Information for those who supervise pre-registration optometrists or those who would like to become a supervisor.
Administering your supervisor account
Find out how to ensure the College is up-to-date with your supervisory activities.
Clinical Learning in Practice (CLiP)
The My College area for CLiP, and associated CLiP portal is currently under development. All supervisors will need to be approved in the relevant role, and then added to the student's CLiP placement record. This will give access to a wide range of progression and sign-off tools, via a login on My College. Much of this process will be automated - full instructions will be added as they become available.
Scheme for Registration
Principal Supervisors must be added by the trainee in the Scheme for Registration area of My College. Qualified Principal Supervisors appear on the trainee’s searchable list automatically. New Principal Supervisors with less than two years’ post-registration experience will need to contact the College to be added either.
as a Joint Supervisor alongside their identified mentor
as a Principal Supervisor (must include trainee log-books to show supervision across all 8 areas of competence).
Once added, supervisors will receive a notification to accept the trainee, and must do this before the trainee undertakes supervise practice. The supervisors’ My College/Scheme for Registration area will then display trainee progress and visit information.
Additional supervisors will continue to be monitored by assessors through the logbook, and are not added via My College.
Accepting a trainee
For a supervisor to accept a trainee, they must follow these steps:
Trainees can divide their supervision equally between two joint principal supervisors, as long as they both meet the principal supervisor criteria above.
No, trainees will only need to register their principal supervisor/s with the College. Principal supervisors will need to approve all additional supervisors, and each one will need to be noted in the trainee’s logbook.
Yes. All additional supervisors need to be listed in your logbook and we recommend planning ahead to ensure there is always appropriate supervision in place.
There is no limit to the number of trainees an additional supervisor can supervise on a day, however, additional and principal supervisors need to judge how much support each trainee needs and plan adequate supervision accordingly.
We no longer have temporary or secondary supervisors – these are replaced with the additional supervisor role. We recommend trainees have at least one of their additional supervisors signed off by their principal supervisor, as soon as they start.
We encourage trainees and supervisors to be proactive in setting up additional supervision arrangements, to avoid having to make last minute decisions in cases of unexpected illness.
This online course is for those aspiring to become a Principal Supervisor for workplace learners - trainees for the Scheme for Registration and students for CLiP. One CPD point.
This course addresses the duties of supervising by guiding and influencing people. It includes the common challenges you may face as a supervisor. One CPD point.