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LEADERSHIP
The clinical discipline chiefs, the advanced practice group and the clinical leadership
in the program areas have primary responsibility for development of professional
knowledge and skills. The discipline chiefs and the advanced practice group are in
many ways more similar than different in the roles and functions they perform in
the organization. The roles of both groups comprise five interrelated domains:
• practice
• consultation
• education
• research and scholarship
• leadership.
Perhaps the greatest difference between the two groups is that the discipline chiefs
are senior clinicians who lead the entire professional discipline across the organization
and are responsible for ensuring that professional practice standards are
adhered to across camh. The Advanced Practice Nurses or Clinicians (apn/c), also
senior clinicians, work directly in the clinical programs and supervise clinicians
from various disciplines. Members of the discipline chiefs, program clinical leadership
and the advanced practice groups can all have a role in the clinical supervision
of staff. It is important that those responsible for front-line staff be skilled in the area
of clinical supervision in order that job achievement be recognized and acknowledged.
CLINICAL SUPERVISION PRINCIPLES
Clinical supervision at camh is guided by the following interrelated principles:
• organization context and its crucial impact on the nature and quality of clinical
supervision
• improved client outcomes
• accountability
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• advancement of clinicians’ specialized knowledge, skill and use of evidence-based
practice
• learning and professional development.
These principles support the organization’s goals of improved client-centred
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