There is an Association of Child Psychotherapists requirement for child psychotherapists who act as service supervisors to undertake training on the many aspects of this complex role.

This includes provision of both management and clinical supervision for the trainee; working with the CAMHS team to support the trainee; and identifying and allocating suitable training cases. The role also involves overseeing the trainee’s professional correspondence, record keeping, outcome returns and professional development and liaison with the training school and the trainee’s personal tutor at the training school.

The course also looks at some of the published literature on supervision and service supervision. Each member of the group is asked to make one or two presentations of a service supervision, which often involves the discussion of case management and other issues as well as the clinical supervision of a case in treatment.

Such a written presentation enables the participants to draw out and consider some of the issues which arise in service supervision and to consider the essential aspects of role and primary task.

The current cohort is fully booked. Please register your interest for the next cohort to run in 2023.

There will be ten monthly sessions, each lasting two hours. The next course will run on the following dates:

This course will be delivered remotely using Zoom.

You will need a device with a microphone and camera together with a suitably fast internet connection. Although mobile devices and tablets can be used, we recommend the use of a laptop or desktop PC for the best experience. Some devices provided by employers may have restrictions in place. Please use this Zoom test link to check your set up before booking.

You will be sent the necessary login link about a week before the course start date. Should you have any concerns about the accessibility of remote delivery please contact us to discuss how we can best help you.

Library membership

Included in your course fee, you will receive online membership to the Tavistock’s internationally-renowned library for the duration of your course.

Our friendly and knowledgeable library team will help to support you through your specialist CPD course, whatever your level of professional or academic experience. You will have access to an extensive range of eBooks, online journals, all the relevant key databases and our specialist audio-visual collection, plus reference access to all our print books.

Our information skills trainer has made lots of material available on Moodle to help you navigate our comprehensive electronic collections. PCs and photocopiers are available for your use (charges apply for printing and copying), as well as various online resources including audio/video playlists.