Code of Conduct for a Mentor

Roles
The role of the mentor is to assist the mentee through a process of self-reflection, questions and support, signposting challenges and offering feedback.

The role of the mentee is to work with the mentor to set goals and carry out a plan to meet those goals, using the mentor as a sounding board for reflection and decision making and sharing your experience as helpful.

Responsibilities
Both the mentor and mentee should carry out their roles with professionalism, consideration and support.

Personal information
For safeguarding purposes, if you are working with a current Sixth Form pupil, please do not offer or agree to share your private or work contact details and do not request that pupil’s share contact details or social media accounts with you.

Communication
For safeguarding, communication with Sixth Form pupils must only take place in writing via the Holles Connect messaging function. 

As part of the measures we have taken to protect and ensure the safety and wellbeing of pupils, we have asked parents to give their written permission for them to take part in virtual mentoring by Holles Connect members and assured them that communication will only take place via the Holles Connect platform.

These restrictions should stay in place until the pupil has graduated from the school after A levels. Once they have become a former student of LEH, you will be able to communicate directly should you wish to continue the mentor/mentee partnership.

If you are assisting an alumna, you are obviously free to communicate as you prefer.

Monitoring
The LEH Careers Team reserve the right to read messages to Sixth Form pupils sent through the Holles Connect system and will routinely monitor conversations at random for safeguarding purposes. 

If you have concerns at any time, please let us know by emailing: alumnae@lehs.org.uk.

Effective Mentoring
Mentors need to be conscious of their own levels of mentoring competence and experience and to never overstate them. Instead, they should help the mentee to practice self-reflection and ask questions about their own development, rather than advising the mentee specifically. Remember that the mentee has the ability and the potential, the mentor's job is to help them realise it.

Feedback
If you take part in an Elevate mentoring match, we will send you a brief feedback form to help us monitor if the programme is working effectively and identify improvements which could be made.

Please sign the Code of Conduct bellow.