This course aims to help students develop a reflective and critical approach to the operational and educational supervision of staff and students that is effective, and that is based on relevant theory and on ethically defensible practice. It draws on models of supervision and facilitation taken from the management, adult education and clinical supervision literatures. The assignments focus both on the educational and operational supervision of individuals working on specific tasks, and on the planning and supervision of blocks of clinical experience for individuals or groups.

As the assignments in this course ask students to reflect on their experiences as supervisors, students enrolling in this course should have, or should have recently had, a formal or informal supervisory role in relation to staff, trainees or students, in a clinical setting.