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Leadership in Healthcare City Health

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Delivery of this module will be online due to government-issued guidelines during the Covid-19 pandemic and may be made available face-to-face subject to Public Health England recommendations. Please submit your application and, once reviewed by the module leader, you will receive more specific information about the online delivery of your module and assessments.

Why choose this course?

This one day course is for healthcare practitioners that are both informal leaders, people without explicitly assigned leadership roles, and people who are new to people management.

Course overview

There is increasing recognition that the success of a healthcare organisation is not dependent on one heroic leader, but the leadership efforts of the whole team.  This one day course is for both informal leaders, people without explicitly assigned leadership roles, and people who are new to people management. Course content includes:

  • Exploring the extent of the leadership phenomenon in healthcare
  • Well-led organisations and organisational effectiveness
  • Different views on what is leadership and management
  • Leadership and power
  • Ethical leadership
  • Theories of what makes a successful leader
  • Shared leadership

Course outcomes

Course outcomes

At the end of the course it is expected that you will recognise your leadership role and the role of others, and be able to draw on a range of techniques to develop yourself as a leader.

Assessment

Assessment

This will be an interactive assessment without a formal assessment component.

Module leaders

  • Dr Caroline McGraw

    Caroline is a lecturer specialising in district nursing who joined City University London in May 2013.

    Caroline initially qualified as an adult general nurse in 1991. She has been working in district nursing practice for over 15 years and completed her Primary Healthcare Nursing PGDip (District Nurse) with Specialist ...