Leadership & Management Fundamentals for SAS Doctors

The foremost leadership & management preparatory course for SAS doctors

Designed specifically for senior SAS Doctors taking up wider roles and responsibilities, particularly if progressing towards a consultant post through the CESR (Article 14) route of entry onto the Specialist Register, this highly practical and extremely comprehensive leadership & management programme will ensure you can fully demonstrate your commitment to effective leadership and management. Grounded in the issues of today and with valuable extra support, it will ensure you go from working in a service to working on it & leading it!

Note: SAS Doctors should not attend both this course and the Core Skills for the Newer Consultant course due to common elements. This is the more suitable course if you are taking up wider roles or progressing towards CESR.

This course comes with valuable additional support, including:

• Behavioural Drivers Questionnaire & Feedback - to help you evaluate and develop your leadership approach
• Pre-course E-learning - Insights - Understanding the Evolving Healthcare Landscape (5 CPD Points)
• FREE Bonus E-learning – Understanding People (3 CPD Points) - to really develop your ability to lead different individuals

Consequently, this overall programme attracts 20 CPD points.

• Understand the changing NHS and challenges facing leaders
• Acquire skills in strategic visioning, service leadership and more
• Develop a robust approach to team, service and project leadership
• Gain valuable skills in influencing & leadership/ management communication
• Motivate and inspire productive, high performance teams
• Develop the requisite consultant/ service leader mindset

PRE-COURSE MATERIALS AND ASSESSMENTS

Medicology Behavioural Drivers Questionnaire (BDQ)

• Understand your own psychology more and how this influences your style
• Gain important insight that allows you greater behavioural flexibility
• Discover typical leadership traps and pitfalls that like groups often fall into
• Improve your ability to lead individuals and groups who are different

Insights - Understanding the Evolving Healthcare Landscape E-learning

• Enormously comprehensive & detailed - live capture of a fully facilitated programme
• 5 Guided Learning Hours
• Fully learn about how evolving policy will affect services
• Ensure you are fully conversant with the competition and choice agendas
• Fully understand the implications of GP-led Commissioning
• Develop a deep level of insight into the relationships between quality, safety, experience & finance

POST COURSE SUPPORT

Understanding People E-learning

• 3 Guided Learning Hours
• Develop much deeper insight into the psychology of different individuals
• Improve your leadership ability to influence, engage & persuade
• Resolve conflict more easily
• Create consensus and stimulate action more effectively

2-DAY DELIVERED PROGRAMME

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
• How might this influence the roles SAS doctors play?

The Transition from an SAS Position to Clinical or Service Leader

• Understanding the different mindset between SAS doctors & consultants/ clinical leaders
• Core issues and vital strategies to ensure your transition from delivery to service leadership
• Leadership & new consultant 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 your desired destination

Bigger Picture Clinical & Service Leadership

• Leadership versus Management - know the difference
• What do successful leaders do?
• Understanding the NHS Leadership Framework
• Medical Leadership Competency Framework
• Appreciating the multifaceted nature of the consultant/ service leader role
• Defining the key challenges facing clinical leaders 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
• Transactional versus Transformational leadership
• Enablement - WILL, SKILL, CAPACITY & AUTHORITY

6 Core Components of Effective Leadership - Operational Leadership

• Inspiring trust & confidence
• Clarifying & setting purpose and direction
• Aligning systems and processes
• Knowing your people
• Releasing potential
• Influencing, communication & engagement

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 trust and probity - ensuring you are beyond reproach
• Creating and deploying a strong team
• Core principles in team effectiveness
• 10 Facets of Team Effectiveness
• Diagnosing and rectifying team performance issues
• 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

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.

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• Presentation Excellence for Clinical Professionals