Leadership Training

By School Nurses, For School Nurses, To Lead School Nursing.

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High quality leadership has never been more important. This training has been developed in response to wide consultation and robust evaluation and is open to any qualified school nurse (or aspiring staff nurse who is working in a school nurse team) who is enthusiastic about leadership and change.

This leadership training is designed exclusively for SCPHN School Nurses, equipping them with the personal and collective leadership skills to lead, advocate and influence within the unique landscape of public health School Nursing. Developed and delivered by experienced SCPHN School Nurses and/or academics, it focuses on the real-world challenges and opportunities of the profession. Unlike broader leadership programmes, this course ensures participants gain relevant, practical strategies to drive meaningful change in their roles, services, and communities.

This is a comprehensive leadership course, aligned to the 9 dimensions of the NHSE academy Healthcare Leadership model. The course is delivered either online or in-person.

The course includes:

• 15 hours of training delivered over either 2 full day sessions or 4 part day sessions.
• A session where you will share your service development project.
• Mix of facilitated and self-directed Action Learning Sets.
• Provision of a course handbook.
• Support to plan a project to improve practice in your local area.
• A certificate of completion.

There is a minimum gap of 4 weeks in between taught sessions to enable time for application of learning to practice and reflection.  

We have delivered this for NHSE, and other commissioners, for over 5 years and have offered flexibility to make it bespoke for a combination of different learners We have received excellent feedback from our previous courses.

Examples of most recent feedback include:

‘Many thanks for your update on the evaluation, very positive as usual. Another good job completed.’

‘I feel much more confident and understand my leadership role much better, I’ve had a small win with my peers, which has given me a much needed boost’!

‘The theory of leadership was something I previously yawned at; I am not proud of that. The approach and teaching style of the facilitators has ​totally changed my outlook to a much more positive one and I am now fired up for action. I’m going to try some of your teaching methods out using the fab resources you provided to us. Thank you’.

‘I had no idea what to expect and was ‘invited’ to attend this by my manager. I am so glad she did. Following Day 1, I decided on my in-practice task and then used this and my learning to develop much more open, honest and productive Commissioner conversations. This is a total turnaround from where we were at before’.

‘I have used my learning to do a mini-version with my colleagues. As a result, we developed and submitted which encouraged further very positive dialogue. We are excited that some additional funding has now been granted to fund a pilot of our initiative. Thank you!!’

 If you are interested in one of our leadership courses please take 2 minutes to complete the expression of interest form using the QR code or link. Completion of the form does not commit you to registering or attending a course.

SAPHNA LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME expression of interest form.

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