SCIE is carrying out a project on the delivery of supervision to health and social care workers in integrated settings for the Department of Health. Research being carried out for the project includes focus groups with people who use services to discuss their views on how supervision affects the services they receive and impacts on the outcomes they experience.
However, discussion at the project’s advisory group identified the need for a broader
seminar to look at these issues. SCIE invited a mixed group of people who use services
and carers, and health and social care practitioners and managers to take part in this
seminar in order to look at:
– experiences of people who use services and carers of being involved in or
having input into supervision
– the potential benefits of involvement
– the potential difficulties with such involvement
– ideas about how to increase such involvement.
The seminar was arranged by SCIE’s Participation team at short notice. This meant
having to work through existing contacts and limitations on what could be achieved in
terms of the diversity of the participants. There were nine people who use services at
the seminar and they included people with physical and sensory impairments and
people with learning difficulties. Social care practitioners and managers and a
representative of a nurses’ organisation also took part.