Lancashire and South Cumbria Training Hub

#AskAboutAsthma : how nurses are transforming CYP asthma
2023-09-13 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Join NHSE for a dedicated webinar for nurses caring for children and young people with asthma, part of the #AskAboutAsthma campaign. NHSE will hear about MART for CYP asthma, learning from system-wide nurse led pilot work in North East London and more.
Questions about this event?
Name: BCYP team
Email:england.cyptransformationLDN@nhs.net
Telephone:07595 090072

TPP Safeguarding Webinar (Accelerating Patient Access)
2023-09-13 13:30 - 14:30 (Europe/London)
Date: Wednesday 13 September 2023
Time: 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Enabling patient access to their primary care medical record – TPP Safeguarding Webinar
Chair: Helen Crowther (National Digital Primary Care Nurse Lead)
Join us for this NHS England webinar session.
Chair Helen Crowther (National Digital Primary Care Nurse Lead) NHSE will facilitate a discussion with Dr Tim Caroe – NHSE SE Medical Director Primary Care Transformation (The Lighthouse Medical Practice) on top tips for safeguarding access to records, mythbusting, answering questions and offering guidance and reassurance.
Additionally:

Richard Bowron and Jemma Atkinson will discuss the end to end journey for full prospective access
Colin Osborn will discuss self-enablement and safeguarding advice in the TPP guide

Please note the link to join the webinar will be emailed to all delegates by 5 pm on 12 September.
If you any questions about this webinar, please contact us by sending an email to: england.gprecordaccess@nhs.net with ‘TPP Webinar 13 September’ in the subject line.
Questions about this event?
Name: Accelerating Patient Access team
Email:england.gprecordaccess@nhs.net

ACP Clinical Supervision Session
2023-09-13 18:00 - 19:00 UTC
This training event will enable you to reflect on and further develop your knowledge and skills necessary to your role as a clinical supervisor.
Focus: spinal fragility fractures – case studies (Speaker Laura Abel)

Workplace Health Champion Training (Preston) - 3 days
2023-09-14
Location: Preston (TBC)
Dates:

Day 1: 14th Sept 2023
Day 2: 22nd Sept 2023
Day 3: 4th Oct 2023

This training is for anyone interested in Health and Wellbeing, who can act as an advocate within their workplace.
Please note registration closes 1 week before first date.
Level 3 Award in Skills for Workplace Health Champions
The Level 3 course provides a deeper understanding of the practicalities of the role and includes an assessment. The first day of Level 3 course covers all of the Level 2 content.
If you wish to complete Level 2 only, you only need to attend day 1. If you wish to complete level 3, you must attend all 3 dates. Please ensure you state this when signing up.
After this course you will:

Understand different mental health conditions and how to identify them in the workplace
Understand the importance of healthy eating and consider this in the context of the workplace
Demonstrate how to conduct research and gather insight into the needs of the workforce relating to sports or physical activity
Plan and run a workplace health campaign
Understand the elements of health and safety needed whilst planning a sport/physical activity session
Facilitate a sport or physical activity session

Following the course, you will receive:

A pin badge and a fully-accredited certificate within four weeks of the last day of the course
A copy of the presentation and a resource booklet which includes useful links to further information covered in the course.

You will also have access to:

Monthly ‘drop-in-clinics’, which will support and guide you in putting your role into practice
A Facebook group with other Workplace Health Champions, in which there will be competitions, updates and sharing of good news stories from across the programme
A broader package of training to complement your role, including refresher training, mental health, safeguarding etc.
Quarterly webinars which offer discussions and information on key topics you may be experiencing as part of the role

You will be contacted by the training provider to give further information. As the course is fully funded by the European Social Fund, you will be asked to complete some online forms in order to check eligibility. These forms should only take no longer than10 minutes to complete. The provider will also require some evidence of employment and proof to live and work in the UK.

Leading Transformation and Change - NWLA
2023-09-14 09:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London)
This is a two part session, both sessions must be attended

Tuesday 14th November, 9am – 12pm
Thursday 23rd November, 9am – 12pm

Overview:
Rapid change and disruption characterise the current climate in which NHS organisations operate. In this context, system leaders have to introduce, manage and sustain change to achieve organisational objectives, whilst maintaining people’s commitment to the process. However, implementing and sustaining change is not always easy or straightforward. Challenges occur in various forms such as; lack of collaborative working or leadership, resistance to change, or rigid organisational cultures.
The day will cover:

Define the key steps to managing change
Develop a plan to lead complex and large-scale change, recognising barriers and constraints
Consider ways of sustaining change
Engage and inspire people to create an inclusive and learning culture across a whole system.

