Description
Effective Staff Supervision in the Early Years CPD course Leaders, supervisors, and managers will be introduced to the concept of supervision in a childcare setting. This course provides qualified practitioners with additional learning to further enhance their CV and career development. Any employer will be impressed with your attitude to learning, by continually adding skills to your CV shows real commitment and dedication to your chosen sector.
Short courses are:
- Ideal for developing skills to enter the workplace
- Adding to any recognised qualification you may already hold
- Linked to many subjects covered by courses currently listed on the RQF
In September 2012 it became a legal requirement that staff within daycare settings receive ‘Supervision’, but what is supervision? In this course, aimed at room leaders and managers, you will be introduced to the concept of supervision and its important role within a well-managed setting, particularly in terms of safeguarding. You will also be introduced to some basic points of good practice with regard to implementing supervision processes in your own setting.
This course is intended to be used as ongoing CPD for existing managers, or as a part of a suite of leadership and management courses for introducing team-leader-level staff to new aspects of managerial practice.
Learning outcomes
- You will learn what is meant by ‘supervision’
- You will learn the importance of supervision within a daycare setting
- You will gain an understanding of the basic principles of supervision for application in your own setting
Advantages of this course
- Supervision plays an important part in developing staff’s personal and professional development, as well as making sure that a setting consistently improves. This course outlines the benefits of supervision and the opportunities supervision presents, such as a chance to share concerns in a safe space
- As stated by the Early Years Foundation Stage, effective supervision provides ‘support, coaching, and training for the practitioner’. In the reading section of this course, these terms are clarified and the different forms they can take in a professional setting are detailed. In regards to ‘effective’ supervision, the presentation included in this course explains how to implement an effective process, aimed at supervisors.
- Additional activities encourage you to reflect on your learning
- There is also suggested extended reading that gives both practical information and links to websites to expand knowledge
