Aspiring Leadership Programme
(Maternity)
Registration is OPEN for this programme. Register today!
Programme Outline
Built especially for Maternity professionals and supported by the NHS
Healthy You Ltd are delighted to be able to offer a three-month programme that has been developed, with guidance from NHS England, focussed on equipping maternity workers to increase their strategic and operational ability to effectively lead across and upwards in organisations, and across systems.
The programme will be held mostly in person. with all workshops being held in person, however the coaching will be held online. It will also develop networks of experienced maternity leaders who can act as mentors and facilitators. We aim to create a portfolio of diverse leaders with different skill sets and experience, working, leading and influencing across and beyond boundaries, thereby demonstrating the true context in which current Heads of Midwifery and system leaders are working.
Who this is for
This programme is open to all senior maternity staff (above 8a), giving it an MDT focus. Valuable insights will be shared and learned from the MDT, including midwives, obstetricians, neonatologists, system leaders in maternity. There is robust mechanisms for connection and networking between aspiring maternity leaders nationally, as well as a strong focus on supporting self-awareness and strengthening resilience. In order to get as much out of the programme, we limit the number of people registered on it to 60 participants.
The time investment
The programme will launch in September 2024. Workshops and coaching will run throughout October and November.
There will be a break in December, to allow for learning consolidation and will commence mid-January. It will complete in February 2025. The total time investment is 25 hours.
Location and pricing
The programme is held in person, in two locations - Leeds and London. The price per delegate is £2750 (+VAT).
London sessions will be held at:
The Royal Aeronautical Society, No 4 Hamilton Place, Mayfair, London, W1J 7BQ
Launch date: 17th September 2024
Leeds sessions will be held at:
The Studio, Riverside West, Whitehall Road, Leeds, LS1 4AW
Launch date - 26th September 2024
Workshops are all in person and Coaching sessions are delivered online.
Programme Content
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Workforce Planning
Strategic view of workforce modelling, and securing staff required in the medium and long term. Effective workforce planning in maternity services in a Trust. Use of Birthrate+ and other workforce planning tools to ensure safe number of midwives and application of professional judgement.
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Interview Preparation
Understanding the organisation and health economy you are applying to. Identifying the recruiters’ precise requirement. Preparing for interview. Managing your performance at interview. Additionally, preparing for stakeholder interviews.
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Financial Confidence
Budget negotiation (within the organisation). SFI’s, budget setting and approval. Effective budget delegation. Budget reporting and performance management. Relating budget to contract income
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Managing & Challenging Upwards
Basic board reporting requirements. Statutory responsibilities for reporting to the board. Making an impact with the board, and within maternity services more broadly. Maintaining the profile of maternity services. Managing board members.
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Maternity Safety and Quality
Safety standards, quality assurance framework, and how these should be applied and monitored. How to assess whether their teams are psychologically safe, and ways to create psychologically safe cultures for staff and patients they care for.
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Self-Care Workshop
Signs of burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and psychological trauma, in themselves (and others). Ways to optimise their wellbeing, enabling them to lead teams effectively. How they respond to change, particularly at times of uncertainty. Psychological tools to help themselves (and to develop skills to provide psychological support to their teams)
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Compassionate Leadership Workshop
Learning to facilitate change with individuals, teams, and their organisation, and psychologically ‘hold’ their teams when challenges and uncertainty present, creating stress, worries, and anxiety in others. Compassionate and relational models of leadership, and ways to apply these with their teams. Providing a role model for others. Providing psychologically safe learning environments for maternity services teams.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Understanding own biases. How to embed DEI into teams and maternity organisations, at each level and integrate into policies. Ways to measure this. Addressing when DEI isn’t part of the workplace culture and how to change this. How to change cultures, e.g. bullying, safety, discriminative. Creating positive working cultures.
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Group coaching sessions (up to 4 people)
Four sessions of coaching: one 60-minute introductory session, and three 90-minute sessions throughout the programme. All coaching sessions are online and dates will be confirmed before the programme commences.
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MindYourself App
During your self-care workshop, you will be provided with a code to access a 6 month membership of our app, which prevents the escalation of mental health challenges for workers who are short on time, navigating challenging environments.