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Clinical Coach Congress

Wednesday 5th July 2023

Early Bird pricing is available until Friday 12th May 2023

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What is Clinical Coach Congress?

Clinical Coach Congress is a unique conference dedicated purely to supporting clinical coaches and those involved in veterinary nurse training.

Clinical Coach Congress is recognised by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) as clinical coach standardisation, meaning it is, not only, the ideal opportunity to learn from fellow clinical coaches and expert industry speakers, but it will also provide up to 7 hours of CPD.

Formerly known as the "Training Practice (TP) Congress".

Who should attend?

Clinical coaches and those involved in veterinary nurse training. Whether you are a new or aspiring clinical coach, or have been one for many years, this congress is for you! The congress will be particularly useful if you are:

  • New to your role and looking for some guidance
  • Interested in learning more about coaching and mentoring
  • Aiming to progress within your role
  • Interested in keeping up-to-date with everything happening in the industry

Why attend?

  • Listen to lectures from a range of speakers who will be sharing their experiences and knowledge
  • Q&A sessions mean your questions will be answered by the speakers themselves
  • Gain practical takeaways on a variety of topics that you can implement in your practice
  • Earn 7 hours of evidenced CPD
  • Gain online access to recordings of all the lectures and lectures from previous congresses up until the next event
Download the agenda (PDF)

Online Registration, Exhibition and Lounges

Chair's Welcome

Barbara Drysdale, VetSkill 

Establishing a Successful Mentoring Relationship

Alice Hewitt BVetMed(Hons) MA PGCertVetEd FHEA MRCVS, Alice Hewitt Coaching

Being a clinical coach is about more than just teaching. As a clinical coach, you have a unique and powerful opportunity to help someone to develop both personally and professionally; to use your wisdom, knowledge and experience to guide and support them.

The best way you can do this is by creating a strong and successful mentoring relationship with your student.

In this session, we’ll discuss how to establish a successful mentoring relationship, how to set boundaries with your student, how to deal with challenges and how to give effective feedback to keep you and your student on track.

A Crash Course in Confidence - For You and Your Student

Dr Libby Kemkaran-Thompson MA VETMB MRCVS, Kemkaran Consulting Ltd

Move from command and control management to trust and inspire leadership. Come and discover how you communicate with other people and how to ooze charisma and charm to all 4 of the Big Cat Brains types.

When you know how and where to use your superpowers, you live in your zone of genius and you grow in confidence day by day. This behavioural psychology lecture will teach you how to ‘tame your team’ and help you ‘find your flow’ to keep your practice running at peak performance.

Bring your best cognitive diversity and let’s go!

Live Q&A Panel

Present questions (anonymously if desired) to the speakers.

Morning Break, Online Exhibition and Lounges

Updates to the VN Qualifiacation and a Masterclass for the New ePortfolio

Jennifer Scrimshaw RVN, The College of Animal Welfare

Jenn will provide a brief synopsis of important updates and all you need to know in a nutshell about the new VN qualification on offer from CAW.

This will be followed by a masterclass presentation on the ePortfolio, including recent updates you need to be aware of and how best to navigate this area to help your student reach their fullest potential.

This presentation will be followed by live Q&A break out rooms with multiple IQAs from the college, on hand to answer any specific questions you have it on either the course itself or the ePortfolio.

Live Q&A Panel Breakout Rooms

Join the CAW IQA team across multiple breakout rooms, to answer your specific questions around the VN qualification and the ePortfolio.

Lunch Break, Online Exhibition and Lounges

How to Support Your Student with their Revision - Tips and Tricks to Help Your Student Succeed

Meg Richards FdSc RVN Canine Hydrotherapist

Does your student struggle with their revision? Do they dread their exams? This presentation will help you to guide your student through their exam periods, giving you revision tips and tricks to pass on. It will offer you creative revision ideas, games and much more to help them to retain information.

This talk aims to go a long way to helping you to help your student feel more prepared and confident heading into their exams and will help you to better support them along the way.

Preparing Students for OSCEs – The Mental Game

Catherine Rolfe Grad Dip VN RVN FHEA

Why is it that you can have two students each equally competent in practice, and one passes their OSCEs and the other fails and perhaps goes on to fail again?

