Nurse leadership at the front line
Run over five days, this programme gives you time and space away from the front line of service delivery to think about yourself and your leadership role.
The programme focuses on your own personal development and links this to the core business of your organisation: the provision of safe, high-quality care. It focuses on how you can confidently lead teams to deliver the QIPP agenda in times of radical change and financial constraint.
Who is it for?
The programme is for nurses who are leading teams responsible for direct service delivery. You are likely to be a charge nurse, ward sister or community team leader. You may be working in the NHS, independent or not-for-profit sector. You could be working anywhere where people are accessing health and social care services.
Benefits of this leadership development programme
Working at the front line it can be difficult for you to find any time to think creatively about how your team can meet the current challenges – still less to think about your own development and career aspirations. This programme will give you that time, it will also give you invaluable resources including:
- insight from your own strengths and development areas as a leader
- practical tools and techniques you can take back to your workplace to help your team focus on delivering safe, high-quality, efficient and effective care
- a network of colleagues from across the UK.
What will you do on this programme?
The programme begins with a focus on you as a leader, your preferred style, your strengths and where you could be even more effective. Our aim is to enable you to exercise choice confidently and to be deliberate in your actions as a leader.
The second area to be explored is leading effective teams. Evidence shows that if the quality and productivity challenges of the QIPP agenda are to be met than frontline teams must be engaged and empowered.
The programme provides the opportunity for you to review the characteristics of effective teams and to explore practical ways for you to motivate, sustain and realise the full potential of your team.
The wider context of your own organisation and the political and economic environment provides the third area for exploration and learning.
You will gain a deeper awareness of how your organisation works and of the inter-relationships between your organisation and the wider systems in which it operates. We explore how your role fits into those systems, and consider some practical ways that you can manage change more effectively.