The student has, or aspires to, a leadership role in a Health or Social Care setting.

1. Demonstrate critical awareness of leadership theories and critically analyse their impact on the quality of service provision within health and social care
Enquiry
Analysis
Knowledge and Understanding
Learning

2. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of organisational characteristics and the role of the leader in determining and enacting responsive change strategies
Knowledge and Understanding
Problem Solving

3. Demonstrate the ability to critically reflect on various approaches to service provision and communicate how the leadership role meets clinical governance and other quality agendas
Problem Solving
Communication
Application
Reflection

A presentation 50 mins (40 mins presentation, 10 mins questioning) (100%)
(This meets learning outcomes 1 - 3)

You are required to develop a proposal to support a bid for resources to improve quality of care. The chosen resource could be for an item of equipment, monies to fund a project, additional staff or other service to improve the patient experience and quality of care.

This is to be presented to the student group and module leader, critically examining your role as a leader in implementing this proposal, drawing on relevant leadership and change theories, and demonstrating your understanding of the relevant audit/benchmarks to support your proposal.

You are required to critically analyse the strategic and operational policies that have underpinned your bid proposal, and how this will impact on the quality and varying approaches to care of patients.

The current political and clinical governance agendas must be critically reflected upon to support the justification of your proposed bid, and how these have influenced your practice.

Formative Feedback will be provided following a group presentation in relation to leadership and patient experience.

The aim of this module is to enable senior practitioners to lead and implement change to meet clinical governance and other key quality agendas. The module will focus on direction-setting and visionary thinking by encouraging students to develop a context-sensitive approach to leadership, including understanding of local and national directives that impact upon quality issues and client care. Theories relating to change management, conflict, teamwork, motivation, power and risk management will be critically analysed in relation to how collaborative working can be facilitated by leaders.

Students will also explore and evaluate audit outcomes, standards, benchmarks and resource management. Analysis and evaluation of patient/client feedback will be used to identify and propose change and the resolution of practice issues.

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: (30 hours)

20 hours – Classroom lectures
8 hours – groupwork, seminars
2 – group / individual tutorials

Guided Independent Study: (120 hours)
100 hours- This might include reading, shadowing and visits to alternative practice settings, reflective writing/journals, preparation for assessment (formative and summative)
20 hours - The importance of the patient experience in relation to leadership topics will be considered through group discussion and formative assessment.

Barr, J. & Dowding, L. (2015) Leadership in Health Care. London: Sage.
Gopee, N. & Galloway, J. (2017) Leadership and Management in Healthcare. 3rd ed. London: Sage.
Gottwald, M. & Lansdown, G.E. (2014) Clinical Governance: Improving the quality of healthcare for patients and service users. Maidenhead: OU Press.
Marshall, B. et al. (2018) Beyond the Toolkit: Leading Quality Improvement in Health and Social Care. Faringdon: Libri.

Library resources
Blackboard/VLE
Classroom facilities

This module will enable you to consider key leadership topics in relation to Health and Social Care. Leadership theories will provide a valuable lens through which approaches to achieving collaborative working practice can be explored. These theories address dimensions of leadership such as change management, conflict, teamwork, motivation, and power. The nature of health and social care environments will be granted close consideration, for example, local and national directives that impact upon quality issues and client care. You will be encouraged to develop a context-sensitive and multifaceted appreciation of leadership topics. This will enable you to recognise how a complex intersection of relational, organisational and cultural factors shape the basis of successful leadership.