The Department of Health and Social Care has just launched the new NHS Leadership and Management Framework, which sets clear expectations for all NHS leaders and managers, including line managers. It’s a national framework describing what excellent leadership and management looks like across every setting, profession and level of responsibility.
The framework provides a shared language for development, progression to support the development of competent, compassionate and inclusive leaders, better staff experiences and, ultimately, improved care for patients.
Organisations are asked to begin embedding the framework and self-assessment tool in development and appraisal conversations.
PCC can help you consider some of the framework fundamentals including how to embed and socialise some of the principles in the three overarching focus areas, personal impact, delivering across health and social care and managing people and resources.
Particularly relevant is our experience in delivering leadership development training and coaching that focusses on:
- collaborative working
- personal productivity and wellbeing
- building teams and communication.
Collaborative working, culture, confidence and communication are integral components of our leadership support, for instance the Confident leader programme. Hundreds of NHS colleagues have attended the seven session programme, delivered by an experienced executive coach and have benefitted from modules on leading change, Myers Briggs (MBTI), collaborative working, the leader as a coach and personal resilience covering confidence, communication and influencing.
The core principles in the new leadership and management code are:
- Be accountable
- Show integrity
- Be curious
- Be inclusive
- Be collaborative
- Be compassionate
Our team has designed and developed courses and programmes that demonstrate a focus on these principles even in the delivery. Our coaches work with a warm, engaging and inclusive style using an action learning approach including our leadership programme for women, Building confident women leaders which encourages confidence and curiosity, teaches about collaboration and trust and ultimately provides a space for leaders to self-reflect and identify areas for development and career progression.
Our courses and programmes are designed to support leaders at all levels as they develop further in terms of compassion, inclusive leadership and competence. We believe that leadership is largely about how we behave, not just what we do and learning to self-assess, self-coach, reflect and share experience is an effective and time efficient way of developing personally and professionally. We can also work with you to co-design team/organisation specific support at any level from line manager to board.
Get in touch to hear more about how we can support you as you embed the framework. Contact helen.ellis@pcc.nhs.uk.
