Introduction to Consumer and Family/Carer Perspective Supervision

Self-directed online training

Event description

This course is a self-paced e-learning module that provides an Introduction to Consumer and Family/Carer Perspective Supervision for non-LEW managers, co-ordinators and team leaders who manage and support the lived experience workforces (LEWs). The course may also be helpful to those new to the LEWs or who work alongside the LEWs.

Throughout this module you will explore:
• what Consumer and Family/Carer Perspective Supervision are and what they are not
• the Consumer Perspective and Family/Carer Perspective Supervision frameworks
• benefits of Consumer and Family/Carer Perspective Supervision
• the risks of Consumer and Family/Carer workers not accessing discipline-specific supervision
• how you can support LEWs to access and participate in Consumer and Family/Carer Perspective Supervision

Definitions:
- Non-LEW managers, co-ordinators and team leaders are people who work in operational, administrative or clinical roles and who do not intentionally work from a lived experience perspective.

- Lived Experience Workforces (LEWs) are the collective of the Consumer and Family/Carer workforces. These two different workforces are unique disciplines, in which workers are in paid positions that require intentionally using their personal lived experiences of mental health challenges, or supporting consumers and families or carers, in mental health services/systems. LEW roles may provide direct support through peer support or advocacy, or indirectly through leadership, system advocacy, education and research.