Legacy Mentor

We are looking for experienced health and social care professionals with extensive experience in their field.
- 1x Midwife Legacy Mentor - 22.5 hours per week - Based at Colchester
- 1x AHP Legacy Mentor - 22.5 hours per week - Cross Site work required

Fixed Term/Secondment for 12 months

As a Legacy Mentor, you will be helping newly qualified nurses, midwives and AHPs, and those in other clinical roles by imparting knowledge, skills and experience through coaching and supporting them in the early stages of their career.

You will need to demonstrate empathy and patience, be passionate about the profession and be able to provide pastoral support to others.

This role is key in supporting all colleagues to stay in the Trust and stay well. Legacy mentors need to be confident in building relationships and collaborating with others. You will provide coaching and mentoring and will be given any necessary training to develop these skills.

Legacy mentors may work in a range of specialisms or environments across the health and social care spectrum using a coaching model. In addition to mentoring newly qualified midwives they will also support in practice environments for learners and liaise with other practice placement support staff to ensure consistency of support across the setting, working within clinical practice in a supernumerary capacity.

One of the largest Trusts in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.