Medics Academy

About the CPHL Module

Our Core Principles module aims to provide you with the essential skills you need in your future leadership career. You will be introduced to the broader context of leadership in the NHS as an example of a healthcare system and provided with  tools for analytical and reflective thinking to enable development of your own leadership style. 

The programme is delivered through a combination of webinars, assignments and online resources, and has been built using our experience running the internationally renowned Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholars Programme. There will be a range of speakers, tutors and workshop hosts providing a selection of content that is recorded and accessible flexibly. There is a community aspect to the programme with all candidates being invited to take part in an online network.  This fully online module is designed to be completed over 12 months.

Overall Learning Outcomes

1. Critical understanding of contemporary issues in health and social care leadership and management.

2. Critical awareness of wider health and public service systems

3. Critical understanding of the learner’s own professional environment and context and the different styles of leadership and management within it 

4. Understand and critically evaluate different attributes, skills and styles of leadership within different healthcare contexts. 

5. Identify, evaluate, and critically reflect on how different values, preferences, and management cultures affect the learner’s  ability to work with and influence others in their workplace context.

Module Aims

This module introduces students to the key principles and theories of leadership within the healthcare profession. Students will develop tools for analytical and reflective thinking that will enable them to develop their own leadership style. This module aims to be an introduction to:

• The key principles of leadership within the healthcare profession.
• NHS and Health Services culture and context.
• The Six Pillars Of Leadership:

  • The Leader as a Communicator
    

  • The Leader as a Negotiator

  • The Leader as a Innovator and Entrepreneur

  • The Leader as a Philosopher 

  • The Leader as a Follower 

  • The Leader as a Manager

• The current context of clinical leadership in education and research. 

Time commitments

• 70 hours – Theoretical Understanding. This includes online teaching and reading to be completed in your own time. 
• 30 hours - Project supervision workshops.
• 100 hours – Project work.

Why take this module? 

• We have years of experience teaching healthcare professionals how to lead.
• We have worked with a wide range of clinicians and managers from across the health and social care economy to design a flexible module that meets your specific needs and responds to the challenges faced by the health and social care sectors.
• Study in bite-sized chunks each week. Flexible, modular study enables you to progress at your own pace.
• Join a vibrant academic community made up of clinicians and managers from across health and social care.

What you'll do

• You will be taught by experienced and practising clinicians, academics and tutors.
• Have great opportunities to learn and network with others and share experiences and perspectives.
• Develop transferable skills, knowledge and techniques to take back to utilise in your organisation and future career.

Assessment Methods