Support for individuals
Welcome to the support for individuals section of the website. Whatever stage you are currently at in your career, various support mechanisms are available and listed here.
Clinical Leadership 360
Clinical Leadership 360 is a newly developed multisource feedback tool for leadership development. This is an exciting new web-based tool which provides participants with a bound, collated report and a 1:1 coaching session about their leadership behaviours and how they can enhance these in the future.
For more information please click here for the Clinical Leadership 360 section of the website.
The Network
The Network is an free online community and network for medical students and junior doctors with an interest in clinical leadership and medical management. It will keep you up to date with new developments in clinical leadership and you can set up regular email updates to be delivered straight to you inbox. If you are interested and wish to register, please click here.
Coaching and mentoring
Coaching and mentoring has an important role in personal leadership development.
The London Deanery's Coaching and Mentoring Service has been created to put London's NHS doctors and dentists interested in receiving mentoring in touch with trained and experienced mentors who are supported in their roles. The coaching and mentoring programme enables you to work with your mentor in complete confidence about professional, work life balance or career issues. Your mentor will be trained and experienced. Click here to find out more about the Coaching and Mentoring Service.
All London NHS doctors and dentists are eligible to apply for mentoring, and in addition to the groups we usually offer funding to, we are currently able to offer fully funded mentoring for any doctor or dentist moving into a new leadership position.
To apply for a mentor, please click here. You will be taken to our confidential, secure online application form.
You will be offered a choice of mentors, and we will conduct a detailed telephone interview with each applicant to facilitate that choice.
Training in coaching and mentoring skills
Leadership often involves managing a team succesfully and coaching and mentoring skills can help this.
The Deanery Coaching and Mentoring Service is now able to offer coaching and mentoring skills training to groups and individuals. In order to attend, you will need to be an experienced educator employed by the NHS within London, a Darzi Fellow, an appraiser, or in a leadership position.
Please click here for more details about Coaching and Mentoring courses.
Introverted Leadership Toolkit
The Introverted Leadership Toolkit has been produced for introverted leaders and those who coach, manage, support and work with them. The material is drawn from a study of approximately 40 introverted leaders who completed questionnaires and 15 extended interviews in 2010.
For more information and for access to the toolkit, please click here.
Bursaries for Medical Leadership Students
A new bursary scheme for MSc Medical Leadership students has been launched, generously funded by Birkbeck College. Nine bursaries of £1,000 have been awarded to this year's MSc students, and Birkbeck have agreed to offer more bursaries in 2011. The MSc in Medical Leadership was developed in response to the pressure on more doctors to enter senior management positions. The programme is open to senior doctors of any specialty and aims to give them a background to, and critical appreciation of, the field of organisational leadership and management. Full details of the programme are available on the RCP website, or contact the programme coordinator, Siobhan Sparkes-McNamara on siobhan.sparkes-mcnamara@rcplondon.ac.uk
Booking forms and facilitator profiles are available for download. If you have any queries about a course or how to book, please contact them via mentoring@londondeanery.ac.uk or call us on 020 7866 3242.