Health Professionals
Cancer Coaching for Doctors
Cancer can be a very lonely place. Treatment is tough, side effects can be difficult to tolerate, recovery takes time, and work can feel overwhelming alongside it all.
Working With Cancer® coaching offers one-to-one support to help you navigate work in a way that feels manageable and right for you, with someone who truly understands. Every coach on our team is qualified, has a corporate background and a personal lived experience of cancer, giving them an authentic understanding of the practical realities and emotional challenges of navigating work and cancer.
We provide a confidential, compassionate space to explore logistical, emotional and communication challenges. Our coaching significantly complements and enhances EAP and Occupational Health services.
Watch a short film showing one of our coachees, Mandy Goodman, talking to Barbara Wilson about the benefits she derived from her coaching.
How to access cancer coaching
We have a special arrangement in place for doctors who are in financial need whereby they can apply to have their coaching paid for by the Society for the Assistance of Medical Families. Please contact SAMF on 07894 299755 or via their website www.samf.org.uk for more information.
How it works
You’ll work with a qualified coach who has lived experience of cancer. Sessions are confidential and give you space to talk openly about what matters most to you – professionally, personally and emotionally.
Your Cancer Coaching programme will be tailored to your specific needs. It typically includes:
- A coaching needs assessment
- A series of 1-hour virtual coaching sessions working with you to facilitate the most realistic and practical work-related outcomes.
- Unlimited telephone and email support for you
- Access to WWC’s Best Practice Guides and other resources
- If the coaching is funded by your employer, we provide unlimited support to your manager too
How we support you
Your coach can help you with the practical and emotional challenges of working with cancer, including:
- Workplace adjustments and flexibility
- Planning a return to work
- Managing fatigue, side effects, or anxiety
- Balancing work with treatment and appointments
- Preparing for conversations with your manager or HR
- Exploring different work options if things have changed
Many people tell us Cancer Coaching helps them feel more confident, supported, and able to move forward at work
Working With Cancer Testimonial
I received 6 sessions of coaching with Working With Cancer, and I found it invaluable for helping me psychologically as I got back to work after breast cancer. We set coaching goals together at our first meeting and I was given some optional homework which I found particularly useful.
I have regained my confidence at work, and I find work more enjoyable because I believe I deserve to be there and am a valuable team member. The coaching has also helped me to choose a speciality that fulfils and benefits me as a whole person.
WWC coaching has also given me assurance in my legal rights as someone who has had cancer. Overall I actually feel more confident and satisfied in my work than I did before I had cancer! I am so grateful to my coach, WWC and SAMF for facilitating this.
Dr G, Senior House Officer, South Coast England.
For a longer version of this testimonial click here
We have a special arrangement in place for doctors who are in financial need whereby they can apply to have their coaching paid for by the Society for the Assistance of Medical Families. Please contact SAMF on 07894 299755 or via their website www.samf.org.uk for more information.
Our training, policy and consultancy services can be adapted to the needs of health professionals. If you would like further information, please contact us.