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• Be aware of the impact of your own behaviour on the people around you, and particularly junior doctors and trainees.
• Be mindful that your behaviour serves as a role model to junior doctors and set an example to other colleagues in your team by behaving professionally and respectfully towards all team members.
• Communicate respectfully with colleagues and refrain from dismissive or intimidating behaviour and inappropriate, offensive or pejorative language, including swearing.
• Be accessible and approachable to colleagues.
• Support colleagues who have problems with performance, conduct or health.
• Challenge counterproductive behaviour in colleagues constructively, objectively and proportionately.
• Encourage and be open to feedback from colleagues, including junior colleagues, and be willing to reflect on feedback about your own performance and behaviour and acknowledge any mistakes.
• Willingly and openly participate in regular appraisal of yourself, trainee surgeons and other staff.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships and respectful communication with non-clinical management. Ensure that you understand and fulfill your responsibilities as an employee in addition to your duties as a professional.
• Take responsibility to act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues. You should also take responsibility to seek a mentor to improve your own skills at any point in your career and particularly when taking on a new role.

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