Take control over your career – confidential coaching
BSW Training Hub are offering an exciting opportunity for GPs at any stage of their career to receive free one-to-one mentoring sessions. Contact jo.sinclair1@nhs.net for information on how to access these.
All healthcare professionals within Primary Care can also receive free one-to-one coaching sessions from an experienced accredited coach. These coaches are GPs or allied health professionals who all work within Primary Care and offer sessions to nurses, paramedics, physios, practice managers, administrators and many more.
The overarching aim is to retain the incredible staff working within our primary care settings. Mentoring and coaching can be invaluable for busy professionals. Email jo.sinclair1@nhs.net for more information
What might you discuss?
- thinking through career decisions, options and choices
- talking about current career dilemmas
- exploring future career pathways
- making strategic plans for the future
- preparing for interviews and opportunities
- discussing a potential change in career focus
- developing more meaning or purpose in current roles.
Coaching offers
from South West Leadership Academy
Coaching Register – The South West Leadership Academy Coaching Register is available for colleagues who would like to have a number of coaching sessions with an experienced coach. Coaching is an opportunity for you to have a series of purposeful conversations that can help unlock your potential, discuss areas that would you like to address in a solution-focused and collaborative way.
Coaching Skills – Coaching skills will help you, as a leader, identify and understand some of the principles and processes of successful coaching, and recognise how these can support your team and organisation. It is one of the 22 leadership learning modules that is available on the Leadership Learning Zone that is free for NHS staff to access.
South West Leadership Academy also have a number of workshops to help with Supporting You Through Winter that you may find useful.
Other coaching offers
Feedback from those who have benefitted from the career coaching so far:
Helped me to start being more focused in what I do and don’t want to do going forward.”
Really helpful session and a really enjoyable experience – relaxed interaction and a good plan to follow-up before next time. Thank you.”
The best coach I’ve ever had, his help and guidance has got me through a tremendously difficult period in my life.”
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