Working as a Coach or Mentor
Ready to inspire and empower others in a role that fits around your family? Our interactive Coaching and Mentoring training will give you the tools, practice and confidence to start your coaching journey.
Whether you’re looking to enhance your current role or explore a new career, this course provides a solid foundation to help you succeed.
You’ll complete around 15-20 hours of learning each week, supported by weekly live group webinars with your Successful Mums Trainer and a community of like-minded mums.
Start your journey to becoming a certified coach and discover how your skills, empathy and experience can make a real difference.
Online flexible course, with real human connection
100% free
Ten week, term-time duration
Fits in around busy mum life
Nationally accredited with a qualification at the end
Friendly weekly webinars delivered by a trainer, live with no ai or pre-recordings
One-to-one support available
Bespoke material for parents
Build a support network and meet other mums returning to work
What We’ll Cover:
- The difference between coaching and mentoring
- How to use coaching models like GROW
- Active listening and powerful questioning
- Planning and delivering engaging sessions
- Setting goals and reviewing progress
- Understanding trainer responsibilities
- Giving effective feedback
- Planning and delivering your own coaching session
- Supported feedback and ideas how to gain clients
Studying for success on this course
- 10 week course delivered term time
- 2 hour weekly webinar during term time. Starting at 10am on a set regular day of the week, but never on a Friday. Your specific day will be confirmed when you sign up.
- 15-20 hours of self-guided study per week, with weekly assignments and weekly challenges
- 1 dedicated trainer that will support you all the way through your course and beyond
- 1 dedicated assessor for that extra touch
- You’ll need two guinea pigs, someone to practise your new found coaching skills on and someone else to mentor too.
Possible career pathways
There are many hidden roles in education and care where a qualification in coaching and mentoring will build your skills, confidence and help your application stand out.
These could be – but are not limited to: Career Coach, Work Experience Officer, Attendance Officer, Behaviour Mentor, Student Achievement Mentor, SEND Employment Coach, SEND Interview Mentor.
Best of all, when you sign up to a course with Successful Mums you’re supported in your job search and skills.
“Successful Mums gave me the confidence, knowledge, and skills to move forward towards achieving my goals; motivation to take action; and momentum and support to keep going when it got tough. It helped me build a future that feels both achievable and sustainable.”
Justine
Equipment for success
To study, you’ll need a laptop or computer. Your webinar will take place on Zoom and your learning and assignments will use the educational platform “Equal”. This doesn’t work well on a phone or an iPad, so a laptop or computer is best.
If you receive benefits and are registered with a Work Coach at a Job Centre, they’ll be able to put in a request to help with your access to a laptop. It’s best to do this as soon as possible before you start your course.
You’ll need access to Zoom – a free account is absolutely fine. All you need is an email address to get started.
Additional support needs
There is space on your application to tell us about any additional support you may need. We’re happy to support learners and there are many things we can do to achieve this. It will depend on each learner’s circumstances and we would prefer to discuss with you as part of your onboarding process.
Successful outcomes
When you complete this course you will gain a recognised qualification for your CV: Level 3 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring.
Pre-requisites
This is not a repeat of school and there are no set requirements. The nature of what we do for parents means it may have been some time since you did any learning, or you may think you don’t have any qualifications at all.
We run a very basic appraisal with you, designed to help us know which of our courses will work the best for you. It may be best for you to do more than one course with us to help you on your career path. And for some of our courses that help you gain level 3 qualifications, it may be better for you to complete one of our level 2 qualifications first.
We offer several progression pathways to help you get to where you want to be. We’ve helped over 10,000 mums back to work or start a business and we can help you too.
“The course instructors were exceptional — warm, approachable, knowledgeable, and authentically human… and genuinely invested in helping you succeed.”
Jae
