EndoExchange Mentoring Programme
The Society for Endocrinology is excited to introduce EndoExchange, an informal mentoring scheme designed to help members navigate career challenges and share expertise. Whether you’re seeking advice on navigating research or clinical pathways, career progression, or work-life balance, EndoExchange offers a simple, flexible way to learn from experienced peers.
We are currently open to mentor applications, mentee applications will follow shortly.
How It Works
- Choose Your Mentor: Browse our list of volunteer mentors and select up to three who match your needs. We will then match you as best as we can with a mentor that fits your needs and availability
- Define Your Challenge: Tell us what you’d like to discuss - anything from grant applications to building networks.
- Connect and Chat: We’ll introduce you to your mentor for an initial 30–60 minute conversation. If helpful, you can arrange up to two more meetings.
- Please note, these are stand alone guidance meetings designed to discuss a specific problem or challenge
Why Join?
- Gain practical insights from experienced members.
- Build connections across the endocrinology community.
- Flexible, informal, and focused on your needs.
Why become a mentor?
- Share what you’ve learned
Turn your experience into practical guidance, helping others navigate career decisions, challenges, and next steps.
- Build meaningful professional connections
Connect with colleagues across career stages and pathways, strengthening your network and the wider endocrinology community.
- Grow your mentoring and leadership skills
Gain experience in focused, time-limited mentoring that sharpens your communication, coaching, and reflective practice.
Who should become a mentor?
You don’t need decades of experience or a senior title to be a great mentor. EndoExchange is about sharing real-world experience, practical insight, and perspective. If you’re a step ahead and willing to have an open, supportive conversation, you have something valuable to offer.
- Early- and mid-career professionals
Your recent experience of training choices, transitions, and progression is especially relevant and relatable.
- Clinicians, researchers, nurses, and allied professionals
Different roles and pathways enrich the scheme—there’s no single model of success.
- Those who’ve navigated challenges or change
Insights from career breaks, work–life balance, setbacks, or changing direction can be incredibly helpful.
- People who enjoy supporting others
You don’t need all the answers, just a willingness to listen, reflect, and share honestly.
- Anyone a step ahead
If you’ve been where someone else is now, your perspective matters.
Get Involved
- Become a Mentor: Share your experience and help shape the next generation.
- Find a Mentor: Apply online and start your EndoExchange journey.
Our mentor sign up is now live for sign ups. Mentee sign ups will be available shortly.
Sign up to become a mentor
EndoExchange Mentoring Guidelines
EndoExchange is an informal, time-limited mentoring scheme designed to support Society for Endocrinology members with career-related challenges. These guidelines reflect best practice principles for mentoring relationships: clarity, mutual respect, confidentiality, and goal-setting.
General Guidance
- Professional & Respectful: Be punctual, engaged, and maintain confidentiality.
- Purposeful: Focus on career development, not therapy or project supervision.
- Boundaries: Avoid conflicts of interest and respect scheme limits (max 3 meetings).
- Inclusivity: Treat all participants with respect and avoid discrimination.
- Feedback: Both parties will be asked for feedback to improve the scheme and mentees will be encouraged to join up as a mentor in the future.
Mentors – Your Role
- Commitment: Be engaged and responsive during the agreed period.
- Transparency: Agree on the agenda before the first meeting.
- Closing the Meeting: Agree whether this is the final meeting or if another is planned
Mentees – Your Role
- Come Prepared: Define a clear agenda for your first meeting. Focus on one career-related topic (e.g. avoid asking for advice on specifics of your PhD or research project).
- Set a Realistic Goal: Use SMART principles (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound).
- Drive the Conversation: You lead the agenda and any agreed follow up. Provide reasonable notice for the meeting(s) and respect time limits.
