We all want our work to be effective, enjoyable and sustainable. Medical professionals are regularly faced with trauma, tragedy and workplace stressors. We excel at caring for patients, but we don’t always care for ourselves. We should maintain our well-being in the same way that we maintain our clinical knowledge – as an ongoing professional development activity throughout our careers.
What is Professional Supervision?
Professional supervision links professional practice and professional well-being. It is complementary to clinical training and counselling.
Sessions are regular, planned, hour long meeting with defined goals based on professional issues you identify. These issues may relate to specific clinical situations, or encompass broader aspects of work including professional relationships, workplace challenges and work-life balance.
Through structured contemplation, supervision provides space and time to focus on each issue and develop clarity about the way to proceed.
Over time, supervision will provide a deeper awareness into the way you work. You can consider how your values and beliefs impact on your work. You will develop an understanding of what you bring to your work and how your work impacts on you.
About Me
I have worked in general practice since 2004, and am a fellow of RNZCGP. I am also an accredited medical sexual assault clinician, working with both Tautoko Mai Sexual Harm Support and MEDSAC. I live in Tauranga with my partner and enjoy tramping and the outdoors. I have a real interest in how doctors care for themselves and completed my Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Supervision in order to be able to provide a quality supervision service.
What Would We Talk About at Supervision?
Consider:
- What are the things about work that I pick over in my mind?
- Why is a certain person (patient/colleague etc) bugging me?
- Has there been a time when my emotions were inappropriate at work?
- What makes me frustrated and negative about work?
- Am I good at managing work-life balance?
- How are personal issues interacting with my professional life?
- Am I good at saying no when I should say no?
- Have I had discussions about my work issues that haven’t gone well?
- Have people not heard what I was trying to say?
- Do I choose appropriate people to talk to about work-related issues?
- What things have I simply not had time to think through and sort out?
- What are the challenges in my professional life that seem too big to consider?
- Where am I in my career? Where do I want to get to? Am I in the right job?
What you get out of supervision correlates directly with what you put in.
Supervision helps you find your own way forward.
If you prepare you will find it more useful.
Make some notes about the issues you want to discuss.
Face-to-face or Remote Sessions
I’m available for face-to-face sessions in Tauranga.
I also provide sessions on line (Zoom, Skype, Whatsapp, Whereby etc) and phone.
Get in Touch
Dr Melanie Johns
drmelaniejohns@gmail.com
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