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Module Title: Leadership and Management for Healthcare Professionals
Mode of Study:This module can be taken independently or as part of the Masters in Medical Science
Contact Details:01782 672692
Contact email:s.hunter@keele.ac.uk
Fees 2012/13: UK/EU students £460
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The health and social care arena is frequently (and currently) the site of rapid and wide ranging changes.  Participants on this module will spend time learning about effective leadership strategies, reflecting on their own personal qualities and how those match up to the qualities of effective team leaders needed for the NHS.  Organisations supporting participants can expect to see those leadership skills enhanced and developed.  Barriers to effective working across the primary-secondary care interface will be considered.  Ultimately service improvement and redesign may follow as leaders are inspired to take up the challenge of organisational redesign.

This module aims to enhance the leadership potential of health and social care professionals to enable them to effect change or service improvement in the working environment.

Open to all health and social care professionals in active practice or a healthcare leadership or management role.

Indicative module content includes:

  • Introduction to management theory and the role of the manager
  • Interpersonal and organisational communication
  • Public and patient involvement
  • Role of Directors and Chief Executive in a Trust
  • Business planning and budgeting
  • Equal Opportunities in employment.
  • Recruiting and developing teams; group dynamics
  • Motivation, leadership and management styles
  • Personal and organisational development
  • Organisational structures and culture
  • Quality issues and politics
  • Managing change

Teaching

A range of teaching and learning opportunities will be used including key note talks, small group discussions, seminars and independent study. The module will be supported by on-line materials in the KLE.  The module will be supported by on-line materials in the KLE. Students will be expected to consult the literature on management theory as well as leadership strategies and styles. The course work takes as the starting point the NHS Clinical Leadership Competency Framework and will cover organisational structures and culture, personal and organisational development, public and patient involvement and the qualities needed to be an

 

Module session dates

13-17 May 2013

 

Assessment

Students will choose an essay title from three options to demonstrate a critical understanding and application of an aspect of the theoretical basis of leadership. Essay titles will change regularly to reflect the advancing world of healthcare.