Reflective practice and empowering social workers and care professionals to make the best decisions they can. Working with team dynamics and managing complex situations. Risk management and safe practice. Group and peer supervision. Working with difference. Leadership and management development. Managing work/personal life balance. Child focused practice. Integrating theory and practice. Culturally safe practice
Research interests- Pacific people, Samoa, Youth, Children, Women, Tangatawhenua, Aged care, Mental Health – particularly depression and anxiety.
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I offer a supervision framework that reflects my social work practice in that it has a strong relationship focus,is faith based (open to all faiths/religious beliefs) and strives to be culturally appropriate. I provide reflective supervision that is empowering and client focused. Assisting social workers to navigate the conflicting requirements exposed to when working within a NGO environment. Managing the conflict between the public persona of large NGO’s with the private reality.
As I am starting out as a supervisor I am happy to negotiate a reduced rate for supervision.
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Strengths focused – supporting social workers to reflect on their practice and how they might utilize their strengths to support positive change
Uses of reflexivity: pause – reflect – learn – apply
Self care – what this means and tools that can support this
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Supporting social workers in the challenges of work and the environment in which we work. Supervision as a place for reflective practice and safety. To enable safe practice. Self cares to maintain a life balance. Supporting growth and professional development within social work practice to create place of thriving in our work. Use of evidence based practice. Working with difference. Social service management and recognising the challenges within this at all levels.
Particular interest working within primary health care. Interest in supporting clients and social workers through grief, loss and life transitions using a neuroscience approach to enable change
Internet based supervision through Zoom, phone supervision.
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Canterbury Otautahi, Casework, Clinical, Clinical Practice Issues, Continuing Professional Development, Counselling, Ethical Practice, Evidence Based Practice, Feminist Approach, Find a Supervisor, LGBT+, Mental health, Mentoring, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Strategies, Motivational interviewing, Occupational Health & Safety, Online Supervision, Practitioner, Professional, Reflective, Reflective Practice, Reflexive Practice, Safe Practice, Solution Focussed Therapy, Strengths Based, Stress Management, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Transitional Work, Trauma Grief Loss, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness
Kia Ora, Social Work is my passion.
1×1 on site supervision exploring learning styles. Holistic approach using the natural environment to form theory and robust planning. Reflective check in; assess ones safety and mental health. Best practice modelling.
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Adults, Best Practice, Biculturalism in Practice, Collaborative Approach, Community Education, Continuing Professional Development, Coromandel, Dads, Disability, External, Fieldwork (student), Find a Supervisor, Health & Disability, Holistic Supervision Approach, Mentoring, Narrative Approach, NGOs/Community Agencies, Older People, Palliative Care, Personal Development, Project management, Relationship & Sex Therapy, Rural Social Work, Safe Practice, Social Service Profession, Strengths Based, Stress Management, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Whanau Maori, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness, Working with Wairua & Spiritual Elements, Workplace Organisational & Team Dynamics
Reflective practice and empowering social workers and care professionals to make the best decisions they can. Managing work/personal life balance. Child focused practice. Integrating theory and practice.
I believe the role of an external supervisor is to provide an environment for growth, to reflect and explore, to be challenged safely and positively, while always maintaining a focus on the best outcomes for whanau and tamariki that we serve.
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I work in a reflective practice framework that empowers social workers and other professionals to make sound professional decisions underpinned in theory and practice experience.
I have experience in care and protection, risk analysis, grief and loss, complex family dynamics, family violence and trauma work.
My supervision style is to empower people to grow their therapeutic capabilities
I look forward to working with people who are willing to engage in reflective practice with a drive to provide best practice.
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Advanced Social Work Methods (e.g. Resistant Clients/Addictions/FV), Best Practice, Care and Protection, Casework, Child Abuse Detection and Prevention, Clinical, Clinical Practice Issues, Collaborative Approach, Culturally Safe Practice, Ecological Model, Ethical Practice, Evidence Based Practice, External, Family Focussed, Feminist Approach, Fieldwork, Find a Supervisor, Holistic Supervision Approach, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Strategies, Narrative Approach, Practitioner, Professional, Reflective, Reflective Practice, Relational Approach, Safe Practice, Strengths Based, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, Transformative Practice, Trauma Grief Loss, Trauma Therapy, Women's Issues, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness, Workplace Organisational & Team Dynamics
My approach to Supervision has been informed by reflective practice which allows social workers/support workers to unpack difficult and complicated cases/situation so they can make best decision for clients in a supportive and reflective framework. My work is informed by attachment theory and ACT therapy.
I have provided peer supervision and group supervision to teams that manage complex cases involving vulnerable families where trauma/violence and risk issues have impacted on the whanau ability to keep children as a focus.
Have extensive experience in mindfulness and how to bring use this to provide a work life balance.
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