October 2024 News Bulletin
Please see our latest news and events below:
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.
Becoming a Mentor Programme – Cohort 3 and 4
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.
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 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.
The deadline for applications will be 5pm on 6 December 2024
Final call for applications ! System Collaborative Programme:
Closing Date Friday 1st November
What is the System Collaborative Programme?
The Systems Collaborative Programme empowers collaboratives (small groups working for a common purpose) to transform health and care services by fostering collaboration across sectors. When the NHS, local authorities, voluntary organisations, and local partners work together, they create more effective, responsive care based on local needs.
The programme is designed for collaboratives striving to improve population health and inequalities by working across organisational boundaries and helps teams develop the collaborative leadership skills needed to tackle challenges, build trust, and deliver better health outcomes for their communities.
More information can be found via our website and Information pack here
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.
Looking After You: ABC of Stress
Join us to create some time to explore
- Recognising stress responses and stressors
- Recognising burnout
- ABC responses
- Self-care and self-compassion
This session is aimed at staff working at any level, who recognise that they would benefit from an opportunity to consider their own stress responses, and to consider aspects of self care.
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
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