Previously procured by NHS England and delivered nationally, this service is based on the HSJ award winning and highly effective coaching service Looking After You, which can now be commissioned locally.
Based on a proactive health coaching model that combines coaching approaches with informational support, the service offers tailored coaching support personalised to individuals. It supports participants to develop skills for self-management and provides an early intervention before problems become entrenched.
Delivered by experienced accredited coaches, all of whom NHS and clinical backgrounds, with over 10 years experience working in the health and care sector.
This coaching focuses on you and your wellbeing, and you can talk about things like:
The coaching is designed to support you to develop practical strategies to cope with your situation and stay well.
If you lead, manage, or organise a team or group you can access this offer to talk about things like:
– How your team is working together
– Developing ways to improve team relationships
– Developing a more compassionate and collaborative culture
The coaching is orientated towards supporting you to develop practical strategies and make small improvements that enable healthy team working.
This is an opportunity to focus on you and your career. You can use this coaching to talk about things like:
– Planning your career progression
– Your options and making choices
– Career decisions
The coaching is designed to support you to take practical steps, take more control over your career direction and proactively advance it.
CoachingForYou is based on the Looking After You Service which was, as far as we know, the largest and best evaluated coaching service ever undertaken in the UK. Commissioned by NHS England in March 2020, originally to support NHS primary care staff through the challenges of the Covid pandemic, it ran until March 2024. The service delivered 38,000 coaching sessions to over 13,000 NHS staff. Services included health and wellbeing coaching, career coaching and coaching for team managers and leaders. It was expanded to include virtual team away days and peer support sessions. It included a service for all NHS staff from an ethnically diverse background to access health and wellbeing coaching, delivered by ethnically diverse coaches. The service was available to staff at every level and available at flexible days and times (out of hours) to meet the needs of the NHS workforce.
TPC Health were commissioned to support the design and development of the Looking After You services. We were subsequently commissioned as Lead Provider working in partnership with NHS England to manage the services. We had a large team of coaches working across all the services; this experience gave us unrivalled insight into the challenges that NHS staff face and a deep understanding of the context that NHS staff are working in. As well as our extensive experience delivering the Looking After You coaching services, we have provided many other coaching programmes for organisations within the health and care sector, across a broad range of areas – leadership coaching, executive coaching, team coaching, health and wellbeing coaching career coaching, and coaching supervision. Clients include NHS Trusts, PCNs, ICBs Leadership Academies as well as charities, VCSEs and NGOs.
The service was independently evaluated by the Institute of Employment Studies. Across the four services, each was shown to yield lasting statistically significant improvements for staff as follows:
Overall, 99.8% of users felt listened to and supported; and 99% reported feeling able to move forward after their sessions. You can view case studies from the evaluation here and the Evaluation Report here
Our coaches are all highly experienced and accredited, they have a minimum of 10 years coaching experience and and have all worked in the NHS and health care system. Many of our team have diverse backgrounds, aiming to match the workforce they serve. Our team come from a range of clinical and care backgrounds including psychologists, doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, community-health practitioners, social prescribers, speech-therapists, health and wellbeing coaches, patient-experience officers and consultants.
We can be very flexible around how this programme is commissioned – the service can be provided for ICBs, organisations, teams, individuals – please contact us to discuss your needs.
We will agree with you the structure and process for the coaching programme. We can offer flexibility around times/days for sessions (including out of hours) and whilst we have a recommended number of session and session length, are happy to discuss other options. We provide an easy to access online booking platform, making arranging sessions simple and convenient for coaches.
Our leadership programmes are designed and delivered by experts in the health and care sector, who have industry recognised qualifications combined with extensive clinical experience.
Our team include psychologists, doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, social workers and psychotherapists, to name but a few. This puts us in a unique position to offer innovative and inspiring programmes to health organisations that want to transform their workforce.
“My coach is an incredible listener, helps me get right to the point of what I’m struggling with at a certain time and what will help move forward. After every session I have left with an objective to work on and has allowed me to feel more positive about my job and the potential of a sustainable career. I’m really really grateful for this.”
“My coach is excellent at listening. I enjoy her style of allowing me to speak freely then delving deeper into certain aspects of what I have said/asking subsequent questions for me to reflect on/answer. I can also see that she is knowledgeable about the process of finding work which is of great help to me in my current phase.”
“I really enjoyed meeting my coach over the last 7 months. I felt listened to and supported. We came up with some great ideas for my teams and how to adapt to their needs. I’ve learnt to remember to look after myself and have a good work life balance. I do believe I have achieved this. I have recommended this service to friends and colleagues. Many thanks.”
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