Syllabus

• Orientation Weekend
• Theories and Skills of Clinical Supervision
• Ethical and Professional Issues in Supervision
• Group Supervision in Theory and Practice
• 25 Hours of Supervised Clinical Practice (internal to the programme)

Additional Course Requirements:

• 25 hours of external, one-to-one clinical supervision practice in a placement suitable to effective practice (may be one’s own private practice or in an existing organisation)
• 7 hours of clinical supervision of the student’s supervisory practice
  (with a supervisor acceptable to the student’s target accrediting body e.g. IACP, IAHIP, BACP etc.)

LEADING TO THE AWARD OF MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY ADVANCED DIPLOMA CLINICAL SUPERVISION

Assessment: Two written essays plus one Viva (assessment of supervisory skills in a clinical context).

What will you learn?

Our programme underpins professional clinical supervision practice by employing a training approach which encompasses theories and models of supervision, developing applied supervisory skills and building on your own existing personal and professional knowledge. The programme is designed to harness theoretical and experiential learning in service of contemporary clinical supervision best practice. In addition to 25 hours of clinical supervision practice built into the programme itself, there are an added 25 hours of external supervised clinical supervision practice. On completion of the programme, graduates will be able to work in one-to-one as well as group supervision contexts. Participants are required to contract with a clinical supervisor (appropriate to their accrediting body or similar) for a minimum of 7 hours of supervision as they train to become clinical supervisors themselves.

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 for 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. 

Eligibility:

Applicants are required to hold a diploma or degree (Level 6 or higher) in counselling and 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 they wish to engage in supervisor training. The applicant’s submission should show that they 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 the applicant acts 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 Clinical Supervision beginning in January 2020 are as follows:

Fee: £2,595 (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.

 Mike Hackett IASD, MIACP, 

MA Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy, B.Sc (Hons) Counselling and Psychotherapy, Adv. Dip. Supervision

Faculty Lecturer with PCI College and Programme Leader for the Advanced Diploma Clinical Supervision, Mike lectures on a number of modules on the B.Sc. Programme and on the Advanced Diploma Clinical Supervision. 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 practice providing counselling and supervision in Dublin city and its suburbs. Mike has been published in the Irish Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, and is now the editor of the same publication and is vice-chairman of the research committee of the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Graduates of the Advanced Diploma Clinical Supervision will be qualified to practice as a professional supervisor, working with individual supervisees in a one-to-one and group contexts in private practice and/or organisational settings. Career opportunities may include private practice, work with state and voluntary organisations, mental health organisations, social care providers, business and any environment whereby clinical supervision is provided or required in those professions. This programme can be effectively integrated with any qualification that students have already achieved. Note: qualification is no guarantee of accreditation. Students are advised to verify accreditation eligibility requirements of their target accrediting body before applying to this programme. The course meets the criteria for accreditation with the IACP for qualified counsellors/psychotehrapists.