Program Overview

Level 5 Apprenticeships in Coaching

Programme Overview

Bayes Business School is now offering two Level 5 Apprenticeships in Coaching: one for professionals from any industry and one for healthcare professionals fostered by our relationships with healthcare organisations through our flagship Executive Master's in Medical Leadership (EMML) Programme.

Key Information

• Eligibility check form (apprenticeship-levy route): Click on the Apply now button to check if you are eligible to apply for the May/June 2025 Intake.
• Onboarding application: Late Spring 2025 (subject to approval)
• Closing deadline: Mid-April 2025 (subject to approval)
• Delivery: Part-time
• Tuition fee: £5,000
• Apprenticeship levy funding: Eligible organisations will be able to use £5,000 of their apprenticeship levy funding to cover the overall cost.

Programme Structure

The structure of each programme is based on four modules that run over the first 12 months, followed by 3 months for End Point Assessment preparation and completion.

Modules

• Module 1 - Fundamentals of coaching and the evidence behind the growth in coaching within organisations
• Module 2 - Core skills required for coaching, learning about coaching models and how they might be applied with different clients and in various contexts
• Module 3 - Developing the coach's own style and practice
• Module 4 - Situates coaching within an organisational context and how it might positively benefit organisational culture

Accreditation

On completion of the programme, participants will be awarded a Level 5 Apprenticeship in Coaching and will be able to apply for industry-recognised status with the three top professional coaching bodies:

• The EMC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council)-Global Individual Accreditation
• The Association for Coaching Coach Accreditation
• The International Coach Federation Member

Who Can Apply

• You must be employed on a minimum of a 15 months, full-time contract
• You must be working in a position where you either manage others, appraise others or need communication skills in a people-facing role
• You must be working a minimum of a 30 hour week
• You must be able to commit to practice 50 hours with individual coaching clients

Fees

£5,000 paid through the apprenticeship levy. Please contact us direct if you are interested in the programme and work outside the UK and therefore not eligible for apprenticeship levy funding.

Faculty

Natasha Maw, Programme Director, Leadership Development and Coaching, Bayes Business School

Programme Dates

2025/26 Coaching Level 5 for Professionals:

• May 21st: In-person 09.30 – 17.30
• May 22nd: On-line 09.30 – 1300
• September 8th: In-person 09.30 – 17.30
• September 9th: Hybrid 09.30 – 17.30
• October 14th: On-line 9.30 – 13.00
• November 3rd: On-line 9.30 – 13.00
• January 23rd: In-person 09.30 – 17.30
• February 25th: On-line 9.30 – 13.00
• March 24th: On-line 9.30 – 13.00
• April 27th: On-line 9.30 – 13.00
• May 13th: In-person 09.30 – 17.30
• June-August: End Point Assessment preparation and completion

2025/26 Coaching Level 5 for Healthcare Professionals:

• June 3rd: In-person 09.30 – 17.30
• June 4th: On-line 09.30 – 1300
• September 4th: In-person 09.30 – 17.30
• September 5th: Hybrid 09.30 – 17.30
• October 13th: On-line 9.30 – 13.00
• November 4th: On-line 9.30 – 13.00
• January 21st: In-person 09.30 – 17.30
• February 26th: On-line 9.30 – 13.00
• March 23rd: On-line 9.30 – 13.00
• April 24th: On-line 9.30 – 13.00
• May 12th: In-person 09.30 – 17.30
• July-September: End Point Assessment preparation and completion

Benefits for Individuals

• Increased confidence in skills to:
  • Manage others
  • Develop and motivate others
  • Manage performance
  • Get the best out of teams
  • Understand human behaviour
  • Develop own coaching style
  • Embody and encourage a culture of listening, respect and equality

Benefits for Organisations

• Gain key techniques required to:
  • Build stronger teams
  • Provide support for employees
  • Align to the organisation’s values and objectives
  • Enable a more inclusive culture
  • Improve employee satisfaction scores and staff retention
  • Manage conflict at an early stage before escalating
  • Build leadership capability and talent succession planning

Programme Overview

Some of the biggest challenges for any manager involve building and sustaining a healthy workplace culture, developing teams which hold themselves to account, adapt, and proactively engage in their own learning and development, and performance manage individuals. Coaching skills are widely recognised as a means by which these management requirements can be addressed.

Bayes Business School is now offering two Level 5 Apprenticeships in Coaching: one for professionals from any industry and one for healthcare professionals fostered by our relationships with healthcare organisations through our flagship Executive Master's in Medical Leadership (EMML) Programme.

Who is the Programme For?

The focus of each programme is on professionals who are interested in developing themselves and others. This might be in a leadership or management role, a specialist role in Human Resource Management, Learning and Development, Organisational Development or, in a role that involves formal or informal mentoring and coaching as part of your team/leadership responsibilities.

Each programme is designed for those who want to coach one to-one as part of an organisational coaching network and for others who will use it to enhance their own professional capabilities and management skills.

Focus and Structure

All teaching is evidence-based and designed and delivered by experienced Bayes faculty coaches who have worked in a number of organisational settings at management level. All have extensive experience of teaching and developing top professionals from across a wide range of industries and sectors.

Each of these 15-month programmes is interactive, experiential and draws on the expertise of the participants on the programme, whatever their role and background.

The programmes incorporate a range of learning styles from face-to-face classroom teaching, on-line sessions, supervision groups, group feedback, observed coaching sessions, coaching pairs, self-directed learning and coaching practice sessions with volunteer clients.