How are you supervised?
September 23, 2014 11:00 PM Subscribe
I would like to hear from health/wellness professional who are supervised (by choice or through professional obligation) on a regular basis.
I'm interested in the details of how it works for you: How often are you supervised? Are you expected to go to the supervisor, or does the supervisor come to you? Are you supervised in a situation with a client/patient, or by yourself? Who pays for the supervision and the other potential costs? What's the average cost for you?
My professional association requires that I pass an annual supervision, which I pay for out of pocket. They are also asking me to travel to another city, with a client, to do the supervision, which means I pay the roundtrip travel fare for both of us. All of this in addition to the yearly dues I pay as a member of the association. I'd like to get an idea of whether or not this is standard practice. Thanks in advance.
I'm interested in the details of how it works for you: How often are you supervised? Are you expected to go to the supervisor, or does the supervisor come to you? Are you supervised in a situation with a client/patient, or by yourself? Who pays for the supervision and the other potential costs? What's the average cost for you?
My professional association requires that I pass an annual supervision, which I pay for out of pocket. They are also asking me to travel to another city, with a client, to do the supervision, which means I pay the roundtrip travel fare for both of us. All of this in addition to the yearly dues I pay as a member of the association. I'd like to get an idea of whether or not this is standard practice. Thanks in advance.
I would say that expecting you to drag a client across country is weird - if the assessor needs to sit in on a (therapy?) session they should come to you to avoid inconveniencing the client. They can probably inconvenience you all they want.
posted by tinkletown at 1:33 AM on September 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by tinkletown at 1:33 AM on September 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
"health/wellness professional" is just too broad to have meaning here. A therapist in training attends regular supervision sessions with a senior therapist. A nurse has a nurse manager who issues evaluations. A doctor might be directly observed at first, then works independently with almost no supervision. A lay midwife will apprentice with a senior midwife.
Be more specific?
posted by latkes at 12:21 PM on September 24, 2014
Be more specific?
posted by latkes at 12:21 PM on September 24, 2014
What you're describing isn't supervision, it's certification. You can't be supervised once a year at a scheduled time, as a service you pay for.
The ACP and AAFP are beginning to require exhaustive patient surveys for maintenance of certification, but you don't have to bring patients to a certification. None of the medical licensing certifications are done on real patients, I guess because it could be considered malpractice.
The ACP and AAFP have pissed off plenty of doctors with these maintenance of certification requirements, for reasons similar to what you're describing. It's expensive, inconvenient and of questionable utility - It sounds like you're describing a multilevel marketing scheme.
posted by hobo gitano de queretaro at 11:20 PM on September 24, 2014
The ACP and AAFP are beginning to require exhaustive patient surveys for maintenance of certification, but you don't have to bring patients to a certification. None of the medical licensing certifications are done on real patients, I guess because it could be considered malpractice.
The ACP and AAFP have pissed off plenty of doctors with these maintenance of certification requirements, for reasons similar to what you're describing. It's expensive, inconvenient and of questionable utility - It sounds like you're describing a multilevel marketing scheme.
posted by hobo gitano de queretaro at 11:20 PM on September 24, 2014
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My employer pays for my actual revalidation but not for the other expenses associated with it (CPD, time spent preparing, 360 feedback etc). We pay for professional exams ourselves (thousands of pounds) which other professions don't, but the fact that accountants get them paid for doesn't cut much ice unfortunately.
The professional association does not pay for anything - they take a few hundred pounds a year off us in exchange for um not sure actually. Cheaper conference rates and the CPD diary. They do run our post-grad exams, you can then join after you've passed them but it's optional. We also have a regulator, who takes a compulsory £500 a year off us in order to run a kafkaesque tribunal system (decisions regularly overturned by high court as unlawful). We pay our insurance costs (compulsory), and then we have a union but it's toothless and only about half of us are members.
So, it's not unusual to have to pay some professional costs yourself. Which ones you pay will vary from profession to profession. They should be tax deductible, if that helps.
posted by tinkletown at 1:30 AM on September 24, 2014