Mentoring for LEDs (Clinical Fellows)

The Locally Employed Doctor (LED) role, also known as Clinical Fellows, has rapidly expanded over the last 5 years. Doctors will come to this role for a variety of reasons, for example: to gain skills and experience in a different specialty, as an opportunity to develop their CV for specialty training, to maintain other interests and perhaps develop a portfolio career. For this reason, it is important that LEDs have access to the opportunity that the Peer Mentoring Programme can offer – for support, advice and mentoring through your Clinical Fellow year. This can help with navigating the appraisal process, career advice and development opportunities.

There is also an opportunity to become a mentor to other doctors; this can develop your leadership, communication and mentoring skills. There is training for the role and you will be supported as a mentor.

LED doctors wishing to be matched with a mentor or be supported in a mentoring role can fill out the application form by clicking on the icon at the bottom of this page.

We'd love to hear from you if you have any questions about the programme or suggestions how we could make it better for LED doctors - our email address is available at the bottom of the page or you can join our Lothian Peer Mentoring Programme Teams channel for current updates.