Coaching Professional Apprenticeship Level 5
This apprenticeship is ideal for anyone who wants to develop their coaching skills within an organisational context. This might be as a dedicated coach, a team leader or manager, trainer, or teacher. The aim of a coaching professional apprenticeship is to enable coaches to work with a range of individuals and teams and across organisations, to empower and engage them to enhance their professional performance.
Coaching is a way of leading in a non-directive manner, helping people to learn through deep listening and reflective, open questions rather than instructing or giving advice. The purpose of coaching is building the self-belief of others, regardless of the context, to be curious and self-aware, better equipping them to collaborate, innovate, deal with the increasing pace of change and get the best from, increasingly diverse environments. Effective coaching is future focussed, releasing the potential of individuals and teams, enabling transformation and change for business improvement whilst also bringing about positive changes in leadership style and organisational culture.
The apprenticeship applies to all organisations and sectors; we offer two pathways:
The Professional Pathway is designed to support the development of professional coaching skills in a range of sectors, including business and professional services, finance, technology, engineering and manufacturing, retail, leisure, health, and construction. This pathway is delivered by the professional team, who are experienced in coaching, leadership and management, and provide links into all aspects of coaching within an organisational and business context.
The Education Pathway, a specialised route, is designed to support the development of academic staff. You’ll develop coaching skills to support growth and development of high-quality teaching, learning and assessment across a school, college or university. This pathway is delivered by the highly experienced teacher training team.
There is an option to add the ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring to this programme. This will be by negotiation and agreement with the course tutor.
Timetable Information
This is a part-time programme with lessons timetabled on a Thursday. You will be in College fortnightly, with short 1-1s or small group meetings on Teams in the alternate weeks. On these days you will be expected to carry out your work-based coaching sessions, write up your reflections and work on your assessment tasks.
Careers and Employability
Successful completion of this programme can lead to progression higher level qualifications, including the CMI Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (CMDA)
An employee in this occupation will be responsible for:
The coaching relationship with the coachees and /or signposting to other services
Quality assurance and continued development of their own practice
Furthering the coaching culture.
Working with organisational management to embed coaching skills in future or current leadership
Potential job titles may include: Business Coach, Career Coach, Coach, Coaching Practitioner, Coaching Professional, Leadership Coach, Performance Coach, Systemic Coach, Team Coach, Wellbeing Coach.
Or you may be an existing or future leader / manager able adopt a coach leadership style.
Progression from Level 5 Coach Apprenticeship could be to:
Professional body accreditation e.g. European Mentoring and Coaching Council EMCC
Coaching qualification at Level 7 e.g. ILM Certificate in Executive Coaching and Mentoring
Leadership qualifications e.g. CMI Level 7
A degree apprenticeship e.g. Chartered Management Degree Apprenticeship
Master’s Degree or post-graduate certificate in coaching, or leadership and management
Potential job roles
Business Coach
Career Coach
Coach
Coaching Practitioner
Coaching Professional
Leadership Coach
Performance Coach
Systemic Coach
Team Coach
Wellbeing Coach
Or you may be an existing or future leader / manager able adopt a coach leadership style.
Please note to complete an apprenticeship with us, you will be required to find an employer vacancy. If you do not have an employer, the below links are useful places to find an apprenticeship:
South Devon College is committed to supporting all interested students in finding an employer and offer careers guidance, CV writing skills and interview techniques to help support your search for an apprenticeship.
Course Details
- You will be required to have a telephone or personal interview with the tutor
- You will be required to have achieved English at Level 2
- You will be required to have achieved Maths at Level 2
- Complete a pre-course questionnaire to outline your range and level of academic qualifications and experience to demonstrate the relevance to this apprenticeship.
Aspects of Knowledge including:
Differences between coaching, mentoring, counselling, training and consulting
Theories relating to learning, reflective practice, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, motivation, diversity and bias
The organisational context of coaching including structure, culture and leadership
Coaching ethics and relevant legislation
Coaching Skills including:
Communication skills including questioning, listening, delivering and asking for feedback
Contracting and developing rapport to build coaching relationship
Working with those receiving coaching to set clear goals and prioritised action plans and monitoring progress towards goals
Time management, stakeholder management and management of boundaries
Application of coaching models, techniques, and tools
Behaviours including:
Committed to self-development and improvement of coaching practice through reflection, supervision and personal development plans
Self-awareness, including of their own behaviours, values, beliefs and attitudes
Being spontaneous, open and flexible, demonstrating respect and engendering trust
How will I Learn?
You will learn through a combination of taught sessions and practical activities, including practice coaching sessions. There will be regular tasks to complete enabling you to receive feedback on your progress. You will also learn through regular coaching sessions in the workplace, writing up summaries of each of these and reflecting on your own learning and development as a coach.
Course Applications
Please choose your preferred study option below (subject to change).
This course costs: £0.00
If the amount shown is more than £0.00 and you are aged 19 and over at the start of the course, you may have options to help fund your studies with us. The funding you can receive depends on your personal circumstances, and could mean you are entitled to fully subsidised or reduced tuition fees.
Many of our courses are fully funded for 16-18 year olds however not all courses are available for this age group.
You may also be entitled to support with travel, childcare and equipment.
To find out exactly what you could receive, contact our Helpzone team on 08000 380 123 for a free, impartial appointment, with no commitment necessary.
This course costs: £
If the amount shown is more than £0.00 and you are aged 19 and over at the start of the course, you may have options to help fund your studies with us. The funding you can receive depends on your personal circumstances, and could mean you are entitled to fully subsidised or reduced tuition fees.
Many of our courses are fully funded for 16-18 year olds however not all courses are available for this age group.
You may also be entitled to support with travel, childcare and equipment.
To find out exactly what you could receive, contact our Helpzone team on 08000 380 123 for a free, impartial appointment, with no commitment necessary.
This course costs: £
If the amount shown is more than £0.00 and you are aged 19 and over at the start of the course, you may have options to help fund your studies with us. The funding you can receive depends on your personal circumstances, and could mean you are entitled to fully subsidised or reduced tuition fees.
Many of our courses are fully funded for 16-18 year olds however not all courses are available for this age group.
You may also be entitled to support with travel, childcare and equipment.
To find out exactly what you could receive, contact our Helpzone team on 08000 380 123 for a free, impartial appointment, with no commitment necessary.
“The content of this course was very interesting and applicable to my occupation. It helped me to explore leadership and management concepts further which I can now apply in my role."Joan Audas
