Level 5 Certificate in Professional Coaching Practice

Our Level 5 Certificate in Professional Coaching Practice is an ideal qualification for people with responsibility for coaching.  It covers planning and preparing specific learning and development opportunities and requires you to practise your coaching skills in the workplace as well as gaining an understanding of the principles of professional coaching.

Learner Intentions 

The course is also designed to support you to move into a development role or to start a career as a freelance coach.  It will enable you to:

• Understand the principles of professional coaching
• Plan, prepare and deliver effective professional coaching
• Reflect on professional coaching practice to improve coaching capability
• Assess your own skills, behaviours, and knowledge as a coach
• Provide evidence of your own development as a coach

All applicants must attend a bespoke information session and informal interview to discuss their qualifications, experience, workplace role, motivation, and aspirations.

You need evidence of:

• A recognised Level 2 or equivalent qualification in English
• A Level 3 qualification and/or a demonstration of your ability to work at Level 5
• Coaching as part of your workplace role. You must be able to undertake a minimum of 12 hours of formal and contracted coaching with supervision and support and be able to show how you have reflected on your performance
• The capacity to attend ten classrooms-based learning sessions during the programme, take part in a minimum of two tutorials and engage in a minimum of two workplace observations/supervision. Independent study is a key expectation to enable you to learn and achieve

Coaching Theory / Practice / Skills

Demonstrate Practical coaching skills and behaviour:

• Practical contracted coaching (12 hours)
• Observations / Supervisions x 2
• Tutorials x 2

The course is delivered using a range of ten classroom-based sessions, two hours of supervision and workplace observations.

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Assessment is through coursework and an exciting range of assessment methods. These include observations of your coaching practice, self-evaluation, reflective tasks, written assignments, individual and group activities. All assessment methods have been designed to focus on skills specific to the professional coach, while incorporating key transferable skills. Some assessments require you to apply theory to your own practice and you are expected to engage with academic research and learning theory.

You could progress into a coaching role in any organisational setting. This could be an educational setting, or into a work-based teaching and learning role such as assessor-coach. 

This qualification may provide progression opportunities to other CMI qualifications such as the CMI Level 5 in Leadership and Management or the Diploma in Professional Coaching.