Level 7 Certificate: Creative Clinical Supervision

Course Overview

Delivered part-time over one year, the course balances intensive learning with flexibility for busy professionals. It combines theoretical knowledge, practical application, and reflective practice to prepare you to navigate complex ethical, professional, and relational challenges in supervision.

Course Aims

• Develop experienced healthcare, counselling, therapeutic practitioners, educators, managers into competent, confident, and ethical creative clinical supervisors.
• Equip learners with advanced theoretical knowledge and practical skills to deliver safe, effective, and legally sound supervision within professional and organisational frameworks.
• Foster self-aware, reflective, and creative supervisory practice that supports supervisees’ clinical work, professional development, and wellbeing.
• Promote inclusive, ethical supervision that actively embeds equality, diversity, and inclusion within supervisory relationships and practice settings.
• Enable supervisors to respond thoughtfully and creatively to complex clinical, ethical, and relational challenges across diverse professional contexts.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:

• Demonstrate advanced understanding of clinical supervision theory, models, and skills, and apply these coherently within creative supervisory practice.
• Establish, maintain, and develop effective supervisory relationships grounded in ethical, legal, and professional standards.
• Critically reflect on their own values, assumptions, and professional identity to enhance self-awareness and supervisory effectiveness.
• Apply creative and reflective approaches within supervision to support supervisees’ learning, clinical decision-making, and professional growth.
• Manage complex relational dynamics, ethical dilemmas, and professional challenges with confidence and integrity.
• Embed equality, diversity, and inclusion principles into creative supervisory practice, supporting culturally responsive and anti-oppressive supervision.
• Support supervisees in maintaining professional boundaries, self-care, and resilience within demanding clinical environments.
• Integrate theory, practice, and reflective learning to deliver supervision that is development-focused, creative, supportive, and ethically robust across a range of settings.

Why Choose This Course?

• Gain advanced skills and knowledge to creatively supervise effectively and ethically
• Develop confidence in managing complex relational and professional challenges
• Support supervisee’s in creative reflective practice, professional development, and self-care
• Achieve a recognised Level 7 qualification in Creative Clinical Supervision

Course Structure & Schedule

• Duration: 1 year (part-time)
• Delivery: Online
• Taught over: 6 intensive days
• Quarterly tutorials: 4 x 2-hour sessions, dates to be arranged with the cohort
• Learning Methods: Interactive workshops, experiential learning, case studies, assignments, and supervision practice exercises

This blended format allows participants to apply learning in real-world supervision settings while receiving ongoing support and feedback throughout the year.

Who Should Enrol?

This course is ideal for:

• Experienced clinicians, therapists, healthcare therapeutic professionals seeking to develop their skills
• Practitioners aiming to formalise their supervision practice with a Level 7 qualification (CpCAB accreditation pending).
• Professionals committed to enhancing creative reflective practice and supporting supervisees’ growth

Assessment

Participants are assessed through:

• Three Circle Journal
• Reflective feedback
• Assignments
• Case study
• Demonstration of supervisory competence through reflective practice
• 50 hours with supervisee’s
• Supervisor report