CAREER COACHING
Don’t leave it to luck, chance or fate to decide your future.
Career coaching unlocks potential and transforms lives. Gain confidence in yourself and your decisions and learn how to create and maximise career opportunities.
Not everyone can envisage a clear career path from a young age and many medical and healthcare professionals are driven by a deep, genuine desire to work in a role where they can truly make a difference to people.
Some will say that it’s a ‘calling’ or a ‘vocation’ which goes way beyond that of being just a job.
However, the reality is that medical and healthcare careers are often more complicated than that. And particularly since the pandemic, continuing to keep going in a broken NHS system can feel too much. You may be trying to keep your head above water with best intentions to do your job as well as you can but ignoring that nagging feeling for too long telling you it’s not working any longer, can become detrimental not only to your career but also to your health.
What can career coaching offer?
There are many reasons why you might feel that now is the time to explore your career options. Career coaching can help you at any stage of your professional journey, whether you recently graduated and feel unsure as to whether you made the right career decision, or you feel disillusioned with how you see your career progressing in the NHS or you’ve been feeling burnt-out for too long.
Life is too short to remain unhappy in your job and if it’s unsustainable for your health, now’s the time to consider a move. You always have a choice to create a different path for yourself – the route there may, at times, be challenging, but it can be achieved with enough determination and drive.
Understandably though, career changes are big decisions and they require a period of deep self-reflection which can often be difficult to do alone. Sometimes, it’s just hard to see the wood for the trees because you might feel as if you cannot get off the treadmill of being in your job, rather than having the opportunity to reflect on it. Or you may feel overwhelmed by everything you hear about other industries and how clinicians seem to break into them, making it difficult to know just how to get started for yourself.
This is where career coaching can help – it allows you valuable time away from your present reality to think, pause, reflect, reboot – and to have someone hold up the mirror to your own career and help you to decide the next important steps.
That’s how I can support you.
Outcomes
Coaching will help you to become clearer about your strengths, interests, values and personal stressors. It helps to cut through the confusion and uncertainty that career dilemmas can pose and may challenge you to view your career from an alternative perspective and to identify and overcome barriers to change. The process will help to identify and research possible career options and pathways that are aligned with these, potentially in a similar role, a sideways move or a complete career change.
Through our discussions, you will develop a clear action plan with achievable outcomes and receive support to be accountable for them. Ultimately, coaching helps to define exactly where you really want to be headed next in your career.
The benefits of career coaching are usually best when a series of sessions are booked together to allow time for research and reflection in between them. However, you can just book a one-off session if you wish to have a sounding board to talk through a quick decision you are trying to make.
Is it right for me?
Yes, if you are currently facing a career challenge, dilemma or are at a crossroads, coaching will benefit you.
It can help to:
- Create growth opportunities in your current role
- Understand whether further study may benefit you
- Decide whether to take a promotion or change roles
- Plan and mark out a clear career progression route
- Develop networking skills to maximise job opportunities or get a role created for you
- Gain confidence/delegation skills in leadership roles
- Improve resilience skills to ensure a sustainable career
- Consider another career path that would continue to utilise the clinical skills you have acquired
- Explore and develop a portfolio career
- Explore unadvertised opportunities in the ‘hidden job market’
- Support you to look after your wellbeing if you are feeling burnt-out
- Consider leaving the clinical sector and seek a non-clinical role
- Return to work after a period of ill-health or a significant career break
- Support you in seeking other opportunities/interests if you are approaching retirement
Packages start from £375.
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100% client satisfaction
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“I have been working with Julia for several months and she has helped me in securing a job of my dreams. She advised me to email and approach private providers. If it hadn’t been for her suggestion I wouldn’t have a new job. She was kind and compassionate throughout coaching and gave great advice. Thank you.”
UV
“Would highly recommend. Found the values-based approach to the career work very helpful and the action plans at the end of our sessions helped me to feel focused and to make progress. Thank you Julia”
AD
“I found my sessions with Julia really helpful and have subsequently found a new role within the charity sector, which is a change of direction for me. Interview preparation with Julia was so beneficial!”
MN
“Julia is an active listener who has helped me to identify my career goals providing pragmatic advice and support. She challenges appropriately but does so in an empathic, helpful way. Through her support, she helped me to carve out a pathway to gaining a senior post in healthcare. I’m delighted with my new role and would highly recommend booking one of her coaching packages.”
BO
“Julia was very helpful in guiding me through different choices setting out a structured approach for me to follow. She gave me homework assignments, to research possible careers and we discussed the results and how to get there. This saved me a lot of time, helped me to make better informed decisions and propelled me to make change in what can be a difficult step in one’s life.”
Mr C
“Through the small struggles of changing jobs and taking on new responsibilities, to the big problems of trying to work through the pandemic, Julia has been indispensable. She has the skill to see through to one’s strengths and has helped me to understand the problems I face and the best ways to work through them. Working with Julia has helped me to tap into my own coping mechanisms but also to recognise my stressors and how to keep myself well-balanced despite the demands of my role.”
JH
“Julia was great in coaching me to successfully transition into a strategic programme management role in healthcare. I would greatly advise using Julia’s services to anyone looking for help and guidance in progressing their career.”
DB
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Supporting, enriching, developing careers.
All Rights Reserved.