ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with cross discipline group supervision. It describes
how, at the request of their local NHS Trust, two mental health nursing tutors
provided a series of group supervision sessions to registered general nurses
who were about to take on the role of clinical supervisor for the first time. It
shows how the groups were established, illustrates some of the experiences of
being in this group, and identifies some of the issues that arose, mainly during
the early stages. It draws attention to one particularly important issue, which
is that some novice supervisees may be discouraged from participating in
supervision if their supervisor is from a different discipline. However,
exposure to and experience of supervision provides such novices with an
awareness that the supervisor’s skill in providing supportive, reflective and
challenging supervision is more important than sharing the same discipline.
