Leading with compassion: Supervisors' Briefing (2019)
This briefing explores what is needed to support the development of compassionate leadership skills in both supervisors and those they directly supervise and work with. It includes:
- Examples of leadership models and styles of leadership that lend themselves to compassionate practice and which promote an environment and culture that help compassionate practice to flourish in adult social care.
- The links between national frameworks and opportunities which guide the development of compassionate leadership practice in adult social care.
- An exploration of what compassionate leadership looks like and the role of supervisors in enabling leadership to be developed in others.
- The challenges of ‘compassion fatigue’ and the need for resilience.
The briefing also provides some practical tools to support the development of compassionate leadership skills across organisations.
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Organisational context | Professional ethics and leadership | Influencing and governing practice excellence within the organisation and community | Developing confident and capable social workers | Assuring good social work practice and development | Relationship-based practice supervision | Effective use of power and authority as a practice supervisor
CQC - Well-led
PCF - Contexts and organisations
RCOT - Support development
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