Accreditation as a Supervisor
Accreditation at the supervisory level will be reserved for those who have already been accepted as either a Counselling Practitioner or an Accredited Counsellor and who have trained and gained experience in the supervision of other counsellors. They must:-
- be maintaining their counsellor accreditation
- be supervising a minimum of two people
- have at least 50 hours experience as a supervisor
- have been accredited as a counsellor for at least one year
- have at least 650 hours of supervised counselling practice
Requirements for accreditation as an Accredited Supervisor :-
- agreement with ACC's "Statement of Faith".
- agreement to work within the terms of ACC's "Ethics and Practice" document.
- completion of a minimum of 60 hours of appropriate supervision training (i.e a minimum of 8 days training).
- photocopies of logged evidence of the applicant's supervision practice.
- photocopies of logged evidence that the applicant has been and is currently in supervision of their supervision on at least a bi-monthly basis.
- reference from the applicant's supervisor of supervision. This must be on the pro-forma currently approved by ACC and must reflect the experience, competence and good practice of the applicant.
- evidence of an understanding of the context of supervision practice in the form of two short written submissions of 300-500 words each :-
i) 'How does your Agency or Private Practice work?'
Covering issues such as to whom you are accountable, who has line management responsibility for supervision, who decided the Counsellor's workload.
ii) 'Compare and contrast group and individual supervision.'
- evidence of Supervision Practice in the form of two written submissions of 750-1000 words each :-
i) 'Your understanding of the supervisees' counselling model(s) and how you work with it (them).'
Include examples from your work with supervisee(s) to demonstrate how you vary your use of your model(s) to meet their needs (e.g. Practitioner in Training, Accredited Counsellor).
ii) Your supervision model showing 'How your supervision helped the counsellor(s) to move the client(s) forward in the counselling process.' - to provide information on the number of supervisees seen, their status,
length of relationship and give examples of the supervision contract(s)
used.
- photocopies of certificates for the supervision courses completed.
- proof of adequate professional indemnity insurance.
Certification lasts for four years but applicants will be invited to reassess their level of membership after three and a quarter years, to avoid any member having an obsolete certificate. At this point an Accredited Supervisor may apply for a Maintenance certificate which would require:-
- an update on the number of supervisees seen.
- a description of the type of supervision being given (1 to 1 or
group).
- confirmation of the model(s) of supervision used.
- an update on any specific/relevant training
- a reference from the applicant's supervisor of supervision. This
must be
on the pro-forma currently approved by ACC and must reflect the
experience, competence and good practice of the applicant.
- photocopies of logged evidence of the applicant's supervision
practice for one year (normally showing at least 20 hours of practice).
- photocopies of logged evidence that the applicant has been and is
currently in supervision of supervision.
- proof that the applicant is maintaining a personal counselling
case load of at least 50 hours per annum.
- a written submission of 300-500 words describing any
changes/improvements made in your practice as a supervisor as a result
of additional training, experiential learning and reading since your
last supervisor accreditation application.
- proof of adequate professional indemnity insurance.
If further information or clarification is required about accreditation,
please contact the Accreditation Office which
is open between 9am and 1pm, Monday to Friday. Telephone 0845 124 9572
or e-mail accredit@acc-uk.org