Beyond the practical OSCE preparation that we help our students with is what is sometimes referred to as the mental game, which as we’ll explore in this talk, underpins everything.

In this presentation, we’ll look at some of the science behind how elements such as sleep, mindset, awareness, language and visualisation impact practical performance and how this knowledge can be used to help your students to OSCE success and beyond.

Live Q&A Panel

Present questions (anonymously if desired) to the speakers.

Chair's Close

Barbara Drysdale, VetSkill 

Online Exhibition and Lounges

Please note this programme is subject to change.

Alice HewittAlice Hewitt BVetMed(Hons) MA PGCertVetEd FHEA MRCVS
Alice Hewitt Coaching

After graduating from the RVC in 2004, Alice worked predominantly in first opinion small animal practice; combining clinical practice with coaching, mentoring and teaching.

Alice is unashamedly a people person and loves helping people to grow and develop, to unlock their potential and to reach new heights. She is a firm believer in the importance of ‘soft skills’ and personal and career development and has developed and delivered training and coaching around these throughout her career, including delivering mentor training for MarsVH and feedback training for VCA.

Alice has been coaching since 2019 and launched her coaching business in 2022.

Barbara DrysdaleBarbara Drysdale
VetSkill

Barbara started her career in Veterinary Nursing in mixed practice, going on to work in referral practice and the charity sector before a move into the world of education. She has taught in both FE and HE and was involved in the development of the UK’s first veterinary nursing degree programme. Barbara remained in education for many years.

After a break from the profession, she returned to work for VetSkill; an Awarding Organisation that offers quality qualifications and end point assessment.

Her passions are her horses, dog, cats and chickens! She enjoys keeping fit and healthy, use the gym, and runs regularly. She has also been a foster carer for 11 years and is passionate about injustices in our social system.

Barbara still does the odd shift as a veterinary nurse to keep up to date with the development of the profession.

Catherine RolfeCatherine Rolfe Grad Dip VN RVN FHEA

Catherine Rolfe is a Registered Veterinary Nurse who completed her Graduate Diploma in Professional and Clinical Veterinary Nursing at the RVC and gained Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy status whilst working at Cambridge University. Her clinical career saw her work in both general and referral practice and she has worked with in both veterinary surgeon and veterinary nursing education. Catherine has been published on numerous occasions in peer-reviewed journal The Veterinary Nurse and has presented at international veterinary education conferences. Her most recent role in the veterinary industry was as Internal Quality Assurer at the Dick White Academy. Catherine is passionate about helping people connect with their fullest potential. 

Dr Libby Kemkaran-Thompson MA VETMB MRCVS
Kemkaran Consulting Ltd

International Coach and TEDx Speaker, Libby Kemkaran has helped 1000's of clients around the world massively increase their success in business.  She has helped her clients grow their worth into multi-million-pound companies and build their businesses from the ground up.

Director of Kemkaran Consulting Ltd and Advisory Director to 2 other companies, Libby is a sought-after consultant to some of the most accomplished companies and organisations in the world, such as Merck Pharmaceutical and the NHS.

Libby spent 5 years working as a small animal clinician before a car crash left her unable to work as a vet.  She then combined her Behaviour degree from Cambridge with her Business Consultancy skills from her time in the city, to create the ground breaking TAME® Your Brain programme.

She is creator of the award winning Tame Your Brain® methodology and coaches CEOs and individual solo entrepreneurs around the globe.

Jennifer Scrimshaw

Jennifer Scrimshaw RVN
The College of Animal Welfare

Jennifer qualified as an RVN in 2011 and after working in a Small Animal Practice for 12 years, joined the College of Animal Welfare in 2017.

Jennifer is a qualified IQA and responsible for moderating both the NPL and ePortfolio, as well as running ePortfolio support sessions and carrying out Training Practice Audits. She enjoys the variety of the role, in particular seeing students and clinical coaches/supervisors during practice visits.

Jennifer has a six-year-old boy, who keeps her very busy in her spare time and they love the outdoors.

