Core Supervision Skills Development Programme

Developing the knowledge, skills and techniques required to provide supervision coaching.

Core Supervision Skills Development Programme

Why choose a TPC Health Supervision Programme?

TPC Health has been a provider of coach training in the health and care system for over 20 years and has a long history of training coach supervisors. Our supervision PCI faculty are fully accredited coaching supervisors with clinical and healthcare backgrounds. We are proud to be one of the few organisations to be accredited by the PCI and hold an EMCC Global Supervision Quality Award and offer an EMCC EQSA accredited training programme.

Our supervision programmes have been designed and developed to provide organisations with an internal resource of trained supervisors that can offer coaching supervision to health and wellbeing coaches, and other ARRS roles.

Who is this programme for?

This programme is aimed at experienced practitioners who are ready to begin developing skills and confidence to supervise other practitioners in their field.

Participants should be able to provide evidence of their own supervision - we can provide this if required, please contact us for details.

For NHS Health and Wellbeing Coaches this programme is appropriate for those who are already at or heading towards Tier 3 (eg can evidence 500 coaching hours) and have completed a four day PCI accredited health coaching programme. If you are not a HWBC, you will be required to have some form of coaching accreditation.

Participants completing this Core Skills programme will be able to access our EMCC EQSA Accredited Supervision Skills Development Programme (that is an accredited EMCC EQSA Award) and have been assessed at the end of this programme as ready. For NHS HWBCs, to advance to this programme, they need to have reached Tier 3 of the HWBC Framework.

What do participants learn?

The focus of the programme is on supporting practitioners to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to become supervisors of other practitioners using coaching.

The programme covers:

The psychological basis and effective use of coaching supervision
Understanding how to achieve the formative, normative and restorative elements of coaching supervision
A variety of coaching supervision models and frameworks
Skills to support supervisees to step fully into their practitioner roles, to create more insight, and to utilise challenge effectively
Skills development and practice to deliver coaching supervision competently and confidently
Skills and processes to deliver coaching supervision in a variety of formats: 1:1, group, telephone, online
Knowledge and skills to use a variety of coaching supervision styles: directive, non-directive, creative techniques
Contracting and boundaries
Knowledge and skills to support action plan and accountability for translating insights into action
Development of “supervisor identity” through ongoing reflective practice and the development of authority, presence and impact in the delivery of coaching supervision

What does the programme experience include?

The programme comprises four 1 day workshops and four half day skills development sessions, delivered over a period of approximately four months, to allow participants to practice their developing skills. Prior to the workshops, participants are onboarded through a reflective process, onboarding webinar and briefing pack that supports them to prepare appropriately and gain maximum value from the sessions.

This is an interactive programme with an emphasis on skill practice and development. The programme will be delivered using a highly participative and experiential learning process supported by expert input by accredited coaching supervisors. We will create many opportunities to practice individual and group supervision skills throughout the programme, and skills development sessions will be structured specifically to practice, deepen and mature participant’s skills in the delivery of individual and group supervision. During and between workshops we will emphasise on-going practice, reflection and planning as reflexive practitioners.

We follow-up the programme with a series of e-learning provocations that comprise brief inputs and memory aids to support participants in the application of learning. There will also be opportunities to join action learning sets and webinars. Participants will be encouraged to join one of our Post-programme Action Learning Supervision Sets to support the further maturation of their supervision skills.

Our Core Supervision Skills programme has been accredited by the PCI. In order to qualify for accreditation, participants will need to complete a Portfolio of Learning evidencing 10 hours of 1:1 supervision practice and 10 hours of group supervision practice (20 hours in total). This will support participants to reflect on their learning and understand their strengths and areas for development, and ensure they have a record of their training, practice and development.

Participants will also need to achieve a required level of skill as assessed by an accredited coaching supervisor. While this will be informed by practice observations during the programme, each participant will also receive a portfolio review and supervision skills assessment session when they feel they are ready to be certified. Note this assessment is also a requirement for progression to our Senior Supervisor Programme, and qualify for the EMCC Accredited EQSA Supervision Skills Development Programme.

All participants in this programme should be accessing regular supervision themselves. If this is not available to them in their region, TPC Health can provide individual or group supervision delivered by one of our accredited coaching supervisors. Please contact us for details.

Programme Structure

Onboarding and preparation process

4 x one day workshops, to include: