What Makes This Course So Special?
The blended learning format which combines home study with stimulating experiential weekends.
The experienced tutors who are passionate about supervision and put their energies into facilitating a supportive and creative learning environment.
The rich combination of enthusiastic students who come on the course with a wealth of experience from a range of different backgrounds.
Course Intro
This course is for you if you are a member of the helping professions providing non-managerial supervision for practitioners in relation to their professional practice. This includes Health Care Professionals, Counsellors, Therapists, Psychologists, Social Workers and other similar roles. The course has been running for over ten years and has an excellent reputation as a comprehensive training package for continuing professional development, covering both the practical and theoretical aspects of consultative supervision.
As a working professional you will find this course flexible with its combination of home study packs that are accessible online and six once-a-month two-day teaching sessions at the University. On these block teaching sessions you will experience workshops, skills practice in small groups, video work and group presentations. This serves to consolidate your learning from your practice in the field. You will have an opportunity to study all aspects of theory and practice relating to one-to-one supervision, group supervision and supervision in an organisational context.
What You Study
Diploma Stage
6 two-day study blocks
Module One - Individual Supervision Skills & Strategies (30 credits)
On this module you will learn a range of supervision skills and theoretical models and are invited to develop your personal model of supervision practice which is congruent with your own theoretical orientation and working context.
Module Two - Group Supervision & Supervision on an Organisational Level
(30 credits)
This module will help you to adapt your personal models of supervision to work with groups and within an organisational setting. Skills, strategies and models for group supervision are explored, as well as the role of supervision in creating healthy organisational systems.
Masters Stage
5 days teaching plus monthly tutorials.
Following the successful completion of the Diploma, you will have the opportunity to research and write a 20,000 word dissertation on a topic relating to consultative supervision. You will learn about research methodology and then move on to do the dissertation itself. You will be allocated a personal supervisor to provide expert guidance, advice and support where necessary.
A programme specification is available for this course.
Where Next?
Once you have completed the Masters you will have demonstrated that you have an in-depth knowledge of supervision, which is likely to include specialist knowledge gained by your own research findings. This is likely to further develop your reputation as a professional supervisor.
There may also be opportunities for you to progress into further study via a PhD route on application, both at Newport and other UK Universities.
Interview Required
No. Selection is on the basis of you meeting all the entry requirements outlined above and providing references.
Assessment
• Diploma: Essay, file of evidence containing your reflective learning from home study packs, skills observation, group presentation and 40 hours supervision practice evidenced by supervisor’s report.
• Masters: 20,000 word dissertation
Student Soundbite
“I like the components of the course, the mixture of individual and group supervision. I was also attracted by the diversity of people and professions the course opens itself to.”