Professional Supervision

Maintaining resilience for practitioners who
​engage in  stressful and emotionally demanding work

What is Supervision?

Professional supervision is a process to enable and guide a practitioner towards competent and accountable practice. It also provides ongoing professional development and support.

A Professional Supervisor will work with you to enable you to explore different dimensions of your professional practice. This can include (but is not limited to): reflecting on the decisions you make in the course of your everyday working life; considering the emotional impact of the work you undertake; supporting you to manage difficult relationships with colleagues and/or clients; developing your confidence and self-awareness. 
Professional Supervision might be a relatively new concept if you work in the fields of interpreting/translating, lipspeaking, and notetaking. Yet you will often be working alongside practitioners such as social workers and mental health workers, for whom Professional Supervision is  well-embedded as good practice. At Labyrinth we believe Professional Supervision is as important for you as it is for the people you work with, and that it is an investment in ensuring longevity in your chosen career.

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Unsure about the difference between mentoring and Supervision?
Mentoring tends to be for a fixed period of time and generally focuses on the more practical elements of an individual's skills development.  Mentors will often shadow and observe their mentee during the relationship.

​Supervision however, is something the individual engages in on an long-term basis. It  looks more at inter- and intra- personal relationships, dilemmas and ethical challenges, and the emotional impact of your work.
Do you ever leave a job and wonder if you could have made a different decision?  Do you end up taking your emotional work baggage home with you?  Finding yourself getting short tempered at home with your family? Becoming emotionally numb and detached from your work and/or clients? Ever wish you had a confidential space in which you could talk to someone about all of these aspects of your professional life?  

​Then supervision is for you!