Continuing own professional development as a leader

The MILE pathway ‘Assessing Leadership Qualities for Registered Managers’ based on elements from the Leadership Qualities Framework can be used to review and reflect on your performance as a leader, to identify your strengths and any areas where you may wish to develop further. It can also support recruitment and selection to leadership and management roles and inform the design of staff development and leadership learning programmes.

Whether you’re stepping into a new role, exploring system leadership, enhancing clinical expertise, or strengthening organisational development skills, each programme is specifically designed for every step in your professional development. With a strong legacy in leadership and organisational development, we specialise in providing expertise to individuals, leaders and teams by integrating thought leadership, research and practical insights to drive meaningful organisational change. 

This course aims to provide you with the skills and knowledge to lead, organise and motivate teams. This qualification is ideal if you have management responsibilities, but no formal training, and are serious about developing your abilities. It’s particularly suited to practising team leaders seeking to move up to the next level of management, and managers who lead people through organisational change, budget cuts or other pressures.

Flourish offer a Leadership course bundle that collates 21 self-directed online courses for care leaders that can be completed at your own pace via their e-Learning platform. Courses in the bundle include:

• Leadership Styles, Skills, Vision
• Managing Quality: How Benchmarking & Feedback can make a Difference
• The Power of Feedback: Transformative Appraisal Techniques
• And more…

The Roffey Park Leadership Development Programme is aimed at mid-level managers within organisations. It is also useful for individuals working with multiple teams in a matrix or project environment. This is a comprehensive leadership development programme over a three-month period

Developing practical coaching skills for managers-This course is highly interactive and experiential. It will enable you to understand the fundamental principles, purpose, limitations and benefits of coaching as a management tool. Through our design, you will practise coaching skills for managers that will transform how you communicate, interact and grow your team. This approach develops staff, enhances team cohesion and supports productivity.

Roffey Park’s masters in organisational development is an established, internationally recognised master’s qualification in the field of organisational development. The MSc in People and Organisational Development is designed as a practical, experiential OD qualification. The programme is delivered through a mixture of virtually taught components, online materials and self-directed group learning. Associate partner of the University of Sussex who act as validating authority for our MSc in People and Organisational Development.

Our programmes are designed to help everyone in the NHS discover their full leadership potential and achieve the highest standards in health and care

The Healthcare Leadership Model Self-Assessment Tool is designed to help people understand their leadership behaviours and to highlight areas of strength and areas for development.  

The tool encourages people to think about which dimensions of the Healthcare Leadership Model are particularly important for their role and will help to inform future development plans.

The digital tool is in a questionnaire format, it’s interactive, intuitive and free to access. 

This apprenticeship provides learners with high-level leadership and management skills, core competencies and desired behaviours to become more effective leaders. The apprenticeship aims to develop inclusive leaders who are responsible for developing ethical, innovative and supportive cultures with the ability to deliver results, manage complexity and instigate change.

The Leadership Qualities Framework (LQF) focuses on the values and behaviours that provide the foundations for effective leadership in social care.

During the pandemic we hosted a series of webinars to support leaders and managers from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. 

ESCC offer a programme of ‘Well-Led’ sessions aimed at health and social care managers and supervisors in East Sussex. Please see the courses that are available listed below:

Well-Led Programme for Provider Services: Assessing Competence in the Workplace
‘This session covers different ways of assessing competence and how to record this.’
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Well-Led Programme for Provider Services: Coaching Skills
‘We look at the benefits of coaching and how it can be used to support personal development.’
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Well-Led Programme for Provider Services: Induction, supervision and appraisal
‘This session will help you develop your skills and confidence as an effective supervisor.’
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Well-Led Programme for Provider Services: Performance Management
‘Based on the Skills for Care People Performance Management toolkit this session will explore all aspects of effective performance management.’
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Well-Led Programme for Provider Services: Personal Qualities in Leadership
‘This course aims to help you understand the personal qualities that are important for effective leadership.’
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Well-Led Programme for Provider Services: Positive Workplace Culture
‘This session explores the factors that contribute to a positive workplace culture and how to support staff wellbeing and resilience.’
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Well-Led Programme for Provider Services: Values Based Recruitment
‘This session looks at a values-based approach to recruitment and how this differs from traditional interview questions.’
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Well-Led Programme for Provider Services: Working with Conflict
‘This course provides an overview of conflict in the workplace and different ways to respond effectively.’
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