Welcome to the Leadership Mentor page, which exists to support our South West region Clinical Leadership Mentors. These unique and important appointments have been created to foster and nurture the interest of all our medical trainees in leadership and management as they progress through their postgraduate training.
A Clinical Leadership Mentor has been appointed in every trust in the south west region and will be the focal point for RD’s as they work within trusts and seek leadership and management development. Please refer to our list of Clinical Leadership Mentors (CLMs) for details on each region.
Your role
Clinical Leadership Mentors will signpost RD’s towards suitable quality improvement and leadership opportunities within and around their trusts. In accordance with the ’70:20:10′ model (now widely accepted as a useful framework for learning), this might include training courses, such as those offered by the NHS Leadership Academy South West and the national NHS Leadership Academy. Courses and programmes are also offered by NHS – SW. Clinical Leadership Mentors can link RD’s with shadowing opportunities (of NHS Graduate Management Trainees, or senior managers, or even Trust Board members) in order to further develop their leadership awareness. They’ll also be helping RD’s to engage in quality improvement projects and activities around their trusts. And the Clinical Leadership Mentors will foster leadership, coaching and mentoring for their RD’s.
There are three helpful frameworks to inform your work and you’ll find these under the ‘Informal Learning Opportunities’ button of the website. Feel free to use these flexibly for your trainees.
Why are we doing this?
Most doctors agree that a sizeable part of their medical role includes good communications, teamwork, the ability to influence senior leaders in their organisations, to work cooperatively with colleagues and to be able to call upon a range of management techniques, such as project planning, financial understanding and the ability to construct a business plan. They’d argue that these things are not additional to their medical jobs, but very much a part of them. That’s why the GMC has suggested that Royal Colleges should be thinking about how these personal skills can be nurtured and assessed in training, because to leave it until doctors take up a senior medical role is to leave it too late. In fact, the FMLM has been working with the GMC to design a suggested curriculum for Medical Schools to use in order to generate leadership thinking right at the start of training.
How we will support you
There are regular network meetings for you.
We have two independent Project Support Officers, Louise Hardy and Caroline Taplin.
List of Clinical Leadership Mentors
| First name | Surname | Trust | Region | |
| Maung | Oakarr | maung.oakarr@nhs.net | Livewell SW | Peninsula |
| Jess | Patten | jessica.patten@nhs.net | Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Peninsula |
| Rob | Poulter | robpoulter@nhs.net | Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust | Peninsula |
| Jeremy | Sandbrook | jeremy.sandbrook@nhs.net | Cornwall Partnership | Peninsula |
| Liam | Kevern | liam.kevern@nhs.net | Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust | Peninsula |
| Philip | Coates | philip.coates@nhs.net | University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust | Peninsula |
| Subhash | Gupta | subhash.gupta@nhs.net | Devon Partnership NHS Trust | Peninsula |
| Post to be Filled | Post to be Filled | Torbay & South Devon FT | Peninsula | |
| Dr Deborah | Burton | deborah.burton4@nhs.net | Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS FT | Severn |
| Angus | Waddell | angus.waddell1@nhs.net | Great Western Hospitals NHS FT | Severn |
| Dr Alia | Medniuk | alia.medniuk@nhs.net | North Bristol NHS Trust | Severn |
| Jay | Suntharalingam | jay.suntharalingam@nhs.net | Royal United Hospitals Bath (Lead CLM) | Severn |
| Fenella | Shelton | fenella.shelton@somersetft.nhs.uk | Somerset NHS FT | Severn |
| Linda | Heaney | linda.heaney@SomersetFT.nhs.uk | Somerset NHS FT (CLM) | Severn |
| Dr Anne | Frampton | anne.frampton@uhbw.nhs.uk | University Hospitals Bristol & Weston (CLM) | Severn |
| Sarah | Waters | sarah.waters@ydh.nhs.uk | Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Severn |
| Manesh | Chattopadhyay | mchattopadhyay@nhs.net | Avon & Wiltshire Health Partnership | Severn |
| Theresa | Tattan | theresa.tattan@nhs.net | Avon & Wiltshire Health Partnership | Severn |
| Ross | Runciman | ross.runciman@ghc.nhs.uk | Gloucestershire Health & Care FT | Severn |