Guide to Enhancing Wellbeing produced by MMI
The team at the RCVS Mindmatters Initiative have produced a wellbeing guide for the veterinary workplace Continue reading
The team at the RCVS Mindmatters Initiative have produced a wellbeing guide for the veterinary workplace Continue reading
Do you feel trapped in practice with little control over your working environment? Are your ideas and vision for the practice ignored or sidelined by the practice leaders? This great blog by Caroline Pearson contains some practical tips to help Continue reading
In this blog for Vetsnet, Alison Lambert of Onswitch discusses the important considerations if you’re thinking of moving from employee to employer, financial and otherwise. Continue reading
One aim of the Vet Futures initiative (pg38) is to create an intra-professional mentoring scheme. A few schemes already exist, but provision is still lacking for the majority. Several individuals and companies have taken up the mantle and are now providing expert, robust mentoring schemes. These are largely aimed at new graduates. However, there is an increasing need for mentoring of those progressing higher up the chain to provide effective, dynamic leadership.
Mentoring cannot be undertaken half-heartedly if it is to be truly effective. As a starting point, take a look at this presentation written by coaching and business development experts, People and Performance, and the subsequent advice blogs for mentors and mentees. If this is to be undertaken in house by practices, there needs to be a commitment and contracted agreement what to expect during the process. Done properly, it will be time costly, and it may prove more effective and less costly overall to out-source to external expert providers – see below for details.
Vetpol also have some great blogs on mentoring, a webinar and links to external resources.
Mentoring/Leadership schemes:
Graduate mentoring
BSAVA are launching a pilot Mentoring Scheme Spring 2018, but HURRY you need to apply soon!
Dr. Dave Nichols, vet and veterinary business consultant has set up VetX; short for vet graduate accelerator programme designed specifically to help develop new graduates in their first year.
University College Dublin, have trialled a pilot scheme click here for info.
Leadership training
General mentoring
The Vets Christian Fellowship offer an informal mentoring scheme to provide support to members.
Informal mentoring is better than nothing! If you have connected well with a vet during EMS, or a fellow student a year or two ahead of you, you could request they provide you with peer support when you graduate.
New Graduate Schemes: