2010 SchemeBriefing Presentation

– Definition of Mentoring– Aims– Structure / Responsibilities– Quality standards– Recruitment– Matching– Mentor support and development– Evaluation results

What will be covered

Mentoring is a long-term, voluntary relationship between two individuals, with the purpose of providing personal and professional development, support and challenge

Our Definition

Scheme Aims

• To broaden perspective and approaches to issues, increasing organisational creativity and innovation and supporting change.

• To improve strategic thinking and decision making by providing a neutral and objective view, unbiased by ‘institutional’ thinking.

• To develop partnership working in the public sector, through providing opportunities for appropriate individuals to network and learn across organisational boundaries.

Scheme Aims

• To provide a supportive framework for individual development.

• To widen choices for individual development, complementing internal mentoring schemes and other development opportunities.

• To support member organisations’ initiatives to develop specific staff groups, where consistent with the principles of the scheme.

Structure of the Scheme

Management Committee

Organisational Co-ordinators

Project Leader

Mentor and Mentee Reps.

Organisations involved in Yorkshire Accord

City of York Council

Hambleton & Richmond District Councils

Harrogate Borough Council

North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service

North Yorkshire Police

North Yorks & York Primary Care Trust

Ryedale District Council

Scarborough Borough Council

Selby District Council

The University of York

York College

York St John University

Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Quality

April 2002 – one of first 50 in UK

– Aims and Structure– Recruitment and Selection– Mentor Preparation, Training and Support– Monitoring and Evaluation– Equality of Opportunity

Re-accredited in October 2005

Quality

• September 2007

National Training Awards – Highly Commended

“resulted in impressive outcomes for participants and might be considered as a model which could be reproduced for local and regional public bodies across not only the country but also internationally.”

National Training Awards Ceremony Nov 07

Recruitment, Matching & Training

• Organisational Publicity from October

• Applications submitted in November

• Training – Mentee Training– Initial Mentoring Skills– Advanced Mentoring

• Matching by Management Committee– Mentors and mentees will be notified of their match in January– Mentors to contact mentees before their training, arranging first meeting

in late January / early February.

Development, Support and Networking

–Project Leader–Organisational Co-ordinator–Website www.yorkshireaccord.co.uk

–CPD Programme

Evaluation 2008

Satisfied with their mentoring match- 92% of participants

Personal benefits from mentoring – 100% of participants

Benefit from cross-organisational mentoring – 98% of participants

Evaluation 2008 Comments

– Highly valuable to not only the individual participants, but also to the respective organisations who will be gaining significant extra benefit from participating staff members (mentor)

– I have had a difficult year professionally and I have found my mentor to be very supportive, helping me to gain perspective on issues and identify action points which I can address (mentee)

– For me the best part of the scheme is networking with other mentors and my mentee – sharing best practice and ideas (mentor)

– I have found it very useful for help with directing / evaluating and grounding at a time when I am undertaking

major changes in my life (mentee)

For More Information

• Visit the Staff Information Point• The Yorkshire Accord Website

www.yorkshireaccord.co.uk • Or contact

– Karen Hickman

Staff Development Adviser

Ext 6463

k.hickman@yorksj.ac.uk