What Makes an Ultimate Supervisor?
Supervision is one of the most underrated tools we have to build strong, capable, and resilient practitioners. It’s more than just a regular meeting or a compliance tick-box. Good supervision keeps youth workers grounded. Great supervision keeps them growing.
The youth work supervision environment: importance of neutrality
The supervision environment is important to staff uptake All to often I hear from youth workers that they don’t want to do supervision sessions. The concerns range from the classic ‘it would breach confidentiality‘ to the obscure, ‘it doesn’t fit well with my existential philosophy‘. The main reason we hear is that staff don’t feel […]
8 tips for amazing youth work external supervision.
External supervision Two years ago when Ultimate Youth Worker began we started as a small external supervision service for youth workers. We started this because we saw the lack of supervision given to our friends and colleagues as well as the lack of qualified youth workers providing external supervision. We wanted to see youth workers […]
Observe the I in DISC for youth worker’s
Last Thursday we began a looking at the individual quadrants within the DISC behavioural profiling system with “Observe the D in DISC for youth worker’s“. We are half way through our overview series and hope that you have been able torecognise some DOMINANCE behavioural styles in those around you. In this blog we continue the […]
The importance of good professional supervision
Over the course of my career I have had over a dozen supervisors throughout half a dozen or so specialities. Some of these supervisors were Youth Workers, some Social Workers, some Pastors and some drug and alcohol workers. Their qualifications had ranged from Diploma level to Masters degrees and one had no formal welfare qualifications […]