OwnHealth Choice Self Care Coaching Course

The OwnHealth Choice Self Care Coaching Course sits at the core of the programme and includes training in communication skills, Motivational Interviewing and care management. RCN accredited course.

Coaching

What does the coaching course entail?

The OwnHealth Self Care Coaching Course is highly interactive and uses actors and workbooks to both enhance and support the learning style of the delegates. By drawing together key aspects of the Self Care Coaching Course, learners are able to competently support and work with people with long term conditions, directing behavioural change and enabling patients to be competent self managers.

The course includes the role of the Care Manager; communication skills and using Motivational Interviewing techniques to support behavioural change.

  • Care management challenges the traditional models of care, and supports a working partnership between the patient and the Care Manager. The care management training provides the learner and ultimately the patient with a model for self management, known as the Basic 8 Self Management Priorities:

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  • The communication skills element of the training equips staff of all levels with the skills they require to express themselves more effectively, have more influence with colleagues and patients, and appear more confident in front of others.
  • Motivational Interviewing techniques sit at the core of the Self Care Coaching Course, and by using a directive patient-centred style of consulting which is designed to help people to explore and resolve ambivalence about behaviour change.
    Click here to download an audio file to hear an example of motivational interviewing being used in practice

The intended outcome of the programme is to equip staff to support behavioural change and to enable patients to self manage.

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