Welcome
Hello and a warm welcome to the first Leadership Academy dispatch for the new financial year 2021/22.
I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the new System Leadership Development Senior Manager.
A key priority for us this year will be supporting the implementation of the new Integrated Care Systems (ICS) and the new leadership challenges that this brings. From our conversations with leaders in the South East region, and from other emerging research literature, we continue to reflect on what has changed during the Covid pandemic.
We know that different leadership approaches surfaced as we responded to the pandemic, including more integrated and distributed leadership models, and we have all been inspired by the incredible leadership of the NHS Covid vaccination programme. We have much to build on and we look forward to continuing to support leaders to meet the dual challenges of recovery for both staff and services over the coming year.
The Leadership Academy team were redeployed for much of last year and focused efforts on many of the leadership health, wellbeing and resilience needs that were emerging through the pandemic. Alongside this we delivered core elements of the programme for part of the year
We have come back together in April and are busy reviewing priorities, planning, and designing our core programme offers. We want to model an inclusive systems approach to our programme development this year, and to work more closely than ever with strategic partners, our faculty and organisations within the Integrated Care Systems, bringing together the sometimes fragmented approaches and funding into a coherent strategy, with a greater collective understanding of what is available in the ICS already, and a focus on the gaps that need to be addressed as a system.
Please find below our immediate programme offers. We hope to see familiar faces returning and see many new leaders on these programmes.
Beth Hill
System Leadership Development Senior Manager
Regional Offers
More about Mental Health and Wellbeing
Thriving, Hiving or Surviving post Covid, 12th May, 12:30 – 13:15
This session offers the opportunity to consider some of the demands that Covid-19 has placed upon people and explore how individuals and managers can recognise their own levels of functionality, what individuals can do to protect and enhance their own psychological wellbeing and what managers and leaders can do to enhance the psychological safety of their teams.
Leadership Espresso Series: Supporting Our Leaders
Leadership Espresso: Looking after yourself and your mental health, 13th May, 10:00 – 11:30
This short espresso session will be an opportunity to learn about mental health & wellbeing, understand stigmas of mental health and explore the impact of remote working on your wellbeing and energy sources. You will also have the opportunity to discuss & learn with others in small break out groups and share any tactics & tips to help for your mental energy and recovery whilst working remotely.
Leadership Espresso: Conversations to Build Resilience, 21st May, 9:30 – 11:00
This 90-minute leadership espresso is for anyone who wants to know how to manage sensitive conversations to support their teams and colleagues when working under pressure.
Leadership Espresso: Supporting Your People When Noticing Burnout, 27th May, 9:30 – 11:00
This 90-minute leadership espresso is for staff who are concerned that their teams are working under extreme pressure and who want to know how to better understand their people in such circumstances and what they can do to support them effectively.
Leadership Espresso: Supporting Your People to Return to Work, 28th May, 9:30 – 11:00
This session is for team managers and leaders who want to support their staff returning to work. It will explore factors that influence an individual’s ability to return to work, help identify aspects of the job that can be adjusted and how to prepare and support both the individual and the team during the return to work process.
Leadership Espresso: Making Every Conversation Count, 8th June, 10:00 – 11:30
This 90-minute leadership espresso session has been developed to support Line Managers to have meaningful coaching style conversations with their teams at times when people experience heightened levels of stress, pressure and ambiguity. This session will explore how a coaching approach to managing others leads to long-term development and more effective support.
1:1 Support for Leaders
Safe Space Conversation Sessions for Senior Clinical Leaders
This offer will provide senior clinical leaders time out to talk, to gain support, learning and development through a crucial period of heightened demand on individuals and the healthcare services around them. Primarily aimed at executive and deputy Medical and Nursing directors, Heads of Midwifery and AHPs (and their deputies), Senior Clinical Leaders of teams or services, and clinical divisional directors or equivalent.
Bitesize Coaching – book your 45-minute session now.
An opportunity for those working on the frontline and/or responsible for teams who are currently working under pressure to work with an experienced coach. This one-off session can help you process experiences, develop coping skills or explore strategies to navigate challenging circumstances.
Other offers
LAST CHANCE: The Power of Coaching Techniques Programme – an introduction to coaching and skills to support Primary Care Network Development, May/July
The Power of Coaching Techniques programme will reflect on the rapid changes that COVID has brought about to the way we work. This programme will allow primary care staff to understand how coaching approaches can help them support their local Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and will equip them with tools and skills to use these approaches effectively.
Leadership Restoration Group sessions, 25th May, 14:00 – 16:00
Designed to offer safe spaces for leaders to talk openly about their experiences, feelings and concerns, and find mutual support from colleagues. The restoration group for leaders aims to support staff to find a sense of balance in their lives. Reducing the build-up of stress and increasing a sense of wellbeing through mutually nourishing conversations. The group offers an opportunity to ‘let go’ and find a sense of ease and calm in an otherwise frantic world.
Primary Care – Living Well Workshop: Growing Collective Wellbeing
This 90-minute virtual workshop will break down the definition of well-being, arming each delegate with the essential information required to understand and then proactively and positively build well-being habits and systems in light of the current pandemic and to help us meet the ambitions of the Long-Term Plan and People Plan.
National and Partner Offers
New region-based clinical leadership fellowship launched
Applications are invited for a new and exciting fellowship scheme for aspiring clinical leaders. Clinicians will be based in NHS regional teams across England and will lead key projects that contribute to regional and national priorities, gaining essential leadership and strategic skills. The scheme is open to doctors in training, dentists, pharmacists, allied health professionals, nurses, midwives, and healthcare scientists that hold full registration with the relevant professional body.
Integrated Care Systems – what’s the deal for me and my patients? A series of webinars for Clinical Directors to explore their role in the ever changing landscape of PCNs and ICS
With the ongoing pressure to deliver the Covid vaccination programme, support NHS Recovery post pandemic, meet the needs of your PCN, and ensure that you and your population have a voice at ICS level it can be difficult to know what to focus on first. This series of webinars, co-designed by Tricordant, and London Leadership and Lifelong Learning Team with input from London based Clinical Directors will be delivered by Dr Roger Greene and Alistair Mitchell Baker. For further information about these sessions please contact the NHSI London Leadership & Lifelong Learning Team via Shewranul Khan at the following email: [email protected]
#ProjectM
Shaped by on-going feedback and conversations had with managers throughout the NHS – #ProjectM is a suite of resources, tools and guides to help our NHS managers lead through COVID-19 and beyond. A community of practice will provide a safe, collaborative space for colleagues to get peer-to-peer support, alongside our award-winning health and wellbeing offers.
#ProjectM Mentorship
In the spirit of support and collaboration #ProjectM mentorship has launched. This is mentorship but not as you know it! This means getting involved is quick and easy and doesn’t require registration. #ProjectM mentorship is based on harnessing social media (starting with Twitter) to enable the #ProjectM community to self-organise. This means you can share your skills and experience by letting the #ProjectM community know you are happy to be a mentor, or you would like to be mentored by adding a Twibbon to your Twitter profile picture.
Executive Suite Offers
Developed to support executive leaders to meet the challenges of leadership over the coming years, these offers are provided to open the space for co-development of leadership and lifelong learning with executive leaders. Current opportunities include:
- Video series on Creating good speaking up cultures
- Mentoring from the Centre for Army Leadership
- One-to-one psychological support
- Action Learning Sets – either national or regionally tailored to suit your system challenges
Contact
For Regional Offers: [email protected]
For National and Partner Offers – Please follow the link in the offer you are interested in and contact organisers directly