Clinical supervision in a UK military department of community mental health

Wesson, M. I., Whybrow, Dean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9066-6196, Greenberg, N. and Gould, M. 2013. Clinical supervision in a UK military department of community mental health. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps 159 (4) , pp. 291-293. 10.1136/jramc-2013-000079

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Abstract

Objectives: Recent service developments in the NHS on the provision of talking therapies such as the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative have made the compliance with clinical supervision (CS) inherent among its service guidelines. This paper presents the findings of an audit, measuring compliance with CS among clinicians providing psychological therapies within a military Department of Community Mental Health. Method: Adherence to the recommended monthly supervision and the presence of an indate CS contract were audited on two separate occasions over 2 years by analysing the departmental electronic CS database. Results: Compliance rates were found to be lower than the Defence guidelines, which are already modest in their expectations compared with IAPT CS standards. Discussion: Potential reasons are hypothesised including high levels of staff rotation, other military commitments, clinicians not keeping up-to-date records and the pressures of meeting performance indicators on other clinical issues. Proposals for improving the uptake of CS are suggested along with areas for further research.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Healthcare Sciences
Publisher:	BMJ Group
ISSN:	0035-8665
Date of Acceptance:	14 April 2013
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 09:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/73912

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