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Mentoring is a valuable tool to help personal and professional development and has been shown to improve knowledge, skills and self confidence in a supportive environment.
Mentors get the chance to hone their leadership skills
Mentees get a chance to develop a structured approach to problem solving and gain valuable career enhancing support.
It is promoted by many professional bodies including the GMC, BMA and various Royal Colleges.
At WARD we believe that peer-mentorship is a valuable asset to improving a sense of community and belonging among post-graduate doctors across the region as well as improving the wellbeing of doctors with dedicated peer support.
WARD has developed an ongoing mentorship programme. Post-graduate doctors can be trained in mentoring and then can provide peer-to-peer mentoring across the region.
Mentors will be offered ongoing CPD and support in conjunction with the PSW.
WARD mentors offering support are listed below and can be contacted for support.
It is up to the mentor whether they can offer any mentorship when contacted.
Rules of mentorship:
There is a code of conduct to adhere to between the mentor and the mentee. This is to ensure a good working relationship, trust and safety of both parties.
After each session the anonymous feedback form should be completed, so WARD can assess the amount of mentoring ongoing in the region and provide evidence to the deanery to secure any possible funding, for ongoing mentorship programme and other initiatives.
Mentoring Code of Conduct
It is expected that both mentor and mentor will adhere to the following
principles during the duration of their mentoring relationship:
• Give the other party a minimum of 24 hours' notice if wishing to
cancel a meeting
• Agree at the start of the mentoring relationship how to notify each
other of the need to cancel/rearrange a meeting
(email/WhatsApp/text message)
• Give the other their undivided attention during a meeting i.e. not be
simultaneously answering emails or messages, on another call or
browsing social media
• Be on time for meetings
• Complete the WARD Peer Mentoring form on the WARD website
after each session to ensure WARD can collect feedback about how
much mentoring is happening across the region
• Be polite, respectful and courteous
• Only break confidentiality if either party discloses information which
indicates the other person is at risk of coming to harm, or if patient
safety is compromised - please see the sections of the handbook
entitled “Signposting your mentee + Escalating concerns’ and
“Support for Mentors”
• Consider the use of a mentoring contract to help define
practicalities of the relationship i.e. frequency of meetings/methods
of contact/boundaries/how to end the relationship
A WARD Peer Mentor will:
• Act as a trusted confidant over a flexible period of time agreed by both
parties and negotiated as needed e.g. monthly meetings for six
months
• Offer an outside perspective to the mentee on their work
• Listen, confidentially to the things that are worrying their mentee
about their work
• Help their mentee by sharing their own experiences, challenges,
successes and failures
• Give friendly, unbiased support
• Provide honest and constructive feedback
• Be a sounding board for ideas
• Help their mentee with decision making by suggesting alternatives
based on personal experiences
• Provide their mentee with access to contacts and networks as
appropriate that may help the mentee further their personal
development
• Provide ongoing support and encouragement
• Not take on the role of a counsellor/coach
• Not provide a training service
• Not take away the mentee’s responsibility for their own work
A WARD Peer Mentee will:
• Take the lead in arranging meetings
• Define what they would like to get from the mentoring scheme before
the first meeting with their mentor, i.e. their agenda
• Remain responsible for their own learning/work/training/projects
• Be encouraged to come up with their own solutions to the
issues/problems identified
• Be open to their mentor’s perspective/advice/feedback/challenge
• Not be officially bound by any contract to do anything their mentor
suggests
• Maintain professional boundaries with their mentor (as defined during
the first mentoring meeting)
Current list of mentors:
Rosie Palfrey: rosie.palfrey1@nhs.net - ST6 O&G Exeter
Khin Kay Kay Kyaw: k.kaykyaw@nhs.net - Cardiology specialist registrar
Priyanka Belaguthi: pbelaguthi@gmail.com - IMT2, Royal Cornwall Hospital
Chuk: dr.chuk@doctors.org.uk - IMT3 SpR (COTE/Acute Medicine), Bristol Royal Infirmary
Laura Goodall: Laura.goodall2@nhs.net - Locum at Derriford
Hannah Crowley: hannah.crowley3@nhs.net - ENT F2 doctor at GRH
Hannah Bond: hannah.bond@nhs.net - ST7 Clinical Oncology
Rose Arkell: rose.arkell@nhs.net - ST5 anaesthetics
Ben Hylton: hyltonbnj@gmail.com - ST7 ICM, Bristol
Any Savva: andysavva@doctors.org.uk - ST7 Anaesthetic, Derriford
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