Scope & Ethics
Role distinction, confidentiality, boundaries, dual relationships, purposeful self-disclosure, consent, and use of authority.
Protect the participant and develop the worker
Peer Supervision
Peer supervision is where scope, ethics, documentation, skill, well-being, recovery maintenance, professional identity, and organizational accountability meet before drift becomes harm.
Participant Safety
Warning signs, crisis routing, mandated duties where applicable, escalation, incident review, and safe transition.
Practice Skill
Engagement, mutuality, advocacy, support mapping, action planning, groups, community connection, and repair.
Documentation
Truthful, timely, person-centered notes that identify peer action, participant response, outcome, plan link, and next step.
Worker Well-Being
Activation, grief, stress, burnout, countertransference-like reactions, recovery maintenance, workload, and support.
Professional Development
Competency ratings, remediation, training, career goals, certification/renewal tracking, preceptor development, and leadership.
Standard supervision meeting
A repeatable agenda that leaves evidence.
Check-in & Fitness for Duty
Current well-being, activation, recovery-support needs, workload, conflicts, and urgent safety issues.
Supervision receiptDecision, feedback, action owner, timeline, and review point.
Case / Service Review
Participant goals, barriers, peer actions, outcomes, boundaries, coordination, and unresolved risk.
Supervision receiptDecision, feedback, action owner, timeline, and review point.
Documentation & Data Review
Timeliness, role-safe language, plan linkage, closed-loop outcomes, required corrections, and trends.
Supervision receiptDecision, feedback, action owner, timeline, and review point.
Skill Development
Observation, role play, feedback, modeling, practice assignment, or review of a difficult interaction.
Supervision receiptDecision, feedback, action owner, timeline, and review point.
Ethics / Scope Decision
Clarify what belongs to the peer, another role, a supervisor, a clinician, emergency response, HR, compliance, or leadership.
Supervision receiptDecision, feedback, action owner, timeline, and review point.
Action & Follow-Up
Named owner, due date, evidence, monitoring level, next supervision date, and escalation when needed.
Supervision receiptDecision, feedback, action owner, timeline, and review point.
Supervisor responsibilities
- Verify authority and required qualifications.
- Protect participant safety and role integrity.
- Review work proportionate to worker readiness and risk.
- Give specific feedback and require correction.
- Document remediation and escalate persistent problems.
- Support development without becoming the peer’s therapist.
Peer responsibilities
- Bring uncertainty before acting outside scope.
- Disclose errors, boundary concerns, conflicts, and safety issues promptly.
- Complete required documentation and corrections.
- Practice assigned skills and bring evidence back.
- Maintain certification/credential and training requirements.
- Protect personal recovery and professional fitness.