Health & Wellbeing Coaches are required to have ongoing supervision, usually monthly. For the coaching model we use, we find the frequency of supervision can be reduced after the first year or two as expertise develops.

Why is this required?

Health & Wellbeing Coaching is a skilled role. 

Coaches can learn the skills very quickly – in a 2-day course to be introduced to the toolkit skills or a 4-day course to learn how to use the skills in the context of a one-to-one intervention across a number of sessions with an individual. However, it takes time to develop the skills and become confident in using them to:

• Deliver a consistent high-quality service to all patients, regardless of the patients’ initial levels of activation or the health conditions or challenges they are struggling with;
• Become confident enough with the skills, the coaching conversation, and the supported self-management mindset, that they are able to supervise and train others, creating cost-effective and sustainable services within localities and within the health system. In our experience, it takes at least 2-3 years of supervised practice for coaches to reach this level.

Once coaches have reach supervisor/trainer level proficiency, peer group support can replace most, if not all, individual supervision.

Know Your Own Health offers two types of supervision and skills development:

Individual supervision

• Individual Supervision Sessions (50 mins per session)
• Usually booked in sets of 6 or 12 sessions 
• These are with a trainer-level supervisor and are subject to availability

Request Individual Supervision

Group Skills Development Sessions

• Sets of 4 (1.5 hr) group skills development sessions
• Monthly sessions, focused on key topics and the coaching conversation
• Run by trainers

Request a place on a set of group skills development sessions