Does Personalised Care matter to you?

Are you wanting to enable your patients to feel empowered to better manage their own health, feel equipped to ask the questions that are important to them and participate equally in decisions about their healthcare?

Would you like to have conversations with patients where you don’t feel obliged to ‘fix’?

Would you enjoy enabling other health care professionals to achieve the same?

Do you have scope within your current role to deliver education/training?

Health coaching can:

• unlock a person’s potential to enhance their own wellbeing
• help people take ownership of their health
• help a person to learn rather than teaching them
• develop skills and build confidence

Health coaching is grounded in established adult learning, motivational and psychological approaches. It helps a person access the information and resources they need, when they need them.

It involves supporting people to plan and reach their own goals rather than what professionals want them to achieve. It is holistic and focuses on what matters most to the individual.

Outcomes of Health Coaching

• Improved adherence to treatment regimens
• Patients more likely to monitor their own condition and obtain recommended care when needed
• Better clinical outcomes and improved experience for the patient
• Reduced number of emergency room visits
• Reduced number of visits to GP and secondary care
• Reduction in staff burnout

Training

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for any staff working within hospital/ palliative care setting/cancer support services in Wessex who have regular contact with patients, to access accredited* Health Coaching Skills training which will equip you with conversational skills in your daily practice to support person-centred care and self-management for patients. The training will give you the opportunity to develop a broad understanding of the principles of health coaching and behaviour change, while providing a practical set of tools that you can apply immediately within your work.

The programme is delivered as two separate day-long workshops, spaced one to two weeks apart to allow for practicing newly acquired skills. It is highly interactive with an emphasis on skill practice and development. It will also offer opportunity for participants to discuss applications of health coaching within their everyday work.

There will be an ongoing programme of dates offered starting with those listed below. You can attend any course but for ease of access we are aiming to deliver them across Wessex and therefore more local to you.

Training Schedule and booking

Please complete the application form and describe briefly how the health coaching skills training will support you in your current or future role.

If you have any questions contact wessexcanceralliance@wca.uhs.nhs.uk

All training days will run 9:00am – 5.00pm.

*Training is accredited by the Personalised Care Institute  personalisedcareinstitute.org.uk

This programme is being delivered by Wessex Cancer Alliance, working in collaboration with  TPC Health, supported by grant funding from Hampshire & IOW Integrated Care Board.