Interprofessional supervision: strengthening clinical supervision by utilising commonalities across profession

All health professions are unified by having the client at their core. Clinical supervision provides healthcare workers with opportunities to work across professional boundaries. Interprofessional supervision occurs when the supervisee and supervisor have different professional backgrounds. Unpacking this concept is likely to enhance healthcare workers’ understanding, and therefore its use. In this paper, the authors use the well-recognised Proctor’s model of clinical supervision, to reflect on the tendencies of different professions to embrace different aspects of clinical supervision (e.g., direct and reflective aspects), and recommend strategies for healthcare workers from different professions to collaborate more in the supervision context.