Does everyone need a mentor?

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I’m Anne Budenberg, and I’m a dentist with over 30- years' experience in NHS and private practice, including roles in secondary care, dental education, risk management and mentoring.

I started this podcast to show the diversity of views, and choices dentists and dental care professionals can, and do make, on their career paths, and about creating a fulfilling career. This is for anyone interested in UK dental careers - for those working, or planning to work as a dentist or dental care professional in the UK. Dental careers are no longer simply linear, or binary choices, but we have many possibilities for hopping on and off whichever career path, or ‘squiggly career,’ you chose to take.

Sometimes the path is planned; at other times, it takes unexpected twists and turns, and you end up at a place you did not expect to find yourself.

‘Squiggly careers’ is a phrase coined by career development consultants, Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, and I love this concept, and the fact that every ‘squiggly career’ will be drawn differently, and is unique.

We’ll be exploring some of the opportunities, challenges, and adapting to change throughout your career, as the landscape changes.

In this episode I'm speaking to Dr. Janine Brooks MBE

D.Med Eth, MSc, FFGDP(UK), MCDH, DDPHRCS, FAcadMed, BDS

Janine retired from the NHS in June 2011 (following redundancy) and went on to develop her own business. Prior to that she was a dentist for 27 years, both as a clinician and latterly in strategic, national roles. She remains active within post graduate education where she provides lectures and tutorials on a wide range of topics to include communication, professionalism, ethics, reflective practice, mentoring/coaching and leadership. She is a registration assessment panelist for the General Dental Council; Director of Dental Coaching Academy: CEO of Dentalia Coaching and Training Consultancy; Co-Founder of Dental Mentors UK; Trustee of the Dentists’ Health Support Trust; Author; MBTI practitioner, Trustee of the NHS Retirement Fellowship and a Fellow for the Society of British Dental Nurses.

Her specific interests are in education, coaching, mentoring and medical ethics. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators and an Honorary Fellow of the College of General Practice. She currently privately coach/mentors a number of dentists (and some doctors) in personal development, leadership, career development and fitness to practise remediation. She specialises in coaching dental professionals experiencing difficulties, particularly those who have been referred to the General Dental Council.

She has published four books, plus a number of articles and papers over the years. A fifth book will be published in 2023.

Please join us, and don’t forget to share your feedback & ideas on what’s important to you about this topic.

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References

• Clutterbuck, D., 2014. Everyone needs a mentor. 5th ed. London:CIPD.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everyone-Needs-Mentor-David-Clutterbuck/dp/1843983664

· Connor, M., Pokora, J., 2017. Coaching and Mentoring at Work: Developing Effective Practice. 3rd ed. London: McGraw-Hill.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coaching-Mentoring-at-Work-3rd/dp/0335226922

· Dental Mentors UK

https://dentalmentorsuk.com/

· How to develop your career in dentistry, Janine Brooks (2015)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Develop-Your-Career-Dentistry/dp/1118913817

· How to survive dental performance issues Janine Brooks MBE (2018) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119508601

· Practical Applications of Coaching and Mentoring in Dentistry, Janine Brooks, Helen Caton-Hughes (2021) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119648253

· Practitioner Performance Advice (formerly NCAS)

https://resolution.nhs.uk/services/practitioner-performance-advice/

· Professionalism: A Mixed-Methods Research Study, Commissioned by the General Dental Council (GDC), July 2020 https://www.gdc-uk.org/about-us/what-we-do/research/our-research-library/detail/report/professionalism-a-mixed-methods-research-study

· Saw, M., Brooks, J. Mentoring, performance and the GDC. BDJ In Pract 34, 22–24, (2021).

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41404-021-0773-9

• Viney, R., Paice, E., 2010-2012. Reaching out: A Report on London Deanery’s Coaching and Mentoring Service [online]. Available at: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/38749465/reaching-out-mentoring-london-deanerymentoring.londondenaery.co.uk