Managing People, Projects & Services

Change is the one constant facing just about every service in the emerging landscape, whether it is new ways of working, financial reform or a major project. The easy way is to set it up right in the first place, ensure you get the right people on board, then plan and execute in a timely fashion with minimal resistance. This requires the right knowledge, insight and skills and that's exactly what this course is designed to deliver. Focused, practical and cutting to the heart of the real difficulties in change.

A raft of practical strategies built into an easy to manage framework that ensures you excel as a consultant, gain the best from your staff and carry yourself with utmost professionalism. This course is designed as an intensive submersion into the key areas necessary to succeed in being an exceptional consultant. Covering everything from new found managerial responsibility to fiscal probity, risk, governance and even the business of health, it acts as a comprehensive framework packed with the practical application of core skills.

Effective services have sensible consultant job plans that are closely matched to attainment of important organisational objectives. However, those responsible for establishing job plans and holding discussions with their consultant colleagues find agreeing job plans one of the most stressful activities they have to engage in.

The expectations on modern clinical services are immense against a backdrop of low morale and increased uncertainty. The service that does not effectively organise, utilise and manage its workforce is unlikely to have the capacity, efficiency and drive to produce the sort of performance that leads to success in the evolving landscape. This highly practical but immensely powerful programme is designed to help service leaders, consultants & senior professionals from across healthcare organise teams for maximum effectiveness.

There`s a world of difference between managing patients and managing services and yet many consultants find themselves in charge of large numbers of people and huge budgets without formal training or development. Management Masterclass is designed to look practically at how you can excel in your role as manager in the context of today`s NHS and your concurrent role as a consultant. With an emphasis on creating effective clinical and team performance it gets to the heart of modern management science in a medical context.

One of the most stressful roles a doctor performs is that of managing performance issues with juniors or even colleagues. Despite feeling like a minefield of legal principles, individual sensitivities and clinical governance, using the right approach coupled with effective skills results in rapid attainment or restoration of acceptable clinical standards and a life-long fan thanks to the support you have provided. This highly practical, leading edge course will leave you confident of achieving the right impact.

The nature of training and the doctors produced has altered radically over recent years but in many cases the evolution of how to supervise, manage and get the best from juniors has lagged behind. The challenges arising from more numerous but less experienced juniors, full shift systems, EWTD and more now have the potential to undermine service quality, financial security and competitiveness unless we rethink the management and supervision of doctors in training.