Are you a researcher who could share your knowledge and experiences?

Do you have experiences which could benefit researchers who are earlier along their career pathway than yourself?

Could you help others face challenges you have overcome?

The Health and Care Research Wales Faculty is looking for mentors to support the Faculty Mentoring Scheme. 

They're looking for mentors who can provide different experiences and perspectives for mentees who may be facing challenges along their career pathway. Perhaps you have learning from your experiences in any of the following which would help a mentee:

• Navigating their next career move
• Developing their leadership skills
• Building networks and collaborations
• Developing and managing their research team
• Moving into academia from a NHS or social care practice background

As a Faculty mentor you would:

• Be formally matched to your mentee(s) to enable the best fit between mentee and mentor pairs.
• Have the opportunity to engage in a series of supportive, goal-orientated discussions with a mentee(s) in areas where you have more experience and act as a guide and advisor.
• Have access to support and training opportunities to perfect your mentoring skills and get peer support throughout the programme.
• Provide a minimum of six hours mentoring support over a 12 month period

Complete the Faculty mentor profile form so the team can match you with a suitable mentee.

The privilege of someone being open and honest about their challenges and aspirations. We can tend towards being closed-book with people we don't know - this was refreshingly different." David Bosanquet 

Being a mentor has helped me develop my own active listening and other communication skills. I am privileged to mentor a number of people from different health care professions, at varying stages in their research careers. They all have different needs from me as a mentor, and I have to adapt my mentorship skills accordingly. I thrive on seeing people develop and achieve their personal career goals." Professor Ceri Battle

Sharing experiences and insights on issues - with the aim of helping others - can be very rewarding." Professor Dyfrig Hughes

I've enjoyed it and being able to help an earlier or mid-career researcher to develop and navigate their next career steps, both immediate issues and longer-term strategic development and progression. It is enjoyable and rewarding working with the individual and also for contributing back to the discipline as a whole." Professor Adrian Edwards