Our Mission

To make Coaching and Mentoring available and accessible to all within the Pool.

Our Vision

To build a culture of coaching and mentoring across Health and Social Care within Buckinghamshire by:


  1. Creating organisational growth mindsets.
  2. Ensure that senior leaders buy into and engage in coaching.
  3. Accredit internal coaches and mentors.
  4. Help everyone develop the capability to use coaching skills.
  5. Make coaching and feedback part of everyday life.

Services and Programmes offered

as part of the Buckinghamshire Coaching and Mentoring Pool:

Interested in finding a Coach at Work?

Complete the below application form.

Click here for the application form

Level 3 Coaching and Mentoring Workshop

BHSCA are running an Advantage accredited workshop to gain a qualification in Coaching & Mentoring.

Learn more about Level 3

Level 5 Coaching and Mentoring Workshop

BHSCA are running an Advantage accredited workshop to gain a qualification in Coaching & Mentoring.

Learn more about Level 5

Find a Leadership Mentor

Mentoring as a means of improving Leadership skills in the workplace.

Learn more and apply

Reciprocal Mentoring Programme

An opportunity for individuals from across organisations to work with senior colleagues in a partnership and share their lived experience.

More information

Executive Coaching

Involves a series of one-on-one interactions between an executive and an external coach.

More about Exec Coaching

360° Leadership Feedback

A process using leadership feedback, gathered from an employee's teams, peers, colleagues and supervisors, as well as self-evaluation.

More information

Let's talk about Vaccines -

Change Coaches 2-day programme

Following the success of Let’s Talk About Vaccines (LTaV) training, we are launching a two-day Change Coaches course. This new course provides coaching tools and support to enable you to have meaningful conversations with patients and the public to help people make informed decisions around vaccinations.


The UK is currently experiencing a significant decrease in vaccine coverage and an increasing risk of vaccine-preventable diseases. The Change Coaches course provides you with an opportunity to support vaccination uptake.


This is a fully interactive and reflective programme with opportunities to practice techniques, discuss experience and approaches with peers and colleagues and reflect on practice.


Please note: It is not mandatory to have already taken the Let's Talk about Vaccine Training course to attend these sessions.

  • The cohort:

    To apply for this course, you must have completed the Let’s Talk About Vaccines training. Visit the LTaV webpage (linked below) to view and register. 


    The Let’s Talk About Vaccines - Change Coaches course is available to health, social care and voluntary sector staff across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.


    There are 20 places available on this course.

Visit the LTaV webpage here.

  • The course offers an excellent opportunity to:

    • Collaborate with other healthcare professionals
    • Develop skills to encourage conversations about vaccination 
    • Learn theory, skills and knowledge to apply to day-to-day conversation with your service users
    • Build on and embed the coaching methods you learnt in the Let’s Talk About Vaccines session

  • Supporting your Learning:

    As part of the programme you will be asked to develop a portfolio of work to support your learning. Much of the content will be covered during the training but there will also be a requirement to add to this portfolio outside of the training sessions. 


    In order to help you share the new knowledge and skills you develop on the course with colleagues, the application form asks you to name a change sponsor who can support you and help embed change in your organisation or team. 


  • Modules will include:

    • Understanding how people learn and think
    • Understanding a coaching mindset
    • Structuring conversations using a coaching approach
    • Practicing key communication skills
    • Using Making Every Contact Count (MECC) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) to support behaviour change
    • A range of tools to explore vaccine hesitancy 

  • Location of workshops

    All face-to-face workshops will take place at the Village Hotel Portsmouth, which is linked below.

View the Village Hotel Portsmouth website here

  • Workshop dates:

    • Thursday 28th November 2024 (09:30 – 16:30)
    • Friday 29th November 2024 (09:30 – 16:30)
    • Graduation: Thursday 27th February 2025 (12:30 – 15:00)

    • Additional community of practice events will take place online via MS teams to support you with the portfolio of work and to share good practice.

If you would like to book your place for this amazing opportunity, please follow the below link to apply:

Application Form

If you have any questions about this programme, please contact jason.greasley1@nhs.net

The process of establishing a coaching relationship

  • Identify the need for coaching.
  • Find suitable coach via the Coaching Pool.
  • Discuss the needs for coaching, agree on coaching goals, and establish timeframes and review mechanisms with coach, individual and line manager (if required).
  • Commence coaching interventions with coach and coachee.

