One-to-One NHS Consultant Interview Coaching

One-to-one coaching is designed for doctors preparing for NHS consultant interviews who want individual practice and feedback focused on their own experience and interview performance.

It can be particularly useful when you have a specific consultant interview approaching, want to concentrate on particular areas or have something about your application or interview that you would like to work through individually.

Each one-to-one consultant interview coaching session lasts 90 minutes and is delivered live online via Zoom.

Yes. If you have a specific interview approaching, your coaching can be tailored to the post, your own experience and the requirements set out in the job description and person specification.

This allows the session to concentrate on the areas that are particularly relevant to your forthcoming interview rather than relying solely on generic consultant interview questions.

If you are preparing for a particular post, you can send your CV or application form together with the job description and person specification.

If there are particular questions, presentations or areas that concern you, it is also helpful to let us know so that your coach can take these into account when planning the session.

Your coach can review your CV or application as part of preparing for the coaching session. This helps them understand your experience, identify areas that may attract questions and select relevant areas to explore with you.

The purpose is to inform your interview coaching rather than provide a separate CV-writing or application-writing service.

Your session can include a realistic timed mock consultant interview followed by detailed feedback and further coaching.

Alternatively, if you would benefit more from concentrating on particular areas or questions, the session can be structured around focused interview practice rather than one continuous mock interview.

The session can cover your CV and achievements, motivation, leadership and management, team working, clinical governance, patient safety, quality improvement, difficult scenarios, current NHS issues, service development and your vision for the role.

The exact content is determined by your individual needs and, where relevant, the consultant post you are applying for.

Yes. If your consultant interview includes a presentation, you can use part of your coaching session to review and practise it.

Your coach can help you consider its structure, content and delivery, whether it answers the brief you have been given and how you are likely to handle questions arising from it.

No. We do not believe that memorising model answers is the best way to prepare for a consultant interview.

Instead, we help you understand what the panel is testing, identify relevant evidence from your own career and develop a clear structure for communicating it.

This allows your answers to remain authentic and makes it easier to adapt when the panel changes the wording of a question or asks you to go further.

Yes. Consultant panels frequently probe an answer, challenge an assumption or ask what you would do if circumstances changed.

Your coach can use follow-up questions in the same way, helping you practise thinking beyond your prepared opening answer and demonstrating the reasoning behind your response.

A previous unsuccessful interview can provide useful information about where your preparation needs to focus.

If you received feedback from the panel, bring it to your coaching session. Your coach can help you interpret it, identify what may need to change and practise alternative approaches.

You can use the session to prepare for areas of your career or application that you think the panel may explore.

The aim is not to disguise difficult areas. It is to help you discuss them clearly and appropriately, provide relevant context and demonstrate reflection where this is important.

There is no single ideal interval because it depends on how much preparation you have already done and what you want to achieve from the session.

Booking with enough time to act on the feedback can be useful, particularly if the session identifies areas that need further preparation. A session closer to the interview can also be valuable for focused practice and refinement.

Yes. You can book more than one session if you would benefit from additional individual preparation.

For example, an earlier session might identify areas to develop, while a later session can test how your answers and interview performance have progressed.

A 10% discount is available when you book two one-to-one coaching sessions.

ISC Medical works with experienced consultant interview coaches who understand the expectations of senior medical interviews.

If you have a preference for a particular trainer, contact us with the dates you are considering and we can advise you about availability.

You do not need to have a confirmed interview to book a session.

If you are preparing in advance, the coaching can focus on your overall interview technique, the evidence from your career that you are likely to draw on and the areas you want to strengthen before you begin interviewing for consultant posts.