November 2024 News Bulletin

Please see our latest news and events below:

Don’t be a DNA!

DNAs (did not attend) aren’t just an issue for GP surgeries and outpatient clinics.  At NEYLA we aim to offer a wide variety of development opportunities to as many staff as possible, and like all NHS services we are feeling the impact of budget restrictions.

You can help us to increase our impact by letting us know when plans have changed. So far in this financial year, there have been over 900 individual DNA’s which has resulted in the loss of workshop and programme places worth £1000’s in public money that could have been offered to those on our waiting list.

We understand that DNAs are sometimes unavoidable due to increasing pressure on services and staffing levels. However, as our events and programmes are often over-subscribed, please let us know at your earliest convenience if you are unable to attend a session. This will allow us to allocate this place to the waiting list to maximise attendance and ensure effective use of NHS funds.

Introduction to Leadership and Management

This Introduction to Leadership and Management Programme provides a comprehensive development package, enabling participants to build confidence and leadership capability in the workplace.

Approach

This interactive programme combines theory and practice, applying a range of tools and techniques, in a peer learning environment.

Assimilating knowledge and skills into everyday working practice is central to the programme’s approach

To accelerate personal development a small number of additional tasks are set in- between sessions

Audience

This programme is aimed at aspiring managers or managers in their first year of experience, wanting to build their leadership capability.

Participants can be from clinical and non-clinical backgrounds and across pay bands.

Please visit our website for more information and how to apply

Winter Health and Wellbeing Support 

Supporting the wellbeing of our region is vital and ensures our staff members are well equipped to deliver the best patient care at any time, especially during the upcoming winter season when our colleagues will encounter a number of pressures and challenges. 

The NHS Staff survey has identified that our staff are experiencing fatigue and burn out, adding in the extra pressures of winter and all its demands; how can people in leadership positions support themselves and their staff ?

Tools such as :

• The needs wheel, keeping your wheel fully inflated, Personal energy audit, how to avoid winter thinking traps
• Top tips to nurture yourself, so you have more energy
• Top tips to nurture your team, so they have more energy
• Discover the power of the winter pause
• Create a personal action plan to help transfer the learning back into your workforce.

Please visit our events page on our website or view our upcoming events below to book your place.

Closing date extended for –Becoming a Mentor Programme – Cohort 3 and 4 (Closing date 6th December)

We are excited to announce that applications are now open for our ‘Becoming a Mentor’ programme.

This programme will offer a non-accredited route to developing enhanced skills within mentoring. Participants will be required to identify a mentee to work with throughout the programme to enable the transfer of theory to lived experience. 

Features and benefits to participants

• The opportunity to work with colleagues from across organisations to share learning.
• The opportunity to gain key skills around the use of mentoring to support staff development.
• Increased awareness and understanding of the impact of active listening and impactful questions.
• Increased awareness of inter-personal responses and impact upon others.

Please visit our news page for more information and how to apply.

Leading Together: Creating Solutions through System Leadership

Leading Together: Creating Solutions through System Leadership is a series of five short stand-alone masterclasses designed for those whose work involves collaboration across team, organisation or system boundaries.

The series was created to support leaders within systems to deepen their understanding of system leadership and systems thinking, how to create culture and vision within a system, and how to better work collaboratively at place and system level to improve services and population health within their area. Find out more here: Leading Together: Creating Solutions through System Leadership – North East and Yorkshire Leadership Academy

General Practice Nurse Development: Leadership Fundamentals

Are you a Nurse working in General Practice looking to develop your leadership skills? The North East and Yorkshire Leadership Academy’s (NEYLA) GPN Leadership Fundamentals Modules and Follow-up workshops were developed with and exclusively for General Practice Nurses and Nurse Practitioners.

Launched in September, the three online modules explore the difference between leadership and management and what it means to be a nurse in a leadership position. Topics include managing change, performance and behaviour, managing conflict, influence, self-care and compassionate leadership.

To further support practice nurses, NEYLA are also offering a follow-up workshop to help consolidate your learning with a choice of 3 dates to choose from in early 2025. The 3hr workshop allows delegates to connect with nurse peers from across the region, to reflect their leadership style and to support them to bring the learning from the modules to life.

To book onto a workshop and for more information on the modules please read our information pack.