  • Benefits of Coaching and Mentoring

    Research shows that coaching and mentoring can lead to:


    • Improved sense of direction and focus
    • More confidence
    • Improved decision making 
    • Increased knowledge of self and self-awareness
    • Less conflict
    • Improved performance effectiveness
    • Reduced staff turnover
    • Stronger motivation
    • Lifelong learning and individual responsibility for the learning

  • What is coaching?

    Coaching enhances performance by empowering you and your team members to take on greater responsibility and leadership roles. Coaching is based on the principle that an individual is ultimately responsible for their lives and the results they are getting.


    For example, if you are not getting the results that you want at work, a coach may support you to:

    • Understand the situation more clearly
    • Develop new ideas or approaches for such situations
    • Take constructive action that gets you the results you want

    What a coach will not do is instruct you to go and do something specific or do it for you.


    It is a one-to-one process that enables individuals to improve their skills, behaviours and performance. Managers can use coaching to enhance the performance of individuals and teams, and to create positive, direction change. 

    Coaching helps managers move from transactional to transformational styles that empower staff and can play a crucial role in building the capacity and capability of the workforce. 

  • What is mentoring?

    Mentoring supports and encourages people to manage their own learning, in order to maximise their potential, develop their skills, improve their performance and become the person they want to be.


    Mentoring allows:

    • Off–line support to encourage innovation and creativity, through an external sounding board able to challenge assumptions.
    • Working beyond professional/organisational boundaries, to develop wider understanding and recognise the ‘bigger picture’.
    • Development of leadership skills for inevitable ongoing changes: ‘time out’ to reflect on own and others’ learning and leadership approaches.
    • Feedback, challenge and support from an impartial person, able to ask powerful questions and unlock potential.

  • Differences between coaching and mentoring


    Coaching and Mentoring use many of the same skills but how they are used will vary depending on the service being provided.


    Coaching:

    • Applicable for all levels of staff.
    • Cannot coach someone who does not want to be coached. 
    • Supports the coachee to generate their own ideas. 
    • Time bound and to meet specific identified goals. 
    • Utilises different approaches, models and interventions.

    Mentoring:

    • Benefits depend on the quality of the relationship.
    • Expert in their field, advising, supporting and guiding others.
    • Benefits can be to both mentor and mentee.

See more information below on 'Coaching as an Intervention'

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Roles within Coaching

Please click below for:

Kasia Nissanka

Organisational Development and Leadership Faculty Project Manager 

Kasia is a certified transformational life and career coach holding ACC ICF credentials (International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach). She holds a Master’s Degree in Occupational Psychology and has over ten years of experience working in Health and Social Care.


Since 2018, Kasia has been working as a coach, supporting professionals at all levels (from graduates to senior leaders) with issues related to confidence, stress management, career change and transitions. She is trained in a trauma informed coaching approach and is passionate about increasing the awareness of early childhood experiences and how they may impact our personal and professional lives. Kasia’s main value is authenticity, and her aspiration is to be able to implement authenticity as one of the core values in today’s organisations, where employees feel connected, safe, and empowered to unlock their full potential. 


Kasia joined the BHSCA in February 2023 and is honoured to participate in the mission of implementing a coaching culture and learning mindset within organisations.

Email Kasia below:

Jason Greasley

Head of Coaching and Leadership Transformation

Coaching

Jason has been coaching for many years, both formally and informally, and has worked with people from a variety of backgrounds, including the military, NHS, Council and more recently the charitable sector. Jason is an Executive Coach and Mentor and is qualified in ILM, EMCC, Team Coaching, Psychometric Assessments, Neuro Linguistic Programing and Workplace Mediation. His coaching philosophy is all about enabling individuals to work towards being the best they can be and supporting them to change their relationship to a problem.


Mentoring

Jason has been a leader and manager for over 20 years in different sectors and has managed large departments, divisions and complex teams, both in the UK and abroad. He has a passion for development and is qualified in project, risk and change management, leadership development, equality diversity & inclusion, mental health first aid and human factors. Jason has mentored many people over the years, mainly in the capacity to support them on their leadership journey.

Email Jason below:

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