Andrew Jones
Biography
Profession/Job Title: Independent Reviewing Officer & Child Protection Case Conference Chairperson.
Professional Body/Bodies Membership/Accreditation:
- BASW & Social Work England.
- Social Work Union.
Qualifications:
- MSc Psychology.
- BSc, [Hons] Psychology.
- Qualified Social Worker, registration number SW 27731, Social Work England.
British Psychological Society Approved Certificates in Clinical Supervision.
- Essential Supervision Skills, Level 1.
- Essential Supervision Skills, Level 2.
- Advanced Supervision Skills Level 3.
Geographical base (city/county/country): Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, UK
Therapeutic modality/modalities I offer Clinical Supervision on: Proctors 3 Function Interactive Model.
Supervision Strategy:
My supervision strategy is solution focused with an emphasis on the supervisee being prepared in advance of supervision of how they wish to use the session and how they will know the supervision has assisted them.
The supervisee will be expected to prepare in advance a briefing note to me to achieve these outcomes and subsequent sessions we will review how supervisee has applied the solution identified.
Often there is a need consider if our understanding of our narrative is perceived by others as correct. Exploration of this is useful in formulating a solution and how others may receive this applied solution.
Since completing my Clinical Supervision training, I have applied a Narrative Approach to my supervision, see Integrative Approaches to Supervision, Carroll & Tholstrup, 2004 & Jane Speedy.
We tell our story/narrative from our perspective. The process followed is to deconstruct the narrative to confirm the consistency of the supervisee in a variety of work settings and to guide the supervisee to consider their narrative from alternative perspectives and consider different outcomes.
Client Groups/Fields of interest I offer Clinical Supervision on:
My field of interest is providing Clinical Supervision to professionals who have a lead for children & family safeguarding.
Significant/Relevant Experience/Achievements:
I have been a social worker, social work manager, and safeguarding officer for the thirty-five years.
Roles I have held include LADO Service Manager, Team Manager, Residential Social worker, Specialist IRO and Child Protection conference Chairperson. This latter position has allowed me to develop significant insight into the difficulties and at times trauma experienced by safeguarding practitioners that hinders their practice and undermines their emotional health.
I have also experienced such difficulties and have been committed to maintaining my own emotional health to allow me to be best I can for my clients.
I would wish to support you in being as emotionally healthy as you can be by providing clinical supervision based on shared practitioner experience, my continued practice experience and expertise is supervision.
Case examples I have managed include:
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A nurse colleague who advised me that she could not contribute to the child protection planning as she was recovering from her own experience of domestic violence and therefore was unable to engage with the father in the case who was domestically violent, secondary trauma.
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A social worker advised that she had come to realise that she had taken an overly maternal role with a client that was creating a dependency upon her by the client as opposed to empowering the client to parent independently that stemmed from her own parenting experience, counter transference.
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A social worker who was unable to complete an objective placement assessment of a same sex couple due to their own religious beliefs, religious belief bias.
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Addressing service cultural bias where services are failing to engage with fathers and male care providers in the child protection process.
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Managing a restorative approach to address long standing disagreements between colleagues.
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Reviewing how significant life events ranging from divorce, bereavement and child related concerns are impacting on personal practice.
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The trauma experienced by the death of a client.
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Colleagues acknowledging that they simply do not like their clients, are frightened of their clients or they have been attracted to their clients.
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Poor personal psychological or mental health.
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Alcohol or drug dependency.
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Group supervision to work through shared practitioner blocks to case practice and decision making.
Offering private clinical supervision: Yes
Offering Microsoft Teams: Yes
Email: andrew@safeguardingclinicalsupervision.com
Web-site: Clinical Supervision For Safeguarding Practitioners