Mental Health Supervision Plan

MENTAL HEALTH
SUPERVISION PLAN

Table of Contents
MENTAL HEALTH SUPERVISION PLAN.................................................................................3
Rationale for proposed clinical supervision.................................................................................3
Assumption and operational definitions......................................................................................3
Significance of clinical supervision.............................................................................................4
Literature review..........................................................................................................................5
Clinical supervision model..........................................................................................................6
Selection of clinical supervisor....................................................................................................7
Principles of effective supervision...............................................................................................7
Evaluation of clinical supervision ...............................................................................................8
Ethical consideration....................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

MENTAL HEALTH SUPERVISION PLAN
Rationale for proposed clinical supervision
The main reason for conducting clinical supervision related with mental health is to
ensure quality care to client along with ensuring professional development among clinical staff
in a systematic and planned manner. As clinical supervision enable the determination of quality
care with respect to client so this supervision plan will deliver better care to client along with
ensuring continuous professional development of clinical staff. This supervision will also lead to
the performance of related activities in a planned professionalized manner so that the respective
client will be benefited at large (Corey and et.al., 2020). An implication of clinical supervision
may also lead to enhance the standard of healthcare sector. In short this clinical supervision will
lead to have improved care of client, development of professionalism and maintenance of ethical
standards in the concerned field. This will also lead to have a development and raising of skill
among clinical staff along with enhancing treatment effectiveness, retention of client and
satisfaction of staff too will be grabbed by clinical supervision.
Assumption and operational definitions
Assumptions:
 Non universal applicability is the main assumption behind clinical supervision. This
means that it is not mandatory that the same supervision will be applicable in case of
dealing with health condition of every type. As different situation requires different
assumptions.
 Being having an association with human being and mental health, it is not necessary that
the applied assumption will work on all the clients equally.
Definition:
Clinical supervision:
It is a formal alliance between two persons may not necessary between more and less
experienced workers in which supervisee 's work will be monitored and supervise by supervisor
with an assurance of delivering best services to client along with professional development of
supervisee (Falender, 2018).
Mental health counselling:

Here the role and work of supervisee is major wherein it will make supervision of the
mental health of its clients and then make discussion with its supervisor (Valach and Young,
2017). This will lead to knowledge development of supervisee along with enabling professional.
Appropriate practitioner:
It refers to a healthcare professional like doctor, pharmacist, nurse who are authorised to
prescribe medicine.
Chaperone:
It is an independent person generally a healthcare professional whose role is to make
observance of the prescription, consultation or procedures undertaken by doctor over the patient.
Contracting body:
It refers to an organization that employ employees and healthcare professionals against a
contract of rendering services.
Prescription-only-medication:
These include the medicines which are prescribed by appropriate practitioners and is
responsible for the treatment of an individual. These practitioners may includes registered doctor,
paramedic, pharmacist or nurse.
Significance of clinical supervision
To nursing professionals:
It is important for nursing professionals because it will lead to have a reduction of their
stress and raised mental peace (Mohamed and Mohamed Ahmed, 2019). Clinical supervision
also lead to increase retention of nursing professionals.
To organization:
It will lead to raise the standard of the concerned organization. This is because when the
supervision will be enabled by professional and trained staff and medical personnel then it will
lead to have better client satisfaction which in turn raise reputation and standard of concerned
organization too.
Towards personal development:
This is the major importance of clinical supervision. This means that with the adequate
supervision concerned professionals may develop their existing skills (Staples-Bradley, Duda
and Gettens, 2019). It will lead to have a professional development of concerned personnel.