Coaching and mentoring are key tools for personal and professional development. They help individuals achieve career goals, strengthen leadership skills, navigate transitions, and build resilience. The NHS North West Leadership Academy believes every single NHS staff member should have access to coaching and mentoring resources, support and development opportunities, as highlighted in the 10 Year Plan.

Coaching and Mentoring Hub

The NHS North West Leadership Academy’s Coaching and Mentoring Hub provides a high quality, confidential service matching mentees with trained mentors, and matching coachees with experienced and qualified coaches. Users can create a profile, manage coaching or mentoring relationships, book onto upcoming events, and access supporting resources.

North West Coaching Collaborative

The North West Coaching Collaborative has been launched as a new regional partnership bringing together:

• NHS North West Leadership Academy
• North West ADASS
• North West Employers

The collaboration has a clear and shared ambition: to make coaching accessible to everyone working across the North West public sector.

Vision

The partnership aims to create a North West where:

• Coaching is widely understood, valued, and embedded in practice.
• Access to coaching is straightforward and available to people at all levels.
• Leaders use coaching to enhance outcomes, performance, and wellbeing.
• A strong, connected coaching community contributes to system-wide impact.

Getting Involved

Coaches who wish to join the North West Coaching Collaborative are encouraged to opt in during the registration process. This option can be found in stage 1 of the registration form, after selecting their organisation.

Those who are already registered on the Hub can take part by editing their profile and opting in to become a member of the North West Coaching Collaborative.

Network Learning Events

Held annually, the Network Learning Events provide a dedicated space for North West coaches and mentors to connect with peers and engage within a supportive network of like-minded professionals, sharing best practice across the region. These events are structured around essential continuing professional development (CPD) and focus on key topics and the latest research to enhance knowledge, skills, and effectiveness, supporting the development of coaching and mentoring cultures across North West NHS organisations. Previous topics have included navigating uncertainty and challenge, neurodiversity, and team coaching.

Resources

Coaching lunch and learn videos

A series of 8 bitesize learning sessions on key coaching development topics.

Leadership Live: Leading and Coaching with Authenticity

This episode of the Leadership Live podcast explores authentic leadership, the power of self-awareness and one-to-one coaching, a practice that can hold the key to unlocking individual potential.

Mentoring workbook for executives and senior leaders

This guide is designed to support executive and senior leaders in developing a reflective and impactful mentoring practice.

View HTML version of the mentoring workbook

Leadership Live: Building a Coaching Culture

The episode explores the topic of cultivating a coaching culture and how to foster these supportive environments across both organisations and teams, creating spaces where authentic leaders nurture individual growth and help people to flourish. 

Collaborative masterclass: Coaching and Mentoring – Say Less, Ask More 2024

Watch this masterclass to learn how coaching and mentoring can help middle managers understand themselves better, have better day-to-day conversations with staff, and improve team performance.

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If you have further questions about coaching or mentoring, please email: [email protected]