Leading and Supervising Preservation and Restoration Process – implementation and embedding practice

This course lays out the implementation foundations underpinning good restoration service delivery and practice within teams/units. It is a highly interactive workshop that explores leading structural and cultural changes required as well as supervising restoration casework through leadership, supervision and case consultations.

Stage 1 – 1 day workshop

Content:

• Introduction to foundation ideas underpinning implementation science and practice
• Analysing current assets and areas of development in restoration service delivery utilising an implementation model and research on how to lead required changes
• Exploring technical and adaptive challenges to embedding / enhancing good practice and solution-finding the challenges
• Supervising quality restoration practice through case consultation and group supervision approaches

Practice activities incorporated intensively throughout the one-day program, focussing on:

• Analysis of organisational gaps and challenges to good child protection service delivery implementation, including culture change
• Deep dive into developing solutions and strategies to manage or remove gaps
• Action Learning process to deepen restoration practice
• Knowledge Translation Sheet for ‘homework’ with supervisor

Stage 2 – Group coaching session delivered online

A two hour coaching session is held at 3 or 4 week intervals after the Introductory workshop to bring practitioners and supervisors together to debrief practice experiences, share learning, solution finding for ‘wicked little problems’, and offering further practice opportunities.

Content:

• Debrief Knowledge Translation Sheet for ‘homework’ undertaken with supervisor
• Review restoration practice implementation efforts within each agency and celebrate successes
• Think tank solutions to “wicked little problems” interrupting implementation efforts
• Deepening skills – practicing challenging conversations with stakeholders