Graduate Certificate in Professional Supervision

About this course

The Graduate Certificate in Professional Supervision is designed for those qualified in ministry/theology or an allied helping profession and with professional experience, who wish to pursue a further qualification in the area of supervisory practice. 

The Graduate Certificate in Professional Supervision focuses on building supervisory knowledge, skills and acumen for people involved in a wide scope of pastoral vocations. 

Graduates will have specific knowledge/skills/acumen in supervisory practice added to their lived experience, training, and professional expertise which will allow them to serve their colleagues, enhance their professions, and up-hold community expectations of best practice.

This award is not approved for CRICOS study.

  • Study Mode: Full Time, Part Time,

  • Credit Points: 36 (4 units)

  • Award Level: AQF Level 8

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Australian College of Ministries
  • NSW
  • Domestic
Perth Bible College
  • WA
  • Domestic
  • International

Course Details

Admission to candidature into the Graduate Certificate in Professional Supervision requires:

  • a three-year AQF 7 award in the field of philosophy and religious studies (Australian Standard Classification of Education field 0917 – Philosophy and Religious Studies) from an institution recognised by Academic Board; OR
  • a three-year AQF 7 award in the field of social work, social science, counselling or psychology from an institution recognised by Academic Board; OR
  • Qualifications from a university or other tertiary institution, approved by the Student Support and Administration Committee as equivalent to such an award; AND
  • At least 5 years of professional experience within a helping profession and a recommendation from their employer, professional association, or ordaining body; AND
  • A valid Police Check, if required; AND
  • Satisfactorily completing a pre-enrolment interview with a relevant course advisor.

 

English Proficiency

Applicants whose entry qualifications were obtained in an institution where English is not the language of instruction normally require a minimum IELTS (or equivalent) result of 7.0 with no score less than 6.5 in all bands of the test.

The Graduate Certificate in Professional Supervision requires the completion of 36 credit points (4 units) which shall include:

 

  • C8170 Fundamental Principles of Pastoral Supervision;
  • P8105 Foundations of Ethical Professional Practice;
  • C8175 Professional Supervisory Practice
  • One additional unit as required to complete the award from the Schedule below.

 

If compulsory units have been completed in the award used for admission into the Graduate Certificate in Professional Supervision, they are to be replaced with one or two appropriate electives.

 

Units coded “A” are not counted towards a concentration or specialisation in any discipline or subdiscipline.

 

SCHEDULE 

  • P8172 Practice of Pastoral Supervision
  • C8170 Fundamental Principles of Pastoral Supervision
  • P8176 Introduction to Supervisory Practice
  • C8166 Well-being and Resilience for People Helpers
Knowledge

Graduates will have:

  • specialised theoretical and technical knowledge related to the practice of supervision so as to develop high quality practitioners amongst their supervisees and thus uphold professional/community standards of best practice;
  • an ability to use evidence-based frameworks to critique their own practice and the practice of their supervisees.

 

Skills

Graduates will demonstrate advanced cognitive, technical, pastoral, and communication skills so that they are able to:

  • analyse and evaluate various forms of information (e.g., professional, legal, lived-experience), so as to competently apply a range of supervisory interventions;
  • help supervisees analyse, generate, and develop solutions to complex problems;
    transmit knowledge and skills coherently to supervisees;
  • take-on the various roles required of a supervisor including the application of pastoral skills.

 

Applications of Knowledge and Skills

Graduates will possess the ability to apply knowledge and skills in a way that demonstrates their:

  • autonomy
  • well-developed professional judgement (i.e., acumen)
  • adaptability to the needs of their supervisees,
  • professional and community responsibilities.

A candidate may seek credit for previous accredited study and/or Recognised Prior Learning up to a maximum of 9 credit points in the Graduate Certificate of Professional Supervision.

 

Special consideration for credit (up to 18 credit points) may be given to Clinical Pastoral Education students if the Student Support and Administration Committee deems any CPE units on the University College Register of Units as equivalent to the units required for this Course.

 

Credit will be granted for units that are from an equivalent award or institution and have outcomes, content, demand hours, and assessment equivalent to that of units in the Graduate Certificate of Professional Supervision.

 

Progress to Further Awards

Students who complete the Graduate Certificate in Professional Supervision are eligible to articulate to the Graduate Diploma in Professional Supervision or the Master of Professional Supervision of the Sydney College of Divinity.

This award is not approved for CRICOS study.
The Graduate Certificate in Professional Supervision is offered through the individual colleges and an application for enrolment must be made to the Registrar of the teaching institution. The registrar will be able to help you with any information regarding your study, including fees, units, mode of delivery and timetable.

 

A student is designated as full-time if enrolled in three units (27 credit points) or more in a semester or the equivalent in a trimester. Sydney College of Divinity offers a wide range of units and students have the option to study one or more units across the colleges delivering Sydney College of Divinity awards, whilst enrolled with one college.

 

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