I am currently wrapping up candidate supervision with a psychologist who works half time for the Operational Stress Injury Clinic in Dartmouth. I was contacted on Friday by her manager and it has come to his attention that VAC requires a co-signature on reports in the case of candidate register psychologists. I know NSBEP does not require co-signatures at this level, but VAC apparently does. This rule is being applied quite inconsistently for some reason – many reports, likely depending on the adjudicator assigned, have just been accepted as they stand.

So I am writing to ask if there are any issues or pitfalls I should know about, standards-wise and even liability-wise. I have never been asked to essentially officially stand behind the work of one of my candidate supervisees, so this very unfamiliar territory.

I am currently wrapping up candidate supervision with a psychologist who works half time for the Operational Stress Injury Clinic in Dartmouth. I was contacted on Friday by her manager and it has come to his attention that VAC requires a co-signature on reports in the case of candidate register psychologists. I know NSBEP does not require co-signatures at this level, but VAC apparently does. This rule is being applied quite inconsistently for some reason – many reports, likely depending on the adjudicator assigned, have just been accepted as they stand.

So I am writing to ask if there are any issues or pitfalls I should know about, standards-wise and even liability-wise. I have never been asked to essentially officially stand behind the work of one of my candidate supervisees, so this very unfamiliar territory.