Lecturer Details: Mentoring course

Lecturer nameJulia Pokora BSc MSc Grad Dip
Lecturer profileJulia Pokora is a founder member of Coaching and Mentoring Consultants, one of the innovators in Coaching and Mentoring training in the NHS. She has designed and delivered training and development in a wide range of NHS organisations across the UK, including Royal Colleges, Trusts and Dental Deaneries. Participants have included consultants, GP and GDPs, medical students, managers and health professionals. Julia has been a tutor on the Sheffield Dental Mentoring Programme since its inception in 2005. She holds a BSc Psychology, an MSc in Occupational Psychology and a Graduate Diploma in Counselling. She is co-author of the best selling text, Coaching and Mentoring at Work (Open University Press 2012) now in its second edition.
Lecturer nameJune Smailes MBChB DCH DRCOG
Lecturer profileAfter graduating from Sheffield University Medical School, June worked a GP in Sheffield, combining this with working as a Breast Physician in an NHS Breast Clinic. She now enjoys a varied career which includes GP Appraisal and she is Chair of a cancer charity, Cavendish Cancer Care.

She strongly believes that coaching and mentoring should be available for healthcare professionals and recently helped to begin to develop coaching services for GPs in the Yorkshire and Humber region.

Since attending the Mentoring Programme in 2007 she has regularly facilitated on programmes for doctors, dentists and health professionals, and is an Associate of Coaching and Mentoring Consultants.