The conduct of an accredited supervisor will be examined at accreditation and again at five yearly reviews. Each member and Accredited Pastoral Supervisor accepts that it is at all times imperative to conduct oneself in a manner which is a credit to their profession and in accordance with the following general principles.

Any accredited Pastoral Supervisor is required to:

1. only accept supervisees who are aware of the role and relationship provided by supervision, making that clear through a contracting-in process either in writing, or by verbal agreement, or ideally both;
2. contract the terms of confidentiality and maintain clear professional boundaries;
3. explain and agree the role of supervision in fostering and developing a supervisee’s professional development and monitoring their fitness to practice; and the action the supervisor will take when fitness to practice has been compromised;
4. act immediately, and in accordance with the law, if a supervisee discloses information relating to risk of harm to self or others;
5. act with due respect for integrity and difference, including sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, disability, or gender;
6. in matters relating to the wellbeing of a supervisee, act solely in the interests of the supervisee;
7. use their professional judgment to encourage supervisees who require further support to seek that support for themselves, whether through spiritual guidance, counselling, medical attention, or some other source of support;
8. maintain regular and sufficient supervision for the supervisor or educator’s own practice and workload; [1]
9. be appropriately insured for any supervision work undertaken;
10.  engage in regular professional development activities.

[1] It is expected that Accredited Supervisors would receive a minimum of one hour of supervision for every eight hours of providing supervision.