Leadership Support for Care Home Managers

My Home Life is an international movement for quality of life in care homes, supporting and promoting the sector which is vital to caring for some of our most vulnerable citizens.

This workshop-based leadership programme celebrates positive practice in care settings.

The programme brings together care home managers and deputies who together, supported by professional coaches will further their skills, explore resolving issues that impact on their care service and discuss implementing new changes to improve quality of life and drive forward evidence-based, relationship centred care.

We’ve now had over 1500 care home managers on the programme from throughout the UK.

Who is it for?

The programme works with managers at whatever level they find themselves, to facilitate their personal growth as individuals and as professionals leading change.

Benefits

Bespoke programmes can also be developed for organisations such as the council, care provider and trusts catering to your needs. Please get in touch via the contacts details below for more information.

The programme will focus on

• Increased resilience, reducing risk of burn-out
• The skills and strategies that can drive forward transformational change in care homes
• Improving staff wellbeing and resident/ family quality of life
• Improving relationships with external agencies
• Creating a more calm and relational environment to live and work.

Each group comprises of 18 care home managers/ deputies who, over a 9 month period, are guided and supported by professional coaches and facilitators to advance their skills, engage with evidence-based, relationship-centered practice and resolve the complex everyday issues that impact upon the quality of their service.

The programme begins with a three day introductory workshop followed by a series of monthly half-day action learning meetings. Action learning involves experiential learning through action.

It recognises that individuals learn best when they learn with and from each other, by working on real problems and reflecting on their own experiences.

The sessions are confidential to allow people to feel able to be honest and frank. The learning, with the managers’ permission, will be shared more widely to enable community and statutory services to understand how they can better support care homes deliver quality of life. In this regard, managers become part of a wider movement for social change.

There is no assessment. You will receive a certificate of learning from City, University of London’s My Home Life England Programme.

This course is provided by the School of Health & Psychological Sciences.

All participants are required to be currently working in a care home setting.

English requirements

For those students whose first language is not English the following qualification is also required:

• IELTS: 7.0