Exciting opportunity to become an iHV Leadership Mentor
Your profession needs you!
You may be aware of our CPD-accredited and acclaimed iHV Leading Excellence in Practice programme to support future SCPHN leaders. This programme aims to ensure we have strong leadership for our profession into the future.
We are seeking experienced practitioners to get involved and support this work by becoming iHV Leadership Mentors. Our current Mentors enjoy great reciprocal relationships with our candidates and speak positively of the experience of working with their mentees from our programme, with many reporting they also gain much from the meetings.
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Leadership mentoring provides future leaders with a forum for setting, discussing and dissecting a path to leadership with someone who has walked that path before.
There are numerous benefits for experienced health visitors in becoming iHV Leadership Mentors. They include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The opportunity to work with the Institute of Health Visiting and gain valuable skills in mentoring for leadership.
- Support colleagues’ leadership learning to help them develop their professional competence and confidence, and equip them for SCPHN leadership into the future.
- Enjoy the privilege to act as a resource to facilitate personal and professional development of others, along with the responsibility of helping health visitor leaders translate theory into practice - making what is learned on their courses a reality.
- Benefit from two-way learning by working alongside practitioners with different perspectives and generations of SCPHNs, which will provide an opportunity to enhance your own practice using this insight.
- Develop your leadership capability to help to shape the profession’s leadership of the future
What being an iHV Leadership Mentor involves:
- Attending half-day online workshop about the iHV Leadership Mentor role.
- Providing a short bio on yourself to share with your mentee.
- Being allocated a mentee who is participating in the iHV Leading Excellence in Practice Leadership Programme.
- Provide 4 x one-hour virtually-delivered mentorship meetings for one candidate.
The role of the Mentors for this programme is to:
- Act as a ‘critical friend’ – a mentor is able to offer guidance, support and form a positive one-to-one relationship with their mentee.
- Provide encouragement and guidance using a range of approaches to support the mentee in their development as a future leader.
- Create a supportive, challenging and reflective learning environment during the one-to-one sessions to help them focus on their strengths and areas for development.
- Guide (but not direct) the mentee to support their personal development in line with the learning outcomes of the iHV Leading Excellence in Practice Programme.
- To be an Associate Member of the iHV (or willing to become one before the role starts)
- To be an experienced SCPHN (minimum of 3 years)
- To be passionate about leadership within Specialist Community Public Health Nursing and experienced in a clinical or specialist role
- To be able to attend new mentor-relevant workshops
- To be able to support one mentee at a given time
- To have agreement from your employer to participate and provide mentorship in the future.
If you are interested in applying to be an iHV Leadership Mentor, please contact us for more information.