ILM Level 7 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring Skills for the Healthcare Sector Programme

ILM Level 7 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring Skills for the Healthcare Sector Programme

Course Overview

Whether your aim is to use coaching and mentoring as a structured organisational tool or to take a more coaching approach to your leadership, this Level 7 programme is delivered by experienced senior leaders and executive coaches who bring the training to life with a wealth of real-world case studies and stories. 

Accredited by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM), the programme is delivered in two modules, each of three days duration. 

If you are interested in this course, please register your interest by emailing eleanor.morgan@convenzis.co.uk. 

Learners engaging with the programme will: 

  • Raise awareness of the organisational and strategic purposes of coaching and mentoring. 

  • Explore the knowledge, skills, behaviours, and practices necessary for coaching and mentoring at senior and executive levels. 

  • Understand the intricacies of delivering coaching and mentoring interventions in complex organisations and at senior levels. 

  • Consider how to build an effective organisational coaching and mentoring culture. 

  • Gain insight into the psychology that underpins the taught theories, models, and concepts. 

  • Consider ethical practice when operating as a coach or mentor. 

  • Develop their professional practice by carrying out regular coaching and mentoring throughout the taught modules, followed by onward observed and supervised coaching and mentoring practice. 

  • Plan, deliver, and review their own coaching and mentoring interventions. 

  • Be able to identify and design onward professional development activities as a coach or mentor operating at a senior or executive level. 

Delegates will be required to read the pre-course workbook and undertake a few short reflective exercises ahead of the programme commencing. This will take approximately 2 hours. 

Once the taught element of the programme concludes, learner support continues through regular tutorials and coaching supervision sessions. 

Accreditation:

To achieve the ILM Level 7 Certificate Accreditation, learners are required to complete three formal assignments. 

Assignment 1 - Unit Number & Credit Value (CV): 700 – Understanding the Principles and Practice of Effective Coaching and Mentoring at an Executive or Senior Level (CV 5) 

Assessment Method:

Assignment 

Assignment 2 - Unit Number & Credit Value (CV): 701 – Undertaking Coaching or Mentoring at an Executive or Senior Level (Certificate Only: requires 20 evidenced hours of coaching practice and 4 evidenced hours of supervision) (CV 4) 

Assessment Method:

Portfolio 

Assignment 3 - Unit Number & Credit Value (CV): 703 – Reflecting on Your Ability to Perform Effectively as a Coach or Mentor at an Executive or Senior Level (CV 5) 

Assessment Method:

Reflective Journal 

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Module 1: 24th - 26th March 2025 | Module 2: 19th - 21st May 2025 | London
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Module 1: 2nd - 4th February 2026 | Module 2: 16th - 18th March 2026 | Online
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This course, tailored to suit, can be delivered in your organisation. Discuss this further with our CPD team on 0161 8200 631 or click below to make an enquiry.

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The Agenda

09:00

Module 1 - Day 1

  • The role of contracting in coaching and mentoring relationships
  • How to define coaching and mentoring and understand similarities and differences
  • The core competencies of an effective coach or mentor
  • How to build trust and rapport in a coaching or mentoring relationship
  • Coaching and mentoring models
  • Initial coaching or mentoring practice

09:00

Module 1 - Day 2

  • Developing ourselves as reflective practitioners
  • Ethical guidelines for coaches and mentors
  • The role and impact of effective communication
  • Additional coaching models
  • Foundational psychological concepts for effective coaches and mentors
  • Introducing values-based coaching
  • Values based coaching or mentoring practice

09:00

Module 1 - Day 3

  • Emotional intelligence for coaches and mentors
  • The role of supervision in developing good practice in coaching and mentoring
  • Coaching as a management tool
  • Tripartite contracting
  • Developing powerful coaching questions
  • Use of metaphor in coaching and mentoring sessions
  • Metaphor based coaching or mentoring practice

09:00

Module 2 - Day 4

  • Supervision session
  • The business case for coaching and mentoring
  • Commissioning and designing organisational coaching and mentoring schemes including evaluation and measurement of return on investment
  • Introduction to positive psychology and strengths-based coaching
  • Strengths based coaching practice

09:00

Module 2 - Day 5

  • Coaching for resilience
  • Understanding your personal style as a coach or mentor
  • Group dynamics in coaching practice
  • Introduction to team coaching
  • Team coaching session

09:00

Module 2 - Day 6

  • The psychology of executive coaching and mentoring
  • Executive coaching and mentoring tools and techniques
  • The role of business management tools in the executive coaching domain
  • Developing your coaching and mentoring profile
  • The complexity of operating at the executive level
  • Co-coaching practice

09:00

Module Info

Module 1: The first 3 days of the programme are designed to lay the foundations of effective and ethical coaching and mentoring practice.

Between modules delegates will be required to undertake at least one coaching or mentoring session in their organisational setting.

Module 2: Builds on the foundational skills developed in Module 1 extending the learners toolkit in addition to exploring the complexity of coaching and mentoring in organisational settings and at senior levels.

Once the taught element of the programme concludes learner support continues through regular tutorials and coaching supervision sessions until such a time as the qualification standard is met and gains accreditation.

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