Mentor meeting 3

Chartership Meeting

Friday 20th April 2007

Sue Caldicott
Mentor

Areas of Discussion

CV – Agreed a few areas to amend
1) There is a gap in dates between February 2002 and October 2003 that need explaining. Period when I returned to my role as Senior Library Assistant on the return of my manager after maternity leave.
2) Too much explanation about why I was acting up rather than focus on what I got out of it.
3) Current post – explanation should concentrate more on my role in Trust merger rather than reasons behind it.
4) Instead of just having dates, include job role and place of work which will replace need to explain abaout trusts within explanatory body of CV.

Learning Log – Keeping a note of all the courses with dates and a brief column with outcome could provide evidence of continued Professional development without using too much of word count.

2010 is an important part of my current post both in service and professional development. Important to focus on the impact it will have on me.

Accreditation Visit – Discussion about my recent accreditation visit as part of the assessing panal. My preference for writing up about the visit in a report was agreed to be a good idea for me. Need to concentrate on the visit and explain what I got out of the day personally and how I could use the visit and what I learned to develop my own service. The comparison of my service and the one visited was a critique of my service which I had not recognised.

Evaluative statement – I think I would like to begin this now whilst I am gathering evidence as I would find it easier to cross reference as I went along. This suits my own style of learning as I know from past experiences that I always put too much into a document and find it easier to filter down than try to increase content later. I also feel that by doing the evaluative statement as I go along I can explain certain aspects of the evidence that I am collecting as it is fresh in my own mind.

3C’s – mentor asked if I had considered the 3C’s course about to start as it would be a good for my personal development and at the same time I would be able to meet some of the learning developments listed on my PPDP – will contact course organiser and apply.

As usual I left this meeting feeling very positive and focused on my next plan of action.
I find these meetings really important if only to reaffirm my own ideas and path I am taking.
Suggestions are always constructive and the support I get is valuable to my own learning process.