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Coaching and Mentoring

Dorset has developed an excellent coaching faculty over the last 18 months providing access to many qualified and very experience coaches. Within the coaching faculty we have a number of qualified and experienced mentors.

  • ‘I wasn’t sure what to expect from GP coaching when I expressed an interest.  But I felt that anything was worth a go if it might help me come to terms with my career. As it turned out, it has felt more like coming to terms with myself.

    For me, coaching sessions have been a precious and valuable space to be challenged to reflect on myself and my priorities, and to take ownership of my life and career. When I expressed an interest originally, I felt like I had been drifting along in my career, at best passive, at worst helpless, allowing other people and external factors to dictate the currents of my career. 

    However, as my coaching has progressed, so have I become more active at accepting my responsibilities for my own life and asserting my agency. I have come to believe that if I wanted things to change for me, it was me who could change them.’

    Confessions of a Dorset GP Coachee

  • Coaching and the Dorset approach

    Coaching provides you with a safe, confidential space to talk openly, work through things and take action. We have qualified coaches working both within NHS Dorset and across the Dorset Integrated Care System that can support you.

    To enquire about accessing coaching, please email TrainingHub@OurDorset.nhs.uk

    Click here for more info about the General Practice Coaching Faculty >> 

     

  • What is Coaching?

    There are researched and proven benefits to be being coached and can support you in the following areas:

     

    • Improve your sense of direction, clarity of thoughts and focus
    • Re-boot your passion for what you are doing
    • Facilitate your decision making at crossroad points in your career
    • Help identify key priorities
    • Develop your capacity to take on new roles and responsibilities
    • Provide a safe place to discuss motivations and refresh thinking about challenges and opportunities
    • Assist you when starting in a new role
    • Improved level of self and other awareness
    • Facilitate exploration of fresh perspectives to tricky challenges

  • Contact us

    If you are interested in finding a coach or a mentor please register your interest  by emailing TrainingHub@OurDorset.nhs.uk