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. Counselling Practitioner, Accredited Counsellor).
ii) Your supervision model showing 'How your supervision helped the counsellor(s) to move the client(s) forward in the counselling process.' - agreement to undertake appropriate Continued Professional Development (CPD): a minimum of 25 hours per annum.
- 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 one year but applicants will be invited to reassess their level of membership each November, to avoid any member having an obsolete certificate. At this point an Accredited Supervisor may apply for a Maintenance certificate which would require:-
To apply for a Maintenance certificate which would require:-
i) to be a member of ACC
ii) evidence and record of 25 hours CPD over the year
iii) confirmation of abiding by ethics and practice
iv) declaration re Sex Offenders register, Convictions and Complaints
v) signature from Christian leader
vi) signature from Supervisor
vii) signature from Supervisor of Supervision
If further information or clarification is required about accreditation, please contact theACC Office, which is open between 9.30am and 4:30pm, Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Telephone 0845 124 9569024 7644 9694or e-mail