Exciting opportunity to become an iHV Leadership Mentor

24th August 2022

Our CPD-accredited, iHV Leading Excellence in Practice programme, to support future SCPHN leaders, 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.

“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.”

Benefits to health visitors in becoming iHV Leadership Mentors:

The opportunity to work with the Institute of Health Visiting and gain valuable skills in mentoring for leadership
Able to 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 professions’ leadership of the future
A free place at the iHV annual leadership conference as thank you for your support

What being an iHV leadership mentor involves:

Attending a 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 virtually delivered mentorship meetings of one hour 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 mentees
Provide encouragement and guidance using a range of approaches to support the mentees in their development as future leaders
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

Criteria to be an iHV Leadership Mentor:

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 the workshop on the 22 November 9.00 -13.00
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

We have cohorts waiting for your mentorship! Bring your expertise and experience to our iHV Mentorship panel. We offer places at selected conferences and honorariums in recognition of the contributions made by our mentors.