Coaching and mentoring

Empowering NHS communications professionals to grow their confidence, accelerate their careers, and navigate change effectively.
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HealthCommsPlus coaching and mentoring empowers NHS communications professionals to grow their confidence, accelerate their careers, and navigate change effectively. Our tailored programmes offer practical support delivered by experienced senior practitioners.   

Coaching vs mentoring: explained

Coaching is a structured, forward-focused partnership designed to help you think clearly, grow your self-awareness and build confidence in your own decision-making. Coaches don’t give answers, they help you access your own. This makes coaching particularly powerful when you want to develop leadership capability, navigate complexity, shift unhelpful patterns or make meaningful change in a demanding role. 

Mentoring draws on someone’s lived experience. A mentor offers guidance, advice and practical insights based on having “been there”. It’s valuable when you need a safe space to explore career pathways, learn a new skill or seek a different perspective from an experienced communications leader.

All our work is delivered by our senior practitioners, Carrie-Ann Wade and Jenny Sumner, who understand the pressures of NHS communications, and bring a grounded, compassionate approach.

Most professionals benefit from both styles of work, mentoring for direction; coaching for transformation. We offer a range of services: 

    • 121 mentoring services to senior leader level communications professionals working for NHS Confederation member organisations, with 6 x 1 hour mentoring sessions to be taken within 6 months, email support from mentor throughout, and a follow-up session 3 months from completion. 
    • A 12 week, 6 session, structured group mentoring programme aimed at mid-level communications professionals working for NHS Confederation member organisations. Minimum sign up to run viable programme is 4 participants, (maximum 8). A certificate of completion is included, and participants can claim CPD points. 
    • Supporting NHS Confederation member organisations through change via tailored mentoring support for communications teams. 3 x 121 sessions per team member focusing on confidence, career development and recruitment process readiness.  
    • Six-month partnerships tailored to each individual’s goals and context. Programmes draw on powerful coaching tools and a grounded, compassionate approach. 

  • Taking place once or twice per month, our day-rate coaching clinics allow employees to book ahead for regular, confidential support, either remotely or in-person. 

If you would like to discuss this further, please email us or contact Sarah Miller.

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