Lived Experience Supervision
The family/carer workforce must be empowered, enabled, and given the space and support to grow as vital members of the Mental Health and Wellbeing workforce.Supervision is a key pillar in ensuring a strong and thriving discipline evolves.
What is supervision?
Supervision in this context “focuses on reflective practice, the impact of the carer’s work, debriefing, and the application of a worker’s unique skills and lived experience in their working environment. It should be a safe space to explore strengths and strategies as well as problem solving issues, challenges, and tensions in the key areas of carer work. Lived experience discipline-specific supervision allows for the development of a relationship based on a shared understanding, where the safety, wellbeing and professional development of the carer’s work is paramount.” Carer Perspective Supervision (September 2021, p.16)
Who is this supervision for?
Those in any family/carer designated role such as:
- Carer Consultants.
- Peer Workers.
- Educators.
- Directors.
- Lived Experience Advisors.
- And more will benefit from discipline specific supervision.
Who is the supervisor?
Andrew provides the discipline specific supervision. Andrew complies with general understanding that professional supervision, within the family/carer discipline (in the mental health and wellbeing sector) is delivered by family/carers who have both their own lived/living experience of walking alongside someone with mental health challenges, and of working in a designated role.
How and when is supervision undertaken?
- MindSpark supervision is available online.
- Sessions are generally an hour long.
- Frequency is usually 4 weekly but this can vary depending on the circumstances of the supervisee.
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