Course description
Application of Leadership and Management
In the light of the current healthcare agenda, this module is designed for students new to leadership roles to facilitate their development as future leaders. This module invites you to critically reflect on their existing knowledge and skills, debate alternative approaches to leadership and evaluate future learning needs.
The module aims to:
- Facilitate you to reflect critically on your current knowledge, skills and attitudes to leadership, exploring current theory and applying to your own development needs
- Contemplate your role in leading practice for the future.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Entry requirements
- Ability to study at level 7
- Professional registration as a healthcare professional:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Working in health and social care.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Credits: 15
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, youwill be able to:
- Reflect upon and critique your own leadership skills and qualities
- Critically appraise current thinking on how to lead and motivate a team to achieve a responsive and strategic service
- Critically question the role of the current healthcare agenda in the delivery of effective leadership within a specific area of practice.
Training Course Content
Indicative content includes:
- Tools for self analysis
- Leadership and management theory
- Effective team working
- Negotiation and influencing skills
- Understanding organisational culture and its impact on care delivery
- Resilience
- Emotional intelligence
- Current healthcare policy.
Course delivery details
For the 2022/23 curriculum, our CPD moduleswill be delivered usinghybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery, as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. A couple of modules will be delivered solely online, however for most modules face to face contact time and attendance at the university will be required.
Learning and teaching methods include:
- Lectures
- Discussion
- E-learning
- Self directed learning
- Reflection
- Alternative visit.