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.

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.

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.

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.