Clinical supervision for changing times: Integrating organizational changes into your clinical supervisory practices

Clinical supervision for changing times: Integrating organizational changes into your clinical supervisory practices

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Date: October 25 and November 1, 2022
Time: 9 a.m. to noon EST
Facilitators: Neill Carson, MA, MSW, RSW and Marion Langford, M.Ed.

Please note: This training is offered in two parts, but each of the webinars may be taken on their own as a self-contained training. Participants may register for either webinars or both.

Description: The context of our work in the social sector has changed. The expectations of our funders, the needs of our communities and the individual circumstances of the people we serve have all been transformed in the past few years. The COVID 19 pandemic has accelerated these changes and created new imperatives for organizations- and it has completely changed the way we encounter our clients. Individual organizations and systems of service delivery are responding.

This training will place the role of the supervisor in the context of its importance in understanding the realities of clinical work within the particular community and will include consideration of how that role is changing during the pandemic. Specifically, participants will be invited to reflect on the changes in their own communities effecting how their clinicians work- the increased importance of the cultural and racial context of client experience, the shift from in person to virtual service provision and the anticipated (already happening) changes in client complexity and severity of need resulting from lengthy school closures, changes in work and domestic life, and economic stress.

Part 1 - Integrating organizational changes into your clinical supervisory practices

Clinical supervisors are the key to both clinical and service excellence and the integration of organizational strategy. An effective supervisor supports their staff. They optimize their performance and that of the team and by extension that of the organization. Integrating all these aspects into your role, particularly if you have clinicians and/or other staff that report to you, is vital to your leadership position in the organization. Your organization’s impact is related to your effectiveness in your role, particularly during a period of change.

Part 2 - Tools for effective and supportive supervision in a changing organization

The context of work in the social sector has changed greatly over the past couple of years. This requires a wide range of changes. Changes from the processes governing client participation to the clinical services offered to them. During the adoption of new changes, clinical supervisors need to distinguish when something has shifted from being a clinical dilemma to when it is becoming an issue that needs a performance lens. In both circumstances, supervisors need to discern the way in which their supervisee is interacting with the changes taking place.

Registration fee: $225 (or $125 per session). Student and group discounts available.