The Trust now have an internal pool of coaches who are waiting for you! Coaches can help you in a range of ways including: transitioning into a new role; developing performance and skills in your current role; overcoming work related challenges and enhancing effective working relationships to name but a few.             
 
Silas Nichols, Chief Executive is supportive of coaching and through embedding a coaching culture across the Trust it provides a tangible way of ensuring that our SCOPE values are translated into the day to day relationships between staff at all levels. Here are a few words from Silas about his experience of coaching:
"Through personal experience, I would thoroughly recommend coaching as a development tool.  It has helped me to improve impact throughout my career by providing me with a structured way to think about things differently and to become better in my working practices.  As a senior leader it has enabled me to measurably improve my productivity, performance and relationships.  I have become a more effective leader, creating a proactive and flexible environment supported by an excellent senior executive team - working together, with you, to achieve great things. 

Utilising a coaching style in the conversations we have with each other and the way in which we work is one way we can support each other to be the best we can be both on an individual and organisation level.  It helps create an environment where we can all contribute towards the ongoing growth and development of the Trust as a great place to work." 

For further information about our coaches, and how to access coaching please visit:http://www.sonhset.com/coaching.html or email the OD Team  

Looking to enhance your coaching skills to support others?
 
The CMI Level 5 Award in Coaching and Mentoring will introduce you to the principles, skills and impact of management coaching and mentoring within the organisation. Below are further details about the expectations of the course and your commitment to being an effective coach within the workplace.

• Attendance at a 2 day course (2nd & 9th May)
• Attendance at a half day action learning set followed by a coaching group discussion (13th June)
• Completion of 3000 word assignment
• Completion & recorded – 12-20 hours coaching practice

Commitments:

• You and your line manager will be expected to sign a contract with the Trust which demonstrates your ongoing commitment to provide coaching and mentoring support to staff within the organisation = a  minimum of two coaching relationships per year to a minimum of 3 sessions each
• Failure to attend any aspect of the training or complete the full assignment will result in the Trust re-charging your departmental budget for the full cost of the course = approx. £350 p.p.
• Following completion of the course, the Trust is committed to supporting you as a coach and will put in place a coaching network to provide mutual coaching support and supervision
  

 
To apply, please complete the form and both you and your line manager sign the expression of interest/learning contract – see attached - and return your completed form to soh-tr.leadership@nhs.net by 29th March 2019
(There is a lot of interest in this programme so if you are unsuccessful in your application for this cohort, it is expected that future courses will be available)

We are delighted to confirm a new range of development opportunities from the NHS North West Leadership Academy (NHS NWLA) running throughout 2018.  Health and Wellbeing is fast becoming a key focus across the public sector system for both individuals and organisations, as they find themselves in increasingly complex environments. Recognising this, the NHS NWLA will be releasing ongoing Health and Wellbeing opportunities to support our members, look out for new information around this in our monthly Development Opportunities and through regular updates on our website.
 
We are launching this with two fantastic offers supporting senior leadership across the North West, taking place in early 2018. Make it part of your New Year resolution to look after your health and wellbeing, build that well of resilience and shape your self-compassion. Please find further details and booking information below:

What role do myth, fable and story have in constructing our identity? Narrative coach Sue MacMillan demonstrates how we can use stories to help clients gain new insight and understanding and swap unhelpful or harmful scripts for those that offer hope, healing and possibility.
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Coaching and Mentoring Champions Training
Tuesday 6th December 2016
Barton Grange Hotel, Preston 
 
We are delighted to confirm the details for our upcoming Coaching and Mentoring Champions Training day. As a coaching and mentoring champion you will become part of a network who are involved in influencing the North West’s future approach to coaching and mentoring, whilst supporting this agenda in your locality. You can access our role descriptor here, which outlines the role of a coaching and mentoring champion.
               
This session will be taking place on Tuesday 6th December at the Barton Grange Hotel in Preston between 9:30am and 4:30pm.
 
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We are looking for coaching and mentoring champions who will be our strategic link to developing a coaching and mentoring culture within their organisation and also support cross-organisational coaching and mentoring. This person will have lead responsibility for setting the coaching and mentoring strategy within their organisation and utilising support from the NHS North West Leadership Academy (NHS NWLA) where appropriate, promoting coaching and mentoring and for supporting coaches, coachees, mentors and mentees across their organisation.
 
Our champions model has been in effect for a number of years and we are excited to announce that we have reviewed how we support our champions to build and develop a coaching and mentoring culture within their organisations. This includes developing a network of champions for peer support, shadowing opportunities, joint partnership working and sharing practice and learning. We also have commissioned specific CPD opportunities for our champions to access following feedback from the network on learning needs and areas of developments for the champions role. We have aligned our coaching and mentoring support so that champions have access to information on both areas and identified how we can support champions progressing internal models and what support they can access through the NHS NWLA systems and processes.
          
Once we receive your application form, we will arrange a telephone call with Rehana Begum, our Coaching and Mentoring Leadership Development Manager, to discuss your application and the role further.
          
We would love to see you on the day and if you have any queries in the meantime, please don't hesitate to get in touch at NWLA.coachingandmentoring@nhs.net or give us a call on 0161 625 7809.
               
Kind regards,      
NHS North West Leadership Academy - Coaching and Mentoring 

If you have any comments or require further information please contact us on 0161 625 7348 or email us at NWLA.info@nhs.net
                
Best wishes
NHS North West Leadership Academy   

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‘The workplace is a great place to provide opportunities for staff to be more active and evidence tells us the benefits for the employer are many fold – improved morale, team working and performance as well as a more committed and engaged workforce. In this context being active doesn’t just mean engaging in team sports, putting on those running shoes and trips to the gym. It includes a range of activity like workplace singing , dancing , gardening, organized thematic walks and cycling too. For example singing has many physical and psychological benefits because it is an aerobic activity that increases oxygenation in the blood stream and exercises major muscle groups in the upper body, even when sitting. So we would love to hear about your more creative responses to getting people more active too’
 
Applications for the award will help NHS organisations to meet section 9 of the new CQUIN guidance https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/HWB-CQUIN-Guidance.pdf
 
To find out more click here

What is buddying?Buddying is an informal mentoring relationship between a new starter in your team and a more experienced, established team member. This is normally someone working in the same role as the new starter, although not always. This relationship provides a less formal sounding board for the new starter to ask questions about the role as they settle in, helps the new starter to understand the culture of the team and provides another level of support for the new starter in addition to their manager.

Read more about it HERE

Thursday 16th June 2016
Education Centre, The Royal Oldham Hospital
13:00  – 16:00 pm
 
If you would like a place on this session please email medicaleducation.troh@pat.nhs.uk
 
Only book onto these courses if you are able to attend the FULL session. If you leave early, arrive late or miss any part of the session you will not receive a certificate and it will be logged that you have not completed the course. All training courses are very popular and we run it on a first come first serve basis and have a reserve list when they are full therefore it would be unfair to partially attend when we have doctors keen to attend the full session.
 
As you are aware there is a cost to these courses which is being covered by the Medical and Dental Education Department. We re-claim this funding from Health Education North West (HENW) and are required to submit a register of attendees to secure the funding.  If you are unable to attend the course, it is vital that you let us know at your earliest opportunity so that a colleague on the reserve list can take your place. Failure to notify the department of your withdrawal from the course may result in an invoice to cover the cost of your place on the course as we will be unable to re-claim this from HENW.