
• To be able to help supervisees use supervision effectively.
• To be aware of how individuals and groups learn and how to use experiential learning as a basis of learning in supervision.
• To work with supervisees in one-to-one and group settings.
• To be ethically aware and to have learned a process of ethical decision - making in supervision.
• To learn the skills of reflexivity.
• To be able to set up, contract for, maintain and terminate a supervisory arrangement effectively.
• To be able to give and receive feedback.
• To write clear and honest supervisory reports.
• To be sensitive to the impact of organisations on supervision practice.
  

Additional Course Requirements:

25 hours of external supervised Supervision Practice (Course includes 25 hours of internal supervised Supervision practice)

7 hours external supervision of Supervision Practice

LEADING TO THE AWARD OF:

MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN SUPERVISION

Eligibility:

Applicants are required to hold a Diploma or Degree (Level 6 or higher) in Counselling & Psychotherapy, Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, Education, Medicine or equivalent. Applicants who do not hold a Level 6 qualification may be  considered on the basis of substantial relevant experience and training. Applications in this category will be considered on a case by case basis and applicants will be required to furnish documentary evidence of experience and training.

• Applicants must be qualified practitioners who have begun supervising other professional practitioners (trainees or experienced) or are about to do so.

• A minimum of three years’ post-qualification experience as a practitioner is required.

• Applicants must provide a recommendation from their supervisor.

Entry is by application form, short essay* and a recommendation letter from the supervisor. Applicants may be invited to interview.

*Applicants are required to submit a 500-word essay of why you wish to engage in supervisor training. Your submission should show that you have the competencies to meet the requirements of the course and the ability to write essays to the required standard and to set up supervisory arrangements where you act as a supervisor.

Additional Requirements:

• Practitioner should be registered and/or accredited with a body appropriate to their practice and qualifications.
• Applicants should check with their current or expected accrediting body if this programme meets the standard of that body for recognition/accreditation as a clinical supervisor (at present, this programme meets the requirements of the IACP for application to accredit as a clinical supervisor).

*Note: Many accrediting bodies require those with supervision qualifications to be already accredited (often for a specific period) before being eligible to apply for supervision accreditation.

Fees:
PCI College tuition fees for the Advanced Diploma in Supervision beginning in January 2018 are as follows:

Fee: £2,595 (plus Middlesex University Registration Fee £980)
PCI Graduate Fee: £2420 (plus Middlesex University Registration Fee £980)

Application Process

Applicants should complete the online application form including the Initial Deposit of £250, which is deductible from course fees if the application is successful. Applicants are entitled to a full refund of the Initial Deposit if they decide to cancel within 14 days of receipt of their application. Should an application be unsuccessful, or if the application is cancelled by the applicant following this 14 day period, an administration fee of £60 is charged and the balance of £190 refunded.

Programme Leaders:

Willie Egan MIACP
BSc in Counselling & Psychotherapy, Advanced Diploma in Supervision (under Prof Michael Carroll), Diploma in Social Studies.

Willie is a Faculty Lecturer and Core Tutor for PCI College where he lectures on the Certificate and Degree Programmes. He is an experienced and fully accredited therapist offering counselling and psychotherapy services to individuals in private practice. Willie also has expertise is in the field of adolescent culture and he is a HSE Adolescent Mentor.

Read Willie's Course Blog here

Mike Hackett MIACP, MARCHTI, B.Sc (Hons) Counselling and Psychotherapy
B.Sc (Hons) Couns. & Psych., Adv. Dip. Supervision.

Faculty Lecturer with PCI College and Programmes Director of PCI Consulting, Mike lectures on a number of modules on the B.Sc. Programme, on the Advanced Diploma in Supervision as well as having responsibility for PCI’s Workplace Resilience Programmes. Mike has also built and delivered training programmes in the youth and voluntary sectors as well as served in a number of senior management and operation roles in the multinational corporate sector for over 20 years. Having founded Introspect Counselling in 2007, he is now clinical director for this three therapist practice providing counselling and supervision in Dublin city and its suburbs.

Graduates of the Advanced Diploma in Supervision will be qualified to practice as a professional supervisor, working with individual supervisees and in an organisational context. The programme also introduces the practice of group supervision. Career opportunities may include private practice, work with state and voluntary organisations, mental health organisations, social care providers, business and any environment whereby supervision is provided or required for practitioners. This programme can be effectively integrated with any qualification that students have already achieved.