In addition to the informal support that is an integral part of the SCCO family experience for students and faculty alike, we also offer mentoring in the following ways.
- Pathway: Students signed up to the SCCO Pathway are assigned a mentor on each course they choose to write an assignment for, to support them in making the learning process as fruitful and nourishing as possible.
- Paediatric Osteopathy Diploma: Students following the Paediatric diploma are assigned a mentor to help them with questions, concerns and particularly with guidance in preparing assignments.
- The Institute of Osteopathy (iO). The SCCO recently reviewed mentoring as part of an ongoing project to provide the best education and support for all students. We found the iO mentoring scheme already offered the structure and organisation we would hope to provide, so encourage students to use this resource. The iO’s 40-minute video Introduction to Mentoring is available by clicking here. The video is supported by the Osteopathic Mentoring Toolkit which is available by clicking this link and an online application which connects mentors and mentees. Many SCCO faculty are already signed up with the iO scheme to offer themselves as mentors.
Michael Harris is an experienced faculty member who is available to answer questions and provide advice to osteopaths interested in beginning the Pathway with the Foundation Course. For further information, please contact Michael via our administrator clearly marking your email for forwarding to Michael Harris.
Tutor Training
The SCCO offers training to osteopaths experienced in OCF to help them develop their teaching skills. Applicants are usually selected from the Fellows of the SCCO or equivalent in experience. We offer an osteopathic education course of 6 day units, with assignments to run alongside teaching experience on our Module 2 Introduction to OCF courses. Facilitating students learning in a hands on palpatory environment requires special skills which we help future tutors develop along with their lecturing and workshop skills.
For further information, please contact admin@scco.ac.
Faculty development
Faculty development weekends are run annually to enable our the entirety of our faculty to join together to share information, research, or ideas about how we teach new courses.
For detailed information contact the office on 01453 767607 or email us.
Faculty Peer Support
The SCCO Faculty Mentoring Group is a body of volunteers who provide SCCO Faculty with confidential teaching and mentoring support. It is a route whereby Faculty, both new to teaching or with many years’ experience , can raise questions or suggestions, seek advice or discuss issues.
Current group members are:
- Rowan Douglas-Mort
- Michael Harris
Should you wish to speak with a member of the group, please email ceo@scco.ac stating only who you would like to speak with and how you wish to be contacted – email, phone etc.. Your request will be passed to the relevant group member who will make contact as requested.
Please note the Faculty Mentoring Group are unable to provide any form of counselling or deal with grievances or complaints. These should be raised in line with the SCCO grievance policy.
