Supervision

Supervision and assessment resources

On this page you will find Supervision and assessment resources and guiding regarding the supervision of advanced practitioners.

The purpose of these resources is to guide supervisors and supervisor training, rather than providing supervision.

High quality supervision for healthcare professionals moving into trainee advanced practice roles is essential for supporting the development of confidence and capability and underpins patient and practitioner safety. The Centre for Advancing Practice has a number of resources to support supervision and assessment.

Supervision and assessment resources Workplace Supervision for Advanced Clinical Practice: An integrated multi-professional approach for practitioner development.

The Centre for Advancing Practice

Workplace Supervision for Advanced Clinical Practice: An integrated multi-professional approach for practitioner development

Minimum standards for supervision

Minimum standards for supervision

High quality supervision for healthcare professionals moving into trainee advanced practice roles is essential for supporting the development of confidence and capability and underpins patient and practitioner safety. Health Education England’s (2020) Workplace supervision for advanced clinical practice provides further in-depth, evidence based information and recommendations on how to develop quality supervision in the workplace. The following guidance is for supervisors, managers, employers, and trainee advanced practitioners to advise of the Centre for Advancing Practice minimum expected standards for supervision.

Advanced Practice Supervisor Capabilities

Employer Supervisor and Trainee responsibilities in advanced practice

This guidance sets out learning and development principles for practitioners who are supervising colleagues as they progress to advanced level practice. It should be considered in conjunction with Centre for Advancing Practice supervision guidance and minimum standards.

Supervisor Resources

Exercises

Advanced practice demands.

Exercises to work out the advanced practice demands in a specified practice setting.


Skill acquisition models and frameworks can be helpful in providing frameworks for both supervision and for supervisor training and development.


self-assessment/ reflective questions

Helpful supervision behaviours and characteristics self-assessment/ reflective questions (practitioner permeability).


Barriers

Overcoming barriers to supervision: Some of the barriers identified here apply to supervision across the health and care system while others are barriers which are more specific to the advanced practice context.

Supervision and assessment videos

Supervision and assessment videos

This video series provide insights about best practice in multi-professional supervision for advanced practice. These insights gathered through conversations with colleagues working in advanced practice in a variety of clinical settings.

South West Faculty podcasts

Supervision and assessment podcasts

A series of podcasts developed by the South West Faculty exploring supervision within advanced practice.

Forms and checklists

Download the forms below to complete.

Employer’s advanced practice supervision action plan
Employer’s advanced practice supervision action plan
Supervisor readiness checklist
Supervisor readiness checklist
Readiness to become an advanced practitioner
Readiness to become an advanced practitioner