Preparing supervisors to provide safeguarding supervision for healthcare staff.

This paper outlines why experienced supervisors at a London healthcare provider received skills training so they could offer safeguarding supervision to front-line colleagues with case management responsibilities for vulnerable children and young people. It examines how supervisors use the main functions of supervision and a cycle of reflection in clinical practice with supervisees. As well as the professional issues encountered by supervisors in relation to the benefits, the challenges of providing supervision and the action required to make safeguarding supervision a part of the organisational culture are also explored.

The nursing associate role: have we been here before?

What should the nursing workforce of the future look like? It is a question all nurse leaders should ask themselves.

Retaining the capacity to care.

AT A recent conference on the future of the NHS workforce, I heard a speaker use the term 'physician extender' (PE) to describe nurses who are licensed by doctors to provide quasi-autonomous health care.