Author: Juliet Smith

Compassionate Leadership Training for Managers and Leaders

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Compassionate leadership is associated with enhanced learning and innovation, lower staff stress, and improved patient care. Drawing on the research of Professor Michael West and other experts, this face-to-face training programme is for health and social care leaders who are looking to cultivate compassion for themselves and the people they lead.

If you want to find out about how this course could help you and your team, you can click here to access a short video sharing first-hand accounts from people who have done the training. There is also a document outlining the programme structure and content here. 

Course format:
This course consists of six weekly sessions, each lasting two hours, along with several optional two-hour online consolidation sessions designed to reinforce your practice and learning. The curriculum integrates mindfulness and compassion practices during each session, fostering a space for reflection and discussion. Participants are also encouraged to engage in mindfulness and compassion exercises at home, aimed at nurturing compassion for themselves and the individuals they lead and collaborate with.

Course dates:
This course runs on Thursdays from 30th January 2025 – 13th March 2025 between 15:00pm – 17:00pm. There is no session on 20th February 2025.

Venue: East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre, Pankhurst Avenue, Brighton
Cost: £200
Suitable for: Anyone in a leadership or management role in a health and social care.

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Evidencing CQC safe and effective staffing through workforce planning

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This online seminar is designed to help you implement effective workforce planning strategies, ensuring safe staffing levels and enabling your service to consistently deliver high-quality, person-centred care. Skills for Care will be running the seminar on 21st November, 18th December, and 14th January between 09:30am – 15:00pm.

What will this seminar cover?

  • What workforce planning is
  • The latest and most-up-to-date information about the factors that can affect an organisations workforce
  • How to workforce plan, using Skills for Care’s practical workforce planning tools and resources
  • How to use data to shape and refine a workforce plan.

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Prioritising person-centred care

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In this week’s newsletter, we’re revisiting a core principle that drives effective adult social care: person-centred care. At its heart, person-centred care is about recognising that each individual has unique needs, preferences, and values, and ensuring that they remain at the centre of their own care journey. Here you will find a few resources and courses to help you create an environment that focuses on embedding person-centred ways of working throughout your service through care planning, personalisation and meaningful engagement.

Please also keep an eye out for our upcoming newsletters that will look into key areas of person-centred practice in more depth including culturally appropriate care and positive risk enablement.

Please click here to access this week’s newsletter →

Navigating Grief With Empathy: Sussex ICS-Wide Webinar for Staff

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This free webinar, hosted by the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Staff Health and Wellbeing Team, aims to help health and social care professionals navigate grief in the workplace by learning practical tools to foster a compassionate approach to supporting colleagues during
times of loss.

The session will take place on Tuesday 3rd December 2024, 12:00pm – 13:00pm via Microsoft Teams and is open to any member of staff within any organisation in the Sussex ICS.

Learning outcomes:
• Understanding of Grief’s multifaceted nature and impact.
• Cultural Sensitivity to support diverse colleagues.
• Empathy and skills to support grieving colleagues.
• Empowerment to take ownership of the healing journey.
• Strategies to foster a compassionate and inclusive workplace.

Click here to find out more and register →

Career Skills Workshop

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‘NHS England South East Region have been working in partnership with Reflect Learning to offer a FREE, online career planning workshops for individuals considering the next step in their career whether it is applying for a short course, an apprenticeship, preparing for promotion or just to develop levels of confidence.’

Learning outcomes:

  • Understand how to create a personal statement for a job or course application.
  • Be able to present the best version of you in your application.
  • Explore interview types, what to expect and how to manage them and secure a successful outcome.
  • Understand how to use the STAR model to provide evidence based answers to interview questions.

Date options: 

Wednesday 13th November 2024, 14:00pm – 15:30pm 
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Wednesday 11th December 2024, 13:00pm – 14:30pm 
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Friday 24th January 2025, 10:00am – 11:30am 
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Tuesday 25th February 2025, 12:00pm – 13:30pm 
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If you have any questions about the workshop please email [email protected].

Neurodiversity in the workplace

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In health and social care, where collaboration, empathy, and understanding are essential for delivering high-quality care, creating an inclusive workplace for all staff is not just a goal—it’s a necessity. Supporting neurodivergent team members is a crucial part of building a more resilient, innovative, and adaptable workforce, where everyone’s unique abilities contribute to collective success. 

In this newsletter, we share courses and practical resources to cultivate a workplace where diverse thinking styles are celebrated, and every individual’s strengths are recognised. 

Please click here to access this week’s newsletter →

The Care Management Show 2024

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Visit ExCeL London on 29th November and 30th November 2024 for two days of networking opportunities, CPD training and insights from industry experts at this free event.

The event programme includes talks on the following topics:

  • Is recruitment and retention improving under Labour?
  • Diversity: how it can help recruitment and boost franchise performance
  • The life-changing power of values-based recruitment
  • The future of medicine management
  • And more…

You can access the full event programme by clicking here.
Click here to find out more and book →

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