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Mentoring Clinical Occupational Therapists Offering Vocational Rehabilitation in Public Healthcare. Critical Reflections on Four Years’ Experience. Hester van Biljon

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Page 1: Mentoring Clinical Occupational Therapists Offering Vocational Rehabilitation … · 2018-08-20 · occupational therapy vocational rehabilitation practice. To establish mentoring

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Mentoring Clinical Occupational Therapists Offering Vocational

Rehabilitation in Public Healthcare. Critical Reflections on Four Years’

Experience.

Hester van Biljon

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Ingredient list:

• Framing mentoring

• Background

• What not to do

• What worked

• Critical reflection

• Summary and suggestions on positioning mentoring to impact occupational therapy

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“Overused and much abused” – Janis Ian

Mentoring

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Definition of Mentoring

Mentoring is a professional relationship in which an experienced person (the mentor) spends time with a

less experienced colleague (the mentoree) in developing skills and knowledge that will enhance the less-experienced person’s professional and personal

growth.

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Transforming the Vocational Rehabilitation Services of Occupational Therapists in Gauteng

Public Healthcare through Action Learning Action Research.

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The first ‘mistake’: Workshops

Plan

Identified problems

ActHeld practical

onsite workshops

Reflect

Practices were not improving.

We need a new plan.

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Another ‘mistake’: User manuals

Plan

User Manuals

Act

Developed User Manuals

Reflect

Practice was not improving

We need a new plan

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Mentoring

“ I have come to realise that you cannot fix clinical occupational therapy practice by remote control. I have to get involved at the coalface. It is only by working alongside clinicians within their everyday practice realities that there is going to be transformation.”

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What not to do …

• Don’t kick down doors

• Don’t formalise the mentoring program

• Don’t sweat the small stuff

• Don’t fraternise with the management

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What worked …

• Mutual consent

• Allow clinicians to set the place, format, content and time frame for mentoring

• See one, do one, teach one

• Be one of them

• Avoid power relations and catch what they drop

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Critical Reflection

• Mentoring in real time clinical practice is hard

• The personalities of the mentor/mentee affected the quality and the speed of the transformation

• There is value in workshops and user documents

• Mentoring is time consuming and expensive

• The Action Learning Action Research approach was central to the success of the mentoring that took place

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“End? No the journey does not end here.” - Gandalf

Mentoring offered with an ALAR approach can change occupational therapy vocational rehabilitation practice.

To establish mentoring as a change agent within occupational therapy we need to

• develop a mentoring culture

• foster the political will

• find, train, regulate and remunerate mentors

• generate and publish evidence