REACHING OUT - Mentoring - London Deanery

Contributors
London Deanery International
Mentoring Project – Arti Maini
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead, Social Anthropologist.
These famous words are relevant to our London Deanery-trained
mentors, many of whom have experience of living and/or working
in developing countries and are keen to use their mentoring skills
to support healthcare colleagues in developing countries. Speaking
to these mentors about their experiences and ideas has been
hugely inspiring, and has helped shape an exciting vision for a
unique project.
The London Deanery Coaching and Mentoring Service has
been working closely with partner organisations to develop a
project where volunteer London Deanery trained mentors will
have the opportunity to be matched with and support healthcare
professionals in developing countries through distance mentoring.
These professionals may face a range of challenges including
a lack of information resources, professional isolation, and little
opportunity for continuing professional development, personal
guidance and development of leadership skills. Understandably,
many decide to emigrate in search of better conditions overseas.
There has been growing recognition of this problem over the past
decade and its impact on the delivery of health programmes,
particularly for those in poor and fragile areas.
The goal of our project is to utilise the skills and expertise of
volunteer London Deanery trained mentors to support key
healthcare professionals in developing countries. Through the
fulfilment of professional and personal learning goals, this project
will aim to improve retention of health professionals in their
countries of training and to develop senior leadership capacity.
The future for coaching – Jenny
Rogers
Knowledge and insight about the amazing power of the coaching
approach is spreading. The first of the London Deanery coaches
quickly discovered the value of using it with patients, reporting
back joyfully that it had frequently transformed the quality of the
work they were able to do, especially with patients with chronic
conditions. Now, ‘coaching for health’ has become a catchphrase
whose time has come, potentially saving the health service millions
of pounds and making a positive step-change in doctor-patient
relationships. Coaching as the foundation of a manager’s approach
to staff can create the golden grail of ‘employee engagement’,
a phenomenon which has been shown to correlate highly with
bottom line performance when it is also linked with creating a
‘coaching culture’. So coaching will survive. The need for tough
qualifications will increase. Some kind of regulation may be on the
way.
Reaching out in new directions –
Rebecca Viney
Our joint vision for the future is to continue to embed a coaching
approach across the NHS. Ultimately we aim to reach out beyond
the UK and beyond medicine. Doctors and patients must use the
mindset and skills to transform healthcare provision over the next
decade into one that is sustainable, valuable and effective.
Now that coaching and mentoring are on the map of medicine and
dentistry our next steps will be to develop a set of nationally agreed
coaching and mentoring standards for the medical and dental
profession to use to drive up quality.
And finally, the General Medical Council have introduced
“mentoring” into the draft new duties of a doctor. This gives us the
opportunity to embed quality coaching and mentoring behaviours
and mindset change right from the start of medical education.
Please work with us to take this forward in medical schools around
the world.
Dr Meng Aw-Yong, Associate Specialist
Emergency Medicine, Hillingdon Hospital,
London Deanery coach/mentor
Dr Elisa Bertoja, Consultant Anaesthetist UCLH
and The Heart Hospital, Educational Supervisor
and London Deanery coach/mentor
Dr Paquita de Zulueta, GP, CBT therapist,
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer Imperial
College London, London Deanery coach/mentor
Dr Shirley D’Sa, Consultant Haematologist, TPD
in School of Pathology and London Deanery
coach/mentor
Dr Jane Hawdon, Consultant neonatologist at
UCLH and London Deanery coach/mentor and
trainer
Dr Doug Hing, GP ST4 and Darzi Fellow and
new coach
Dr Farzana Hussain, GP in Newham and new
London Deanery coach/mentor
Mr Tj Lasoye, Director of Medical Education
and Consultant in Emergency Medicine. King’s
College Hospital NHS FT and London Deanery
coach/mentor
Dr Arti Maini, GP and London Deanery coach/
mentor and trainer
Dr Sue Morrison, GP and London Deanery
coach/ mentor and trainer
Dr Sue Morgan, Associate Specialist Elderly
Care Medicine, Croydon University Hospital.
London Deanery coach/mentor and facilitator
Dr Geoff Norris, Locum GP, London Deanery
coach/mentor
Prof Elisabeth Paice, Chair NWL Integrated Care
Pilot, London Deanery coach/mentor
Dr Gillian Robinson, Associate Specialist
Reproductive and Sexual Health, South London.
London Deanery coach/mentor
Jenny Rogers, Executive Director of
Management Futures, author of Coaching Skills:
A Handbook and Adults Learning and series
editor of the OU series, Coaching in Practice
Prof Tom Sensky, Consultant Psychiatrist in
Occupational Health, and London Deanery
Coach/Mentor
Dr Connie Smith GP Tutor and London Deanery
coach/mentor
Dr Rebecca Viney, GP and London Deanery
Coaching and Mentoring Lead, Associate
Dean Workforce Development and Professional
Support Unit
Our volunteer mentors will benefit through ongoing support
(supervision, action learning sets), CPD and skills development
opportunities (e.g. e-mentoring, transcultural mentoring) and
through becoming part of a like-minded community of healthcare
mentors. We envisage a key benefit for volunteer mentors will be
the development and emergence of new perspectives which will
impact on their own work and lives.
We aim to launch this exciting project in the next few months.
Please contact me through mentoring@londondeanery.ac.uk
if you would like to know more or to become involved.
Thank you for being part of the coaching and mentoring
community of practice in London, the NHS and beyond.
Dr Helen Massil, Consultant in Sexual and
Reproductive Health, London Deanery coach/
mentor
Dr Quen Mok Consultant paediatric intensivist
in Great Ormond Street and London Deanery
coach/mentor
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