Common use of Management and Supervision Clause in Contracts

Management and Supervision. The Board will ensure every member of its staff engaged in delivering the Service as part of this Agreement is properly and sufficiently instructed and supervised in all aspects of their role and that they are familiar with all relevant policies, procedures and statutory requirements including Child Protection and concerning Health and Safety at Work. As part of this Agreement the Board will make arrangements to provide an enhanced level of individual and group clinical and safeguarding supervision to be available for all relevant members of staff who are involved in delivering the Service and in line with best practice. This reflects the additional complexity of caseload responsibilities which result from delivering the Service; this is an enhanced level of safeguarding supervision which would not normally be provided by the Board and as such the costs will be met by the Council. Clinical and safeguarding supervision must be provided by a suitably qualified person, employed by the Board. The safeguarding supervision provided should reflect the intensity of staff members work with children with safeguarding issues. It is recommended that as minimum health visitors should have access to one-to-one safeguarding supervision on a three to six monthly basis. Consideration should be given to providing more frequent supervision sessions for those who are newly qualified, newly appointed to Flying Start, or are returning to practice after a break. Similar consideration should also be given for those who have identified they have significant numbers of children with safeguarding issues on their caseload or whose safeguarding practice has been identified as requiring further development by their line manager or safeguarding supervisor.