Safeguarding Supervision

Here at ECP, we believe that supervision should be readily available to safeguarding practitioners, recognising that time to reflect and pause is crucial in being able to provide safe and clear decisions as well as to be able to recognise and manage the impact of the work that we are doing as professionals.

ECP is committed to ensuring that staff receive good quality, effective and purposeful support. This can be maintained through effective supervision.

At ECP the aims of supervision are:

- To validate staff both as a professional and as a person.
- To create a safe climate by giving staff an opportunity to look at their practice and its impact on them as a person.
- To support staff who are subject to any form of abuse, either from students, parents or from other colleagues, whether this be physical, psychological or discriminatory.
- To monitor the overall health and well-being of staff, especially about the effects of stress.
- Debrief staff and give them a space in which to talk about their feelings.
- To help staff explore emotional blocks to their work.
- To help staff reflect on difficulties in peer relationships and to assist the staff member in resolving conflict.
- To clarify when the staff member should seek external counselling.

We achieve these aims by creating a safe space for our supervision sessions, by building trust and having an empathetic approach to our work with professionals.