Coaching Professional Level 5 Funded Programme

The Coaching Professional Level 5 programme is a 13-month course designed to develop advanced coaching skills, enabling participants to effectively empower and engage individuals and teams across their organisation. By the end of the programme, participants will have gained the following outcomes and benefits:

• Advanced Coaching Skills: Gain a deep understanding of coaching principles and practices, including the ability to conduct comprehensive coaching needs analyses and develop tailored coaching strategies that align with organisational goals.
• Strategic Relationship Management: Learn to build and manage effective coaching relationships, addressing ethical considerations and setting clear boundaries. You will be able to foster a supportive environment that enhances individual and team performance.
• Enhanced Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence: Develop a high level of self-awareness and emotional intelligence. This includes understanding your own values and communication styles, which are crucial for effective coaching and facilitating personal and professional growth in others.
• Specialised Coaching Techniques: Master a variety of coaching tools and techniques, including psychometrics, to support and challenge coachees. This will enable you to facilitate deeper insights and learning, improving team dynamics and accountability.
• Intervention Design and Implementation: Acquire the skills to design and implement effective coaching interventions that address specific objectives and constraints. You will be able to tailor your approach to meet the unique needs of each coachee, ensuring meaningful and measurable outcomes.
• Outcome and Action Orientation: Learn to support coachees in setting and achieving clear, actionable goals. This involves helping them navigate the cultural and systemic contexts of their work environments, and facilitating constructive challenges to these systems when necessary.
• Evaluation and Quality Assurance: Develop the ability to evaluate the effectiveness of coaching interactions for quality assurance purposes. You will learn to measure the return on investment of coaching, ensuring continuous improvement and professional development.
• Holistic Approach to Coaching: Gain insights into organisational culture and values, and learn to integrate coaching with broader organisational objectives. You will explore various coaching models and techniques, including positive psychology, Gestalt, and NLP, to deliver comprehensive coaching solutions.

Coaching is a way of treating people, a way of thinking and a way of being, which is seen as vital to supporting individuals and organisations in increasingly volatile and ever-changing environments. The underlying and ever present purpose of coaching is building the self-belief of others, regardless of the context, to be curious and self-aware, better equipping them to collaborate, innovate, deal with the increasing pace of change and get the best from increasingly diverse environments. Effective coaching is future focussed, releases potential, and enables transition, transformation and change for business improvement.

During this programme learners will attend a full day online workshop every two months and have a one-to-one session with their Coaching Mentor every month.

After each session the learners will need to complete a reflective account looking at what they have taken from the workshop, and how this new knowledge has or could be used within their job role. This will be done using work-based examples and supporting product evidence, which will help build their portfolio and show the candidates’ understanding of the criteria covered in the workshop.

During the 13-month delivery all learners will have monthly mentor calls, this is to monitor their progress completing reflective journals; monitoring how the course has impacted on their behaviour and day to day practise; ensuring all learners are able to evidence the learning ahead of their EPA (End point Assessment).

The broad purpose of the occupation is to work with a wide range of individuals and teams across organisations, to empower and engage with them to enhance their professional performance. Coaching is a way of leading in a non-directive manner, helping people to learn through deep listening and reflective, open questions rather than instructing, giving advice or making suggestions.

The entry requirement for this apprenticeship will be Maths and English GCSEs (or equivalent) at Grade C or higher. Functional skills tests may be required to be taken in Maths and/or English, as part of the programme, if no qualification or evidence available.

Professional recognition

This standard aligns with the following professional recognition:

• European Mentoring and Coaching Council for Accredited Coaching Practitioner
• The Association for Coaching for Accredited Coach
• The International Coach Federation for Associate Certified Coach