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Professional Leadership – The Mary Seacole Programme

Target Audience/Eligibility Criteria

The Mary Seacole programme is for first time leaders in healthcare, or those aspiring to their first formal leadership role. It’s for you if you’re:. It’s for you if you are in a ‘formal’ position of leadership with responsibilities for people and services, and able to relate what you learn to your workplace.

You must be able to commit to a minimum of 5 hours of study per week.

All colleagues from underrepresented groups are particularly encourages to consider the leadership development offers.

Why should I join the programme?

  • The Mary Seacole programme is grounded in reality and results in real workplace application
  • It provides balance between learning and theory and putting it into practice
  • It empowers people in their first formal leadership position to turn their success into consistent team success and to champion compassionate patient care

Key Benefits

Individual Benefits:

  • Encouragement to look within you for the right leadership style, rather than comparing yourself to others
  • Increased awareness of you abilities, enabling you to more clearly identify which styles fit your strengths, your emotional intelligence and how best to use it, how your behaviours might impact on others
  • The authority, capacity and motivation to implement change
  • The tools to transform emotion into an asset
  • Greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence, enabling you to work with others more effectively
  • Leads to NHS Leadership Academy Award in Healthcare Leadership

Organistional Benefits:

  • Better succession planning, due to having an increased number of capable leaders in the pipeline
  • A wider pool of professional skills to draw on within the organisation
  • Structured, evidence-based perspectives on decision-making which have a positive impact
  • People with greater positive impact on organisational culture
  • Leaders who have powerful strategies to achieve change
  • A healthier degree of challenge throughout the organisation rather than just at a senior level

Learning is accessed through:

  • The NHS Leadership Academy’s virtual campus, which includes programme films, interactive content, discussion forums and online resources
  • Three one day skills workshops working with expert facilitators currently delivered virtually

The programme is delivered in 12 units, each taking between five and ten hours of online study time:

  • Units 1-8 cover leadership fundamentals and build on each other as the programme progresses
  • Units 9-12 are flexible and can be taken at any point in the programme. These relate to the core management skills of:
    • Fundamentals of Finance
    • Recruitment and selection
    • Fundamentals of HR
    • Appraisals and annual review

Assessment

Assessment is based on:

  • Online activity and contributing to the online discussion forums throughout the programme
  • Attendance to all three workshops
  • Submission of a 2,000-word assignment demonstrating how you’ve developed and applied your leadership

Successful completion will lead to an NHS Leadership Academy Award in Healthcare Leadership

Course Duration

The Mary Seacole programme is six months long with 100 hours of online study, plus three behavioral workshops delivered virtually.

Date/Time/Venue

Please contact us for start dates.  All sessions will be running at the MFT

Cost

The programme costs £995 per person for those providing NHS-funded care. Payable in full prior to the start of the programme.

Booking Process/Additional Information

  • Further information regarding thsi programme and how to register please follow this link – Mary Seacole programme – Leadership Academy
  • If you’re not eligible for The Mary Seacole programme, the NHS Leadership Academy runs a range of alternative programmes for colleagues at every level. If you’re aspiring to or are new (in post for less than two years) to a leadership role, we’d recommend you look at the Edward Jenner programme
  • If you would like to talk about your development needs, please email seacoleprogramme@leadershipacademy.nhs.uk