OAR 877-030-0080: Administrators, Supervisors, and Teachers of Clinical Practice

(1) A regulated social worker serving as an administrator, supervisor, or teacher must promote conditions that foster and support ethical and competent professional performance. (2) Clinical social workers in the role of administrator, supervisor, or teacher may not, under any circumstances, engage in a sexual relationship with a supervisee or student. (3) Clinical social workers in the role of administrator, supervisor, or teacher may not enter into a therapeutic relationship with any employee, supervisee, or student. (4) Clinical social workers in the role of administrator, supervisor, or teacher must explicitly define the conditions of their professional relationship to their supervisees or students. (5) Clinical social workers as an employer, or in the role of administrator, supervisor, or teacher, must support and emphasize the need for formulation, development, enactment, and implementation of policies and agency rules which provide for safeguarding the rights of clients. (6) Clinical social workers as employer, or in the role of administrator, supervisor, or teacher, bear the ethical responsibility for persons practicing under their direct supervision who are not regulated by professional registration, certification, or license.