What are the role and responsibilities of a mentor?
The objective of mentoring is the personal and professional growth and development of the student. Within this, the mentor has a role to facilitate the student’s learning through organising and co-ordinating the learning experience with the student in the placement. It involves welcoming the student, helping to socialise them into the environment and acting as a role model or coach. The mentor has to supervise the student, assist them in developing their clinical competence, assess their progress, provide constructive feedback and make decisions about whether the students have achieved their expected learning outcomes.
