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12 CPD Hours (Plus up to 6 "learning with others" hours)

Do you ever wish you could speak your patient's language more effectively? Perhaps you've found yourself giving advice, only for your patients to ignore it completely. This course is designed for practitioners of all experience levels, to help refine and improve your communication skills, creating stronger and more empowered working relationships with all our patients!

Here's a taster of what's covered in the course

Helping you with...

  • More effective patient interactions

    Learn how to talk so patients will listen, and how to listen so your patients feel heard. Covering active listening, simple strategies to build rapport, managing resistance to change, motivational interviewing skills, and much more.

  • Better outcomes from care

    Understand how to set meaningful healthcare goals with your patients- and ensure your patients stick to them! Covering compliance with care, their relationship to improving outcomes from care, shared decision making, and advanced clinical goal setting.

  • Build your thriving, ethical practice

    Know how to put positive, structured boundaries in place to streamline your appointments, reduce no-shows, increase adherence, and manage your work-life balance whilst growing your practice through ethical, person-centred communication skills.

What you'll get

  • Study in your own time with full access to the course for twelve months

  • 6 x one-hour live group coaching webinars

  • Free Health Coaching and Motivational Interviewing Questions eBook

  • Lifetime access to ongoing support and mentoring through the Oakley Coaching Confident Clinicians Academy members-only Facebook group

  • Upon completion, you will receive a "Certificate in Health Coaching and Motivational Interviewing Skills for Healthcare Practitioners"

Setting the standard of online training

Written by clinicians, for clinicians, this course has also been independently reviewed by senior educators to ensure it meets the high standards required of online clinical training. In addition, it meets the requirements for online training as outlined by the NHS Health Coaching Quality Framework, in addition to ECCE and IFOMPT standards.

Course Reviews

5 star rating

Incredibly valuable training

D Russell

This is the second Oakley Coaching course I've undertaken and once again, it does not disappoint. I wanted to find ways to develop and expand my practice in ...

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This is the second Oakley Coaching course I've undertaken and once again, it does not disappoint. I wanted to find ways to develop and expand my practice in an ethical way without feeling like I was pushing a sales speech or following a formula. There is a lot of content here and it's all valuable- I've already recouped the cost of the course in a few short weeks just by using the teaching methods on patient compliance (which are nothing short of genius!) On a side note, its also been great for me personally as I've learnt how to coach myself and complete my own goals too- so roll on the next few years of my business and where it takes me, Thank you, ladies, for putting this training together.

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5 star rating

Awesome course!!!

Sam Davies

I have just completed 'Confident Clinicians Academy: Health Coaching and Motivational Interviewing Skills for Healthcare Professionals' and have honestly lea...

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I have just completed 'Confident Clinicians Academy: Health Coaching and Motivational Interviewing Skills for Healthcare Professionals' and have honestly learnt so much. I don't doubt that I will need to revisit the information in order to solidify the information that I have learnt, but I am so excited to go forward and try to incorporate these skills into practice. I had already started incorporating some of the things I had learnt after doing the first couple of modules, and whilst it was by no means perfect, the skills I had learnt made quite a dramatic difference in the consultation that I had with a New Patient which would normally have made my head spin. Now that I have completed the course I am feeling more confident...I just need to practice now. Practice does make perfect after all. Implementation is all on me! Thanks so much Pip and Rhiannon for a wonderful online learning opportunity. It really is going to make such a difference to such a lot of HCPs xxx

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5 star rating

Improve your patient-centred care

Kate Turner

We're all striving to help patients so I was keen to figure out how to help them help themselves. The coaching content isn't easy and it takes a commitment t...

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We're all striving to help patients so I was keen to figure out how to help them help themselves. The coaching content isn't easy and it takes a commitment to change but after all - if that's what we want from our patients then perhaps we could try it too! Really helpful as a solid start to the journey, so glad I found this course to help me get started.

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What you'll learn

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    • Module Learning Outcomes

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    • The cornerstones of patient consultations: Trust and rapport

    • Why we just don't "click" with some patients: Barriers to effective communication

    • Building better working relationships with our patients

    • Marketing Communications

    • Video Lesson: Getting started with Person Centred Care

    • Effective questions: Getting the information you need

    • Take yourself through a coaching session

    • Module 2 Quiz: Getting Started with Coaching
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    • Module Learning Outcomes

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    • Time management: Avoid overrunning with shared agenda setting

    • T-GROW Model of Coaching: A framework for your conversations

    • Motivational Interviewing: OARS Skills

    • Why we don't always get the full story: Understanding language patterns with NLP

    • Staying focused in consultations: Active and empathic listening

    • Module 3 Quiz: The Coaching Consultation
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    • Module Learning Outcomes

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    • Video Lesson: Why some goals just don't work- Incongruent goals and behaviour

    • Why some patients don't take action: Managing non-compliance

    • Test your understanding: Final Course Quiz
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    • Practical Considerations

    • Becoming an effective coach

    • Let's wrap things up, shall we?

Keen for more?

Pick up a copy of our eBook, available now on Amazon

“How to Coach Your Patients” cuts through the conflicting advice and practice-guru scripts, providing you with evidence-based and easy to understand information that will empower your consultations today! Inside, you’ll find tools, strategies and resources to support you and your patients, with sensible suggestions that you can easily incorporate into your clinic.
Purchase the eBook now

Instructor(s)

Chiropractor, Coach and Mentor with the NHS Leadership Academy

Philippa Oakley

Philippa (she/her) is a qualified chiropractor with ten years experience within the NHS and private health sector. She has a thorough understanding of the demands on team members and can help identify and initiate positive change within your practice. Philippa graduated from the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic and was awarded the RCC’s prize for best research project for her work into how thoughts and feelings surrounding back pain can impact a patient’s response to care. She began her career working for a group of private clinics with an NHS AQP contract, completing a PgCert in Professional Development (Chiropractic) with the AECC and receiving the Graham Heale Award for Outstanding Postgraduate Training Candidate. Philippa is the clinical director of Acorn Health, an award-winning Chiropractic clinic based in Wiltshire, and through Oakley Coaching enjoys working with practitioners to help them develop their soft skills and improve their outcomes from care with coaching and motivational interviewing skills. Philippa holds a SFEDI Level 5 Diploma in Personal Performance Coaching (Distinction), is a Professional Member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and is a Coach and Mentor with the NHS Leadership Academy.

Business Development Strategist, Chartered Marketer

Rhiannon Oakley

Rhiannon (she/her) has extensive experience in marketing, public relations and business consultancy and works to create focus within the team, facilitating communication, prioritising targets and improving service delivery. Rhiannon has a BA (Hons) degree in Events Management and Journalism and started her career working with a diverse portfolio of clients across all industries. After establishing her own marketing and business development consultancy, Acorn Creative, she assisted with the expansion of Acorn Health into a multidisciplinary healthcare clinic and worked as the Practice Manager. She continues to work with businesses across the globe, currently assisting in business support and education programmes for Local Authorities and the Government. An Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Rhiannon has extensive experience in business development for SME’s, start-ups and established businesses and loves helping individuals and teams meet their potential. Rhiannon holds a SFEDI Level 5 Diploma in Personal Performance Coaching (Distinction) and is a Professional Member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. She is an executive career coach and registered Coach and Mentor with the NHS Leadership Academy.