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Mentoring Skills Training Day – 8th January 2025

The NHS London Leadership Academy is excited to offer a series of four standalone virtual Mentoring Skills training days, designed to empower you with the knowledge and tools to excel as a mentor. Each session runs from 09:00 to 16:00, ensuring a full day of immersive learning.

Upcoming Session:

Date: 8th January 2025

Mentoring is a cornerstone of development within the NHS People Plan, crucial for fostering growth and learning at every organisational level.

Who Should Attend?

Please note that this event is for NHS Staff only

This programme is perfect for:

  • Aspiring mentors who want to make a significant impact.
  • Current mentors seeking to enhance and refine their skills.
  • Individuals interested in joining the NHS London Leadership Academy mentoring hub.

What to Expect

Our interactive and experiential sessions will equip you with the latest mentoring practices and offer valuable opportunities to reflect on and refine your mentoring approach. You will gain or enhance essential mentoring skills, empowering you to mentor with confidence and make a meaningful difference.

Aims & Learning Objectives:

  • Active participation is required, including keeping your camera on throughout the day to earn your certificate of attendance.

Morning Session:

  • Explore various schools of mentoring, understanding their unique characteristics and commonalities.
  • Define the roles, skills, and attitudes of an effective mentor.
  • Learn how to co-create a mentoring contract.
  • Develop partnerships where differentials are redressed to enable the right work to take place.
  • Understand the importance of psychological safety in mentoring relationships.

Afternoon Session:

  • Build key skills and competencies of being a great mentor including
  • Listening skills
  • Questioning skills
  • Moving to action & accountability
  • Work on the reflective practice of being a mentor
  • Explore Ethical practice

Impact of the Mentoring Course

By the end of the course, you will:

  • Confidently establish strong mentoring partnerships.
  • Deliver mentoring services with a solid ethical foundation.
  • Focus effectively on the needs of your mentee.
  • Understand how to seek supervision for your mentoring services.
  • Contribute to a system that values mentors who understand and implement the NHS People Plan.

Next Steps

Join us to become a confident, skilled mentor who can make a real difference in the NHS. Register now to secure your place in the Mentoring Skills Programme!

Upon completion, we encourage mentors to register as volunteers on the London Leadership Academy Mentoring Hub, further extending your impact within the NHS community.

Home (coachingandmentoringhub.nhs.uk)

Booking Confirmations

Your booking is not confirmed until you have received a confirmation email. Joining instructions will be sent as soon as your booking is confirmed.

Please note:

Places are limited so please ensure that if you need to make cancellations you email [email protected] in advance so that your place can be offered to someone else. We will send confirmation of your cancellation by email. Any DNA’s will be monitored and your future bookings may be rejected.

THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED You can request a place on a waiting list by emailing [email protected]

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