Clinical Leadership for Integrated Care Programme (The deadline for applications will be 5pm on 6th December 2024)

The Clinical Leadership for Integrated Care programme aims to develop clinical leaders with a greater awareness of themselves, their influence and the complex systems they lead in, and with the ultimate aim a pipeline of clinical leaders able to lead positive change within the developing integrated care architecture.

This highly experiential programme is open to senior clinical leaders of all professions who are involved in cross-system working as part of their role and is made up of four modules: The importance of awareness, Developing Influence and agency, Working with complex problems and Making sense of the broader system.

For more information on the programme and how to apply please visit our information pack.

Upcoming Events

Winter Health and Wellbeing Support Package:

The NHS Staff survey has identified that our staff are experiencing fatigue and burn out. Adding in the extra pressures of winter and all its demands; how can people in leadership positions support themselves and their staff ?

This series of standalone lunchtime workshops will assist you with your winter pressures by giving you time and space to think about your position, your team and how you can introduce some practical tools to promote wellbeing.

Winter Support: Health and Wellbeing Cafés

This series of standalone  90-minute virtual café where you can come and spend time with other healthcare professionals to explore:

• Time to think about wellbeing and what it means to you this winter
• Share experiences & concerns
• Information and resource sharing
• A menu of top tips to share with your colleagues
• Opportunities to practice in break out rooms how you will transfer new tools into your work
• Time to create a personal action plan to take away and use for yourself and your colleagues

Team Working in Times of Change

Our region has and is still facing a number of changes across the organisations, team development after change is essential for fostering resilient, cohesive and high performing work force that can navigate new challenges. We have designed mini series of workshops that will support you through change, these workshops will:-

• Provide insight into how teams function well
• Highlight the challenges and pitfalls following times of change
• Give guidance on the role each individual plays in uniting a team
• Provide a safe space for individuals to address the challenges they are facing and explore solutions.

Along side the mini series workshops we are also offering group coaching for colleagues who have joined a new team – application is required and you must be able to commit to all three dates advertised in Teams in Change:

Psychological Safety: A Non-Negotiable for a Healthcare Organisation

Join us to consider your leadership and management responses can positively impact your own work area by exploring psychological safety, optimal culture and how can we build it in our teams 

• Understanding psychological safety from a research, historical and practical perspective. 

• What is our relationship with psychological safety? 

• Exploring the importance of psychological safety in healthcare environments 

• A culture of silence – what happens when things go wrong? 

Nursing & Midwifery Career Development Workshops

These workshops are offered to support Band 5/6 nurses and midwives working across the region.

This workshop will focus on exploring your personal career journey, preparing for interview and feeling able to bring your “best self”. Join us for an opportunity to connect with peers from across the region

Career & Interview Skills Coaching

This coaching CPD session will offer a small group learning environment, following Kolb’s experiential learning cycle (experience – reflection – thinking – action). Join us for an opportunity to expand your current skills around career and interview preparation coaching.

HLM 360 Refresher

All accredited HLM facilitators must complete 2 feedback sessions per year to maintain their registration. If you feel the need to refresh your use of the reports, this session is for you. This participative session will provide trained HLM facilitators with the opportunity to re-visit the HLM 360 report and to explore the impact of feedback

HLM 360 CPD: Solutions Focussed Feedback

This session will focus on exploring the use of tools and techniques to enable supportive challenge during a 360 feedback; these skills would also be applicable to those who support staff with annual appraisal or other performance focussed conversations.

Managers Toolbox – Effective Delegation

The Managers Toolbox offers a series of sessions with the aim of strengthening and developing skills and awareness around managing people, processes and problem solving.These workshops are open to staff holding a line management role, which has opportunities for cross boundary working.

Delegation is a powerful topic and tool. At a simple level it is about making sure tasks are done by the right people, however an enhanced understanding of the skills involved, and potential outcomes allows managers to release resources (own and others) and increase motivation and initiative within a team or organisation.

Managers Toolbox: Self Management

Few people ever they have more than enough hours in the day; exploring how we can better apply self-management by considering time management, and seeing the
priorities. This requires some self-reflection; join us for an engaing workshop which will include:

• Calendar/diary management, time blocking, creating boundaries
• The ‘Eisenhower Matrix’ for prioritisation
• How to develop and maintain focus
• Hints and tips on maintaining self-management, including cycles of planning and
  review
• Email management