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The endorsement pathway at PBS Supervision Australia is designed as a developmental, supervision-embedded process, rather than a one-off assessment exercise. Each stage builds on the practitioner’s existing supervision history and demonstrated practice over time.
Following the initial review of your self-assessment, the supervisor works collaboratively with you to examine how your ratings align with your demonstrated practice within supervision.
This conversation focuses on:
Where development is required, these areas are translated into practical, operational goals. Together, we develop SMART goals that clearly define:
These goals are then embedded into ongoing supervision sessions, ensuring development is active, structured, and clinically grounded.
Once development goals have been addressed through supervision and applied clinical work, a re-appraisal of the self-assessment is undertaken.
At this stage, the supervisee:
This ensures that endorsement is considered only once capability has been demonstrated consistently, rather than anticipated or aspirational.
The submitted portfolio is reviewed in detail against the capability framework relevant to the practitioner’s target level.
As part of this process, the supervisor provides written feedback outlining:
Feedback is proportionate to practitioner level and framed to support continued professional development, regardless of whether endorsement is immediately granted.
The endorsement decision is informed by both:
This integrated review ensures endorsement decisions are based on real-world practice, not solely written artefacts.
A final endorsement decision is made based on demonstrated capability across supervision and portfolio evidence.
Where endorsement criteria are met:
Where further development is required:
This approach ensures endorsement decisions are transparent, defensible, and aligned with best-practice expectations, while remaining supportive and development-focused.
