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Holistic/Direct Observation/Witness Statement /Professional Discussion/Questioning Record   Training Adviser Name: Sarah ConebarLearner Name:   Anita Shepherd Witness Name and relationship to learner: Setting:   Ashcott House Date: 18th January 2015 |

Evidence/ Unit/Outcomes511 Develop professional supervision practice in health and social care or children and young people's settings1.3 Explain how the requirements of legislation, codes of practice and agreed ways of working influence professional supervisionSupervision is essential for all helping professions, it has underpinning beliefs of what supervision is, and what to expect from supervision such as   * staff entitled to highest standards   * it is about reflection as well as action   * good supervision brings about change   * supervision requires training for the supervision   * supervision should be a role model (Morrison 2005)The aim of any supervision is development and support for the person and their practice (organisational and personal).The Department of health has set clinical supervision as a key target to be achieved.   A formal process of professional support and learning enabling individual practitioners to develop knowledge and competence, assume responsibility for their own practice and enhance consumer protection and safety of care in complex clinical situations (Dept of Health 1993).Individuals are responsible to keep up their own knowledge and skills up to date, this is evidenced in all professional regulators, guidelines and codes of conduct.   Department of Health 2010 states it is the employers responsibility (managers) to provide good quality supervision, along with all employers all having a duty of care.All health and social care settings have an obligation to provide a positive culture of supervisory practice (skills for care 2012).These targets, regulations ect all give us a form of targets, something to work towards, which in turn can be audited, for its effectiveness, in a number of...