We recommend that you supervise mentors using any existing type or model of supervision that you use in your typical working practice. If you don’t do much or any supervision as part of your typical work, that’s okay! The research team can offer additional support and training as needed. We think that supervision will typically focus on two particular aspects:

• Progress – how the young person is progressing through the HOPEFUL package and how the mentor feels that the mentoring relationship is working
• Wellbeing – how the mentor is experiencing their role and any impacts of their role on their wellbeing and vice versa

An example template plan for mentor supervision sessions can be found using the button above.

As a general guide, we suggest offering a mentor supervision in the form of up to about an hour approximately every fortnight. However, this is just a guide. You might decide, in collaboration with your mentor, to meet more or less regularly, for more or less time. Mentor supervision can be offered to individual mentors or to more than one mentor in a group. The latter may need to take place in slightly longer meetings – and will depend on there being multiple mentors supporting young people with HOPEFUL at the same time.

Please keep a record of the number of supervision sessions you offer and the number taken up by any mentors you supervise. Please note whether the supervision sessions are individual or group.