The standards of conduct, performance and ethics our mentors must keep to:
- We must act in the best interests of service users
- We must maintain high standards of assessment and practice
- We must respect the confidentiality of service users
- We must keep high standards of personal conduct
- We must provide (to us and relevant regulators and/or professional
bodies) any important information about our conduct and competence - We must keep our knowledge and skills up to date
- We must act within the limits of our knowledge, skills and experience
and, if necessary, refer the matter to another practitioner - We must communicate properly and effectively with service users and
other practitioners - We must effectively supervise tasks that we have asked other people to carry out
- We must get informed consent to take action (except in an emergency)
- We must keep accurate records
- We must deal fairly and safely with the risks of danger
- We must limit our work or stop mentoring if our performance or
judgement is affected by our health - We must behave with honesty and integrity and make sure that
our behaviour does not damage the public’s confidence in us or
our charity - We must make sure that any communications we make are accurate