Coaching Professional

Apprenticeship Standard

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Course Overview

This apprenticeship develops professional coaches who work with individuals and teams to enhance performance, build self awareness and enable sustainable change.

You will develop the skills, knowledge and behaviours needed to deliver high quality coaching across a range of organisational contexts. The programme focuses on non directive coaching, ethical practice, contracting, reflective learning and the use of recognised coaching models and techniques.

By the end of the apprenticeship, you will be confidently coaching individuals and teams to unlock potential, navigate change and improve performance while maintaining professional standards and integrity.

Who Is This For?

This apprenticeship is suitable for:

  • Aspiring or existing professional coaches

  • Leaders and managers embedding a coaching approach

  • Learning and development professionals

  • HR and organisational development practitioners

  • Professionals delivering one to one, team or leadership coaching

  • Individuals supporting change, performance or wellbeing

  • Learners able to meet English and Maths requirements

As a Coaching Professional, you will:

  • Work with individuals and teams to enhance professional performance

  • Deliver one to one and team coaching sessions

  • Use deep listening, questioning and reflection to enable insight

  • Build self belief, confidence and resilience in others

  • Support change, transition and transformation

  • Maintain ethical coaching practice and boundaries

  • Evaluate coaching impact and return on investment

  • Commit to supervision, reflection and continuous development

Coaching may take place face to face or remotely and across a wide range of sectors and organisational settings.

  • Coaching Professional

  • Business Coach

  • Career Coach

  • Leadership Coach

  • Performance Coach

  • Team Coach

  • Wellbeing Coach

  • Sustainability Coach

  • Coaching Practitioner

You will develop knowledge of:

  • Coaching theory, models and approaches

  • Ethical practice, boundaries and codes of conduct

  • Differences between coaching, mentoring, training and counselling

You will develop skills to:

  • Contract and recontract effectively

  • Maintain professional boundaries and confidentiality

  • Work within ethical and legal frameworks

You will develop knowledge of:

  • Emotional and social intelligence

  • Reflective practice and learning theories

  • Diversity, inclusion and bias

You will develop skills to:

  • Build self awareness in yourself and others

  • Adapt coaching to diverse individuals and contexts

  • Use self reflection to improve practice

You will develop knowledge of:

  • A range of coaching models and techniques

  • Goal setting and outcome focused approaches

  • Feedback and evaluation methods

You will develop skills to:

  • Deliver responsive and effective coaching sessions

  • Use questioning and listening to enable insight

  • Support coachees to define and commit to actions

  • Apply tools and techniques appropriate to context

You will develop knowledge of:

  • Organisational culture and leadership styles

  • Stakeholder management and systems thinking

You will develop skills to:

  • Manage coaching contracts with sponsors and coachees

  • Work with senior leaders and diverse stakeholders

  • Design coaching interventions aligned to organisational objectives

You will develop knowledge of:

  • Measuring coaching effectiveness and return on investment

  • Supervision, CPD and quality assurance

You will develop skills to:

  • Evaluate coaching outcomes and impact

  • Maintain records of coaching practice

  • Engage in supervision and peer support

  • Commit to ongoing professional development

You will consistently demonstrate professional behaviours including:

  • Commitment to self development and reflection

  • High levels of self awareness and resilience

  • Acting as an ambassador for a coaching mindset

  • Flexibility, openness and respect for others

English and Maths qualifications must be achieved in line with apprenticeship funding rules

This apprenticeship aligns with professional recognition from:

  • European Mentoring and Coaching Council – Accredited Coaching Practitioner

  • Association for Coaching – Accredited Coach

  • International Coach Federation – Associate Certified Coach

Qualification Details

  • Standard: Coaching Professional
  • Level: 5
  • Typical Duration: 14 months
  • Route: Business and Administration
  • Status: Approved for delivery
  • EQA Provider: Ofqual
Coaching Professional Level 5 Apprenticeship Standard