This development series of 90 minute bitesize topics is based on insights and experience drawn from work witha number of Integrated Care Systems across England. It will explore what partnership working looks like acrossteams and different organisations working in health and social care across the statutory sector, VCSEs andlocal communities. What does this mean for leaders? It is co-designed with input from the NHSLA and localrepresentatives to understand their current challenges and opportunities.
The aim is to enhance participants’ capability to think and act as leaders within systems. The programme is foranyone involved in organisation development, change and transformation work in health and care systemsacross England.
General learning outcomes for the programme:
Understand and explore a ‘Leading Transformation’ topic
Feel confident to apply some practical tools
Learn, share and grow with colleagues in similar situations
Who Leads in a System
Tuesday 24th October 2023 – 14.00 – 15.30 – Book Here
This topic will explore who leads in a systems context and how to leadacross boundaries.
Participants will gain a better understanding of:
- How leading in a system is different to leading in a single organisation
- Types of leaders in a systems context
- What knowledge, skills and behaviours are important for those leading insystems context
- Faculty: Alastair Mitchell-Baker, Nicoll Lyod, Sarah Amies
Improving the Health of our local Communities
Tuesday 7th November 2023 – 10.00 – 11.30 – Book Here
This topic will explore the difference between organisational performanceand real, practical outcomes and value for patients and localcommunities.
Participants will gain a better understanding of:
- How a focus on organisational performance metrics alone can fail todeliver whole systems outcomes.
- The challenge of inverse care needs – why those who most need medicalcare are least likely to receive it.
- How population health insights can inform leadership practice.
- Faculty: Dr Andrew Murray, Alastair Mitchell-Baker
Leading along side your local communities
Tuesday 21st November 2023 – 10.00 – 11.30 – Book Here
This topic will explore engagement and co-production with communities.How can you work as leaders to hear the voice of local communities andwork with their strengths and assets.
Participants will gain a better understanding of:
- Who to engage and how in your communities
- A relational approach to engagement and leading change
- What co-production and citizen leadership looks like
- Faculty: John Taylor, Alastair Mitchell-Baker, Nicoll Lyod
Rethinking recovery -a system perspective
Wednesday 6th December 2023 – 10.00 – 11.30 – Book Here
This topic will explore system responses to crisis and recovery.
Participants will gain a better understanding of:
- The surprising opportunities of self-organisation
- Collaborative approaches to service and workforce recovery
- Leading recovery in networks and across boundaries
- Faculty: Dr Roger Greene, Alastair Mitchell-Baker, Andrew Murray
Collaborating with your neighbourhood /place
Thursday 8th February 2024 – 11.00 – 12.30 – Book Here
This topic will explore how to collaborate across statutory partners andcommunities at place levels.
Participants will gain a better understanding of:
- Place-based working and building trust
- How to work together for real change
- Examples of partnership working at place level
- Faculty: Dr Andrew Murray, Alastair Mitchell-Baker
System workforce innovation
Wednesday 6th March 2024 – 10.00 – 11.30 – Book Here
This topic will explore innovative approaches to our workforce and thechallenges working in a system brings to the workforce.
Participants will gain a better understanding of:
- A system perspective on workforce challenges and opportunities
- Working with differences across ICS partners and places
- Innovation and transformation opportunities and tools
- Faculty: Nick Richmond, Patrick Mitchell
Humanising the Machine
Tuesday 19th March 2024 – 10.00 – 11.30 – Book Here
This topic will explore how culture can be developed and nurtured at a‘system’ level.
Participants will gain a better understanding of:
- Approaches to understanding and working with system culture
- How leadership and learning can be facilitated in systems
- Creating a sense of shared belonging across a system
- Faculty: Alastair Mitchell-Baker, Nicoll Lyod
Collaboratives -developing new waysof working
Tuesday 2nd April 2024 – 10.00 – 11.30 – Book Here
This topic will explore the different approaches to ‘Collaboratives’ as waysof working together across organisations and sectors at Place, acrossProviders and at System level.
Participants will gain a better understanding of:
- The different types of Collaboratives and illustrative Case studies
- The dynamics of leading and working in ‘Collaboratives’
- Decision-making when you feel you might lose out
- Faculty: John Taylor, Alastair Mitchell-Baker, Nicoll Lyod, Sarah Amies
Leading MDTs
Wednesday 17th April 2024 – 10.00 – 11.30 – Book Here
This topic will look at the context and evidence base for setting up andrunning effective MDTs or Integrated Neighbourhood Teams with primarycare and partners.
Participants will gain a better understanding of:
- The value and evidence base for MDTs
- The dynamics of leading and working in MDTs
- Key skills needed for leading MDTs
- Faculty : Andrew Murray, Alastair Mitchell-Baker
- Note: Material to be drawn from NHSLA programme / LLZ course
- Context and evidence base for MDT working.
- Establishing MDT working developing team purpose and focus
- Working confidently with conflict and difference
- Working in a multi-professional context: exploring different professional perspectivesand the use of language
