Core Skills in Health Coaching

Providing practitioners with the knowledge, skills and techniques needed to integrate health coaching into their roles

Our Core Skills in Health Coaching programme

Our 2 day Core Skills in Health Coaching programmes are designed to support practitioners from all health, care, community and voluntary sectors to learn how to use health coaching effectively in their current roles.

What do participants learn?

The focus of the programmes is on supporting practitioners to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to integrate health coaching into their current roles to support personalised care.

Our programmes provide practitioners with the opportunity to develop a broad understanding of the principles of health coaching and behaviour change, while providing a practical set of tools that they can apply immediately in their work.

What does the programme experience include?

The programme is generally structured as 2 separate day-long workshops, delivered a week or two apart to allow participants to practice their developing skills. Prior to the workshop participants are onboarded with a reflective briefing pack.

This is a highly interactive programme with an emphasis on skill practice and development. The programme will be delivered using a highly participative and experiential learning process supported by expert input. We will create many opportunities to practice skills and challenge participants to identify how they can apply their learning to their own work place settings. Further, the programme will provide an opportunity for participants to discuss applications of health coaching in their system, develop relationships and network together with the intention of creating a community of practice.

We emphasise skills for embedding health coaching through on-going practice, reflection and planning as reflexive practitioners. We follow-up these programmes with webinars and online learning sessions or a series of e-learning based health coaching shots that comprise brief inputs and memory aids to support participants in the application of their learning after the workshop.

How is the programme accredited?

This programme:

Is accredited by the Personalised Care Institute
Meets the standards for training health, social care and voluntary sector staff to use health
coaching skills as recommended by NHS England and NHS Improvement Health Coaching: Implementation and Quality Summary Guide
Can be officially approved for CPD by professional bodies
Is recognised as industry best practice through Better Conversation

PCI

Specialism Focused Programmes

Programme Content

Structuring conversations using a coaching approach
Understanding the psychological basis of coaching and its application in health and care settings
Active listening, effective questioning and supportive challenge skills
Building trust and rapport and the implications for behaviour change
Shared agenda setting, collaborative goal setting and effective follow up planning
The core concepts and principles of personalised care, shared decision making, patient activation, health behaviour change, self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation and assets-based approaches
A wide range of health coaching tools, techniques, skills and mindsets
Providing information and supporting adherence using a coaching style
Understanding when health coaching is an effective approach and its limitations
Tailoring interventions to lower levels of health literacy and different levels of activation
Skills practice in health coaching models, conversation frames and techniques with constructive feedback from expert practitioners
Action-planning to integrate health coaching into your current role in a way that’s consistent with the values and expectations of your setting

Specific content will be discussed with commissioners in advance and will be tailored to meet the needs of your specific service, organisation or system.

Our application of Health Coaching - experience

Mapping The PCI Curriculum

Our 2 day programme maps to the PCI Curriculum in the following ways:

Core communication and relationship building skills

The course addresses all the skills listed as core communication skills and skills in building trusting relationships.

Models and approaches; the core objective of the programme is to address:

Health Coaching (level 1 and 2 learning outcomes listed in PCI curriculum)

The programme also incorporates:

Motivational interviewing (level 1 and 2 learning outcomes listed in PCI curriculum)
Supporting behaviour change (level 1 learning outcomes listed in PCI curriculum)
Patient activation – primarily about tailoring conversations
Health literacy - primarily about tailoring conversations

Comprehensive Model for Personalised Care:

This course is primarily related to the component of “Supported self-management” and links well to the “Social prescribing and community-based support” while also provides methodologies and conversation frames to support “Shared decision making” and “Personalised Care and Support Planning”