Meg Richards

Meg Richards FdSc RVN Canine Hydrotherapist

Meg is an RVN and Canine Hydrotherapist working in a busy referral practice in Cornwall.

She is passionate about inpatient care, rehabilitation and emergency and critical care, but also about aiding student learning and revision.

Meg loves imparting knowledge and has found a real love for lecturing and creating revision content, including webinars and revision packs, on her Instagram platform @megthervn.

When not working, you will find Meg exploring the Cornish coastline with her spaniel, Maisie.

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2022 Exhibitors:

Leucillin Animal Skincare LogoLeucillin

Leucillin is a straight to use, user friendly solution for safe disinfection, antimicrobial control and patient aftercare with no warnings or constrains.

  • Leucillin is a high efficacy HOCl based biocide for topical pathogen reduction
  • Proven 99.99999% antimicrobial reduction against pathogens including: Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Candida albicans and SARS-COV-2
  • Skin safe, no alcohol, antibiotics, steroids or harmful chemicals detrimental to tissue
  • Safe for all mammals, birds and reptiles
  • Now HSE Approved for human use
  • Approved by the Organic Soil Association for Organic Livestock Systems
  • Available in a range of sizes for large animal and domestic pet use
  • Free point of sale and literature

Linnaeus LogoLinnaeus

Linnaeus is one of the most highly respected veterinary groups in the UK and Ireland, offering specialist referral services as well as primary care across its family of practices. Together, Linnaeus are committed to excellence and delivering outstanding quality care to patients.

The future of veterinary medicine is at the heart of everything they do, and this commitment is demonstrated through investments in their veterinary teams, facilities, equipment, and continual professional development of its clinical and non-clinical Associates.

Through its flexible and supportive culture, Linnaeus teams can focus on delivering outstanding quality care and contributing toward their Purpose: A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

CAW LogoThe College of Animal Welfare

The College of Animal Welfare is one of the largest providers of veterinary nurse training in the UK, with centres in Cambridgeshire, North London, Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Scotland. We strongly believe that education and training is the key to raising standards of animal welfare. To this end, we strive to create new and accessible opportunities for learning, and encourage employers and those working with animals to undertake appropriate levels of training and continue with lifelong learning and education.

VetskillVetSkill

VetSkill is an Ofqual and CCEA approved awarding Organisation and professional regulatory body. Our aim is to empower learners to recognise and achieve their full potential through the provision of inspirational qualifications. VetSkill have a growing portfolio of qualifications available for delivery by VetSkill approved Centres, and welcome enquiries from those who are interested in delivery our qualifications and supporting our mission.

Vets4PetsVets4Pets

We put pets first: beyond all else, we’re committed to animal health and welfare. The most powerful partnerships we have are with pets and their owners. This is at the heart of what we do and always will be.

Vets4Pets is proud to be one of the largest veterinary groups in the UK with a national network of practices run by partners who enjoy clinical freedom and autonomy to do things their way for the good of their patients, clients, and team.

With Vets4Pets, you’ll get all the support you need, when you need it. That means state-of-the-art facilities, high quality CPD and support to gain further qualifications. We’ve made it simpler and easier for you to help patients and clients live happier, healthier lives together. We want to do the same for you so talk to us about how we can support you to achieve your work/life balance.

Clinical Coach Congress
Full Price
£175
Early Bird
£125
Saving
£60

Early Bird pricing is available until Friday 12th May 2023. All prices are listed without VAT and savings including VAT.

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Why exhibit with us?

  • Limited exhibitor numbers - Unlike larger congresses where hundreds of exhibitors often mean that visitors will not remember everyone, exhibition space for Clinical Coach Congress is strictly limited. As such you will get the opportunity to engage with all of the delegates attending our congresses personally.
  • Make meaningful business connections – Network with those that influence decision making in veterinary practice face-to-face and make relevant industry contacts.
  • Cost effective – with exhibitor packages starting from just £250+VAT, our prices offer value for money and fall considerably below that of larger events within the industry.

Interested in exhibiting at Clinical Coach Congress 2021?

Download a booking form or call Claire Gregory, Short Course and Events Administrator, on 01480 422060.