Professional Supervision Pilot for Frontline Staff Psychological Wellbeing

The wellbeing of our people is an ongoing priority for Ara Poutama Aotearoa. The need to procure this service has arisen as our understanding of how to proactively support our personnel�s psychological wellbeing has improved and no current service exists to support this understanding.

Ara Poutama Aotearoa�s senior leadership team also recognises that frontline community staff are asking for increased support in their roles. The intent is to make Professional Supervision available to personnel at risk of work-related psychological harm in the community setting. The goal is to reduce the harm they experience.

Professional Supervision will be made available to non-clinical community personnel in roles dealing with complex individuals and/or regularly exposed to significant graphic material. This will include, but is not limited to, probation officers and senior practitioners. The Department wishes to design and establish a pilot to deliver Professional Supervision across four regions and 119 nominated personnel.

We seek Respondents to join with us in this pilot (Tranche 1). Subject to funding and other approvals, and the success of Tranche 1, the Department wishes to roll-out full scale Professional Supervision to all appropriate personnel. We have a dedicated budget of $90,000 and named personnel for the pilot.

Success of the Tranche 1 participants in this pilot will open the door to a scaled-up roll-out of this across the Department. The expected value of the full roll-out will be $5/6 million over the next 3 to 5 years.