Target Audience/Eligibility Criteria
If you’re a dynamic mid-level clinical or non-clinical leader, determined to challenge the status quo and have wider impact by leading a culture of compassion at a senior level of the NHS, then this programme is for you. You are eligible for this course if you are:
- Working in any healthcare role with either a clinical or non-clinical background who is aspiring to lead large complex projects, departments, services or systems of care that include leading other team leaders
OR
- Already leading teams of service leaders/ complex services and systems of care and have not had any formal leadership development
OR
- A newly appointed clinical lead, or clinical director, who has not had formal leadership development training before and want to improve your leadership practices
And you have a good UK honours degree or an equivalent professional qualification or 3 years + relevant experience leading teams or services.
Course Details
The programme structure is based around the following set of themes which support the development of self, teams, and organisations:
- Ensuring that patients have good quality and safe experiences
- Understanding how I, as a leader, make a difference to improving patient experience
- Enabling others to give their best to improve the patient experience
- Embedding behaviours that improve the patient experience
- Making person-centred coordinated care happen
- Making decisions based upon the best available evidence to improve the patient experience
- Creating value for patients and the public
Course Duration
- 24 months to complete
- Up to 15 hours a week study which you will need to be able to commit to in order to keep up with the demands of the programme. If you are unsure if you can meet this requirement, please talk to your manager before applying
Trainer/Facilitator
NHS Leadership Academy
Date/Time/Venue
Please see the NW Leadership Academy website – www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk for more information regarding application and start dates.
Cost
As part of their commitment to developing outstanding leaders across healthcare, NHS staff are offered a heavily subsidised price for the programme; providing excellent value for money for an award-winning Masters programme.
| 24-month standard programme | 18-month APEL programme | |
| Full programme fee | £16,500 | £10,000 |
| NHS subsidised fee* | £6,000 | £5,000 |
*This fee applies to those who work for organisations providing NHS funded care
Bursary information
The NHS Leadership Academy places diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything that we do. Inclusion is one of our four key strategic aims and therefore must be sown across and throughout our work.
In offering our programmes, we pay attention to inclusion in relation to both content and how our programmes are delivered. We must also ensure that access to our programmes reflects the richness and diversity of our workforce.
To this end, we now have a bursary scheme to support talented applicants who are from groups under-represented across leadership levels and whom, without the bursary, would otherwise miss out on opportunities to access the excellent quality professional leadership programmes that the Academy offer. Specifically, the scheme is available to individuals of the following groups;
- BAME
- People with disabilities
- LGBT+
Booking Process/Additional Information
- For more information please go to the NW Leadership Academy website – leadershipacademy.nhs.uk
- If you have successfully completed the Mary Seacole – Leading Care I programme, you will have credits that exempt you from the first 7 months of this programme. Please note, you will still need to meet the criteria stated above to be eligible for the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson programme as well as having completed the Mary Seacole programme. It is therefore unlikely that you will be able to immediately follow on as you will still need to have the required level of experience in a leadership position
- Expectations of line manager support to staff – Over the two years, participants will complete eight modules of study, attend four residential workshops, attend 11 face to face action learning sets, participate in weekly on-line studies, and scheduled tutor group discussions and tutorials. In addition, they will also be expected to study for a further 10-15 hours per week to supplement the on-going online learning. The programme involves a significant element of application of learning in the workplace. This means that participants will be expected to involve their team or service, workplace colleagues, line manager, and service users and carers in aspects of programme learning activities
- Ongoing support from the line manager to help staff members achieve the programme objectives is crucial to the participant’s success. Without this support in taking a regular and proactive interest in the candidate’s learning, and supporting them in applying their learning in the workplace, the line manager and organisation are unlikely to get a good return on investment
- Over 2/3 of the programme will be delivered online. Learners will be supported by an academic tutor
- There will be three residential behavioural workshops during the course of the programme. All residential workshops will take place in Leeds