Leadership & Management Fundamentals for SAS Doctors

CPD Points: 10, This is a 2 day Course

Description

Designed specifically for Specialty Doctors (Staff Grade & Associate Specialist) progressing towards consultanthood through Article 14 of PMETB, this powerful and enabling course takes you through the transmission from largely working in health to taking a leadership responsibility for it. The comprehensive programme is structured to assist you in developing the knowledge, insight and skills necessary to thrive in the very different role of consultant, covering leadership, management, our developing NHS, influencing skills and more, all essential to demonstrate you are ready to step up to the mark.

This course has been developed in response to demand from many career grade doctors, who we have worked with to define a programme that truly delivers in this unique context. Please note there is considerable overlap between this course and Core Skills for the Newer Consultant.

Content

Understanding the Modern NHS

• The evolution of our health service into today’s NHS
• Current healthcare reforms, delivery models and their drivers
• Understanding how the healthcare landscape is evolving
• Developing a proactive view of tomorrow’s health service
• The role of the medical leader in modern healthcare

The Transition to Consultant from an SAS Position

• Understanding the different mindset between SAS doctors & consultants
• Core issues and vital strategies to ensure your transition from delivery to service leadership
• Consultant related time management and planning skills
• Planning to achieve the critical success factors
• Managing yourself through the transition
• Perfecting your learning journey
• Setting clear goals and direction to ensure you arrive at consultant

Developing Clinical & Service Leadership

• Understanding the Medical Leadership Competency Framework
• Appreciating the multifaceted nature of the consultant role
• Defining the key challenges facing doctors of today
• From Service delivery to service development – what are the key changes
• Understanding your personality profile and how it affects leadership style
• Developing awareness of your strengths, weakness, style & impact on others
• Developing proactivity and learning to take the initiative spontaneously
• Learning to stand back – the helicopter approach

Essential Communication & Influencing Skills

• Getting your ideas heard without shouting
• Ensuring service development issues are acted upon up the chain
• Creating effective team working through style flexibility
• Resolving difference and conflict
• Interpersonal influencing strategies from bedside to interview room

Using Clinical Governance to ensure Excellence in Clinical Performance

• Understanding the consultant’s balance of responsibilities
• Engaging the whole team in clinical governance
• Core principles in risk analysis & management
• Managing identified risk - protection of self, team & Trust
• Management of complaints
• Avoiding complaint escalation

Developing Management Excellence

• Engaging in the business of health
• Understanding Trust priorities, their drivers and impacts
• Defining the stakeholders in modern health – stakeholder mapping
• Understanding and rationalising differing priorities
• Working effectively with Primary Care
• Principles of the patient as stakeholder
• Principles of trust and probity - ensuring you are beyond reproach
• Creating and deploying a strong team
• Core principles in team effectiveness
• Getting the best from the resources you have
• Managing complaints when the buck stops with you
• Managing poor clinical performance when the buck stops with you

Benefits and objectives

• Understand how the evolving NHS is changing the role of consultants
• Acquire skills in strategic visioning, service leadership and more
• Learn how to lead Clinical Governance effectively
• Discover the vital components of influencing
• Motivate and inspire productive, high performance teams
• Develop the requisite consultant mindset
• Ensure you the gain the vital insights necessary for consultant success

Course type and teaching methods

The Medicology approach consists of an effective balance of practical skills with solid academic underpinnings. Your course will have an appropriate reliance on slide presentation, backed up with case studies, discussion exercises, group work, individual exercises and examples. We do not utilise role play. The emphasis is on creating a stimulating, fun, interactive environment that helps you enjoy the journey whilst ensuring you gain the necessary practical application of your new found abilities.

Target Audience

Doctors	Nurses	Bus & Admin	Allied Pros
Junior Middle Senior	Junior Middle Senior	Junior Middle Senior	Junior Middle Senior

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