Effective Leadership for Professional Practice

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Apply systematic understanding of stigma and bias to demonstrate how proactive measures can be used to resolve inequalities and educate others to promote equity in healthcare.  
• Critically evaluate principles of courage, transparency and the professional duty of candour, acting autonomously to address poor practice and ensure ethical leadership in unpredictable and complex contexts.  
• Critically reflect on their own personal values and beliefs and systematically apply relevant principles and theoretical frameworks to demonstrate how this may impact on their behaviour and practice in healthcare settings. 
• Investigate and critically evaluate opportunities, risks and demands, within healthcare that enable them to maintain their own mental and physical wellbeing and set an example for others, applying an in-depth understanding of their professional standards. 
• Critically select and apply leadership principles and theories to their practice to demonstrate how they will be effective ambassadors, role models and positive influences with a commitment to human rights, equity, diversity and inclusion to improve health outcomes for their communities.
• Critically analyse and evaluate theoretical concepts including compassionate leadership when managing teams to support a culture of learning and cohesion across interprofessional and interagency teams.   

This module is designed to empower you to reflect on your current leadership style, develop leadership skills further and critically evaluate leadership approaches: 

• Facilitate you to reflect critically on your current knowledge, skills, and attitudes to leadership and management, exploring current theory. 
• Contemplate your role in leading practice for the future.  
• Critically identify and appraise current leadership styles, utilising theoretical concepts and research within the political agenda of wider health and social care context of partnership working. 
• Critically analyse your current leadership style and identify areas of development within your practice, whilst critically evaluating leadership approaches to influence policy, service design and delivery.  

Learning and teaching methods include:

• Lectures 
• Workshops 
• Tutorial 
• Guided online learning activities  
• Independent study
• Role play scenarios to support the development of leadership skills that can be transferred into practice. 

Summative assessment

A 15-minute recorded presentation of a reflection of an area for personal development in relation to leadership in your practice area. This should analyse and illustrate your in-depth knowledge, skills and insight of the attributes required for effective leadership, both now and in your future practice.