Career Coaching with Confidence for Educators and Trainers (FD17MAR27a)

This interactive workshop is designed to build confidence and practical skills in delivering effective career conversations within a healthcare context. Over 3.5 hours, participants will explore both the theory and application of career coaching through a mix of short facilitator-led inputs, group discussion and reflective exercises.

The session focuses on real-world challenges such as managing expectations, setting boundaries and supporting individuals who may be uncertain about their career direction or considering alternative pathways. A key feature of the workshop is the introduction of the KIPPER model, providing a clear and structured approach to guiding career conversations, with opportunities to practise using this framework.

Participants will also be introduced to a range of practical tools, including values-based exercises, prioritisation techniques and coaching questions, alongside resources such as the BMA Specialty Explorer and NHS alternative careers information. Wider factors such as burnout, resilience and neurodiversity are also considered to support a holistic approach.

Attendees will receive a Career Conversations Resource Pack to support ongoing practice and will leave feeling more confident in using a coaching approach to help others make informed decisions about their career direction.

Booking courses

Please ensure that you check your availability before booking a place and add the booking to your diary / calendar. Please ensure that you also book the relevant study leave in advance with your employer.

Please refrain from booking multiple instances of the same course or course type to ensure that places are available to your colleagues. If a course is full, please add yourself to the waiting list and you will receive a notification if a place becomes available.

Joining Instructions

This is a virtual course, the joining instructions for the virtual meeting will be added to the documents section (above) before the course. Please ensure that you are able to access this before the course so that you are ready to join on the day.

Booking cancellation

Participants must make every effort to attend courses they have booked. If your availability changes after booking, please cancel your place through Maxcourse as soon as possible. This will release the place for colleagues on the waiting list.

If you need to cancel within 1 week of the course or the course has started and you are not able to attend, please email england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net to give your apologies.

This course is only available to Educational Supervisors, Education Leads, Training Programme Directors and Senior Faculty within Yorkshire and the Humber.

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

This workshop provides attendees with a range of skills, to help them support others to make high quality and informed decisions about their career options and direction.

The workshop will give you access and skills in:

• Challenges within career conversations
• Defining career conversations
• Managing expectations and boundaries within career conversations
• Applying career coaching within career conversations
• KIPPER model for managing career coaching conversations
• Introduction to career conversation tools: • Values Wheel • Priorities Box • Personality Questions • Positive Psychology Questions • BMA Speciality Explorer • NHS Alternative Careers with a Medical Degree • Identity and Enmeshment Questions
• Other useful resources: • Burnout • Resilience • Neurodiversity • Career Conversations Resource Pack

By the end of the workshop attendees will be able to:

• Define a career conversation

• Identify the boundaries within career conversations

• Apply a career coaching approach to career conversations

• Explain the KIPPER model for managing career conversations

• Identify a range of career conversation tools and how these may be useful in career conversations

• Consider other factors that may be influencing career conversations and decisions

• Begin using the Career Conversation Resource Pack in helping others make high quality and informed decisions about their career options and direction