Who is it for?
This module is aimed at senior leaders across the North West (including but not exclusive to NHS Organisation Board and Sub Board post-holders, Executive and Governing Body Leads, Primary Care Network senior leadership teams and those working across system-level roles) working across systems who are in a position to share their experiences of system leadership.

#AskAboutAsthma one-day virtual conference
2023-09-14 09:00 - 16:00 UTC
#AskAboutAsthma is back this September for its seventh year, and we want to invite you to be part of it.
For 2023, the #AskAboutAsthma campaign will run from 11 – 17 September. This year’s theme is “Widening our view”. NHSE are shining a light on the wider factors of children and young people’s asthma care including housing, mould and vaping. “Widening our view” also helps NHSE to raise the profile of asthma; reaching out to everyone who has asthma, their friends, families and the whole system that cares for them.
The #AskAboutAsthma campaign encourages children and young people, their families, and those involved in their care, to ensure four simple and effective measures to help them control their asthma:

Get an asthma action plan in place
Understand how to use inhalers correctly
Schedule an asthma review – every year and after every attack
Consider air pollution and its impact on lung health

Throughout the week there will be webinars, podcasts, blogs, vlogs, social media activity and a one-day virtual conference. Details of the one-day conference can be found below.
One-day virtual conference
This year’s one-day virtual conference will be held on Thursday 14 September.
There will be sessions on:

Inequalities in children and young people’s asthma care
Housing damp and mould
The risks of vaping to children and young people with asthma
Clinical and national updates

Questions about this event?
Name: Jojo Taylor
Email:england.cyptransformationLDN@nhs.net
Telephone:07702436030

North West Wider Workforce Clinical Supervision Course (Day 1)
2023-09-14 09:00 - 16:30 UTC
Please view the below flyer for full details
NWWW Clinical Supervisors Sep 2023 Flier

Influenza, Pneumonia and B12 Vaccination Update Training
2023-09-14 09:30 - 11:30 UTC
Update training for immunisation and vaccinations covering Influenza, Pneumonia and B12 designed to provide health care professionals with an annual update in line with the national minimum standards and core curriculum for immunisations.

You will receive a certificate post training for your attendance. Places are limited, if you have booked a place, please ensure you attend.
If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place via Eventbrite. If you are struggling with booking or cancelling your place, please contact us on mbpcc.lscthub@nhs.net
By signing up you agree for your information to be stored and shared by the Training hub and with the Training Provider, NHSE and HEE, for the delivery of this training, monitoring, reporting and certification purposes only.

Video Group Clinics Webinar
2023-09-15 09:00 - 10:00 UTC
Join us on this webinar where we will cover practical aspects of developing video group consultations in practice.
This session is for anyone in primary care wanting to develop video group consultations and learn more about how this is done.

Collaborative Masterclass: Strengthening Our Sector: How We Can Harness Our Community Assets
2023-09-15 09:15 - 12:00 UTC
Book your place for our September Collaborative Masterclass!
This masterclass will explore ways to encourage co-production within communities, along with the skills and behaviours needed for leaders to be effective and know when it is appropriate to apply co-production.
The key objectives of the Masterclass are to:

Explore asset-based community development and other strengths-based approaches
Consider ways to encourage engagement and co-production within communities
Enable leaders to understand when it is appropriate to apply co-production and work with their strengths
Hear from citizens that are demanding co-production
Consider what skills and behaviours do leaders need to be effective?

Speakers
Cormac Russell
Cormac is a social explorer, an author and a much sought-after speaker. He is the Founding Director of Nurture Development and a member of the Asset-Based Community Development
(ABCD) Institute, at DePaul University, Chicago. Over the last 25 years, Cormac’s work has demonstrated an enduring impact in 35 countries around the world. He has trained communities, agencies, NGOs and governments in ABCD and other community-based approaches in Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe and North America.
His most recent books are The Connected Community- Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods (Coauthor John McKnight); Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022, and
Rekindling Democracy – A Professional’s Guide to Working in Citizen Space; Cascade Books, 2020.
Donna Hall
Honorary Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester, and is also an Integrated Care System Adviser to NHS England.
She explores the need for different conversations with people to build resilient communities and individuals, and provides insight into the work she is involved in, by investing in the first
1,000 days of life as a key point of intervention. The former chief executive of Wigan Council also shares why integrated care systems need to be clear about what they are going to do, and
to ask themselves the honest question, ‘how integrated are we?’

Collaborative Masterclass – Strengthening our sector: how we can harness our community assets
2023-09-15 09:15 - 12:00 UTC
Cormac Russell, Managing Director of Nurture Development, will demonstrate why he believes that the traditional customer segmentation and needs analysis approaches are the way of the past and that assets and strengths are the future.
In this masterclass Cormac Russell will:
• Share the fundamental principles of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) and how they relate to leadership at all levels.
• Share practical approaches to implementation and structural change
• Share his experiences of working across the world using asset-based community development to grow communities in the most challenging of circumstances.
• Give you the opportunity to work through some of the challenges you are currently facing, apply what you have heard to your context, and keep with your current strategies for Community Renewal.
Aimed at:

All senior leaders, and may be of particular interest to:
Directors with responsibility for regeneration and development.
Leaders and Ward Councillors.
Senior officers with interest in community development.
Senior public health professionals.
Those from the voluntary and community sectors.
Those with portfolios in Corporate Social Responsibility and Local Economic Development

Session Overview:
1. Introductions2. The Dilemmas faced in putting Communities First (facilitated by Cormac Russell)3. Keynote: Cormac Russell4. Show Don’t Tell, getting this Way of Working and Being in the Ground Water: Facilitated Discussion.
Who is Cormac Russell?
Cormac is a social explorer, an author and a much sought-after speaker. He is the Founding Director of Nurture Development and a member of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, at DePaul University, Chicago.
Over the last 25 years, Cormac’s work has demonstrated an enduring impact in 35 countries around the world. He has trained communities, agencies, NGOs and governments in ABCD and other community-based approaches in Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe and North America.
His most recent books are The Connected Community- Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods (Coauthor John McKnight); Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022, and Rekindling Democracy – A Professional’s Guide to Working in Citizen Space; Cascade Books, 2020.

#AskAboutAsthma: new and old inhaled toxins and children with asthma
2023-09-15 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Join NHSE for a dedicated webinar on air pollution, part of the #AskAboutAsthma campaign. This webinar is aimed at anyone interested in air pollution and how it affects children and young people with asthma. NHSE will hear from Jonathan Grigg on”New and old inhaled toxins and children with asthma”, Global Action Plan on the work they are doing with Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to improve area-wide air pollution and air pollution in and around schools and more.
Questions about this event?
Name: BCYP team
Email:england.cyptransformationLDN@nhs.net
Telephone:07702416148

Wellbeing Conversations Training
2023-09-18 12:00 - 13:30 UTC
Managers and Leaders: Join us for a L&SC PCTH Wellbeing Conversation Session!

What is a wellbeing conversation?
The NHS People Plan 2020-21 sets out an ambition: “From September 2020, every member of the NHS should have a health and wellbeing conversation and develop a personalised plan. These conversations may fit within an appraisal, job plan or one-to-one line management discussion, and should be reviewed at least annually. As part of this conversation, line managers will be expected to discuss the individual’s health and wellbeing, and any flexible working requirements, as well as equality, diversity and inclusion.”

Vision for the wellbeing conversations
Health and wellbeing conversations are intended to be regular, supportive, coaching-style one to one conversations that focus on the wellbeing of our NHS people.
By encouraging organisations to embed wellbeing conversations across their system, we aim to create cultures where people feel heard and valued, and in which diversity is respected. This should, in turn, encourage us all to pass care and compassion on to each other, to patients and to our families.
Wellbeing conversations should consider the whole wellbeing of an individual (e.g. physical, mental, emotional, social, financial, lifestyle, safety) and identify areas where the individual may need support, signpost them to that support, and regularly monitor their wellbeing over time.

If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place via Eventbrite. If you are struggling with booking or cancelling your place, please contact us on mbpcc.lscthub@nhs.net
By signing up you agree for your information to be stored and by the Training hub and shared with NHSE and HEE, for the delivery of this training, monitoring, reporting and certification purposes only.

Introduction to Immunisation and Vaccinations Training (Foundation)
2023-09-19 - 2023-09-20
PLEASE NOTE DAY 1 IS TO COMPLETE ALL ELEARNING ELEMENTS PRIOR TO DAY 2.
Day 2 will be virtually on MS Teams (9:30am-16:30)
The Immunisation and Vaccination Foundation is a blended learning programme.
This training includes NHS Travel Vaccine schedules
This is for those new to providing Immunisation and Vaccinations
This course does not cover anaphylaxis or basic life support. This must be completed separately.
NOTE – for Non Registered Healthcare Professionals – BEFORE BOOKING PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU – have achieved education and training to Level Three of the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF)4 or equivalent in England and Wales with at least 2 years’ experience as recommended in The National Minimum Standards. These Standards are intended to support and facilitate high quality, safe delivery of the influenza, shingles and/or pneumococcal vaccination programmes. See here advice for HCA I & V Training.
In line with the Public Health England (2018) Minimum Standards and Core Curriculum for Immunisation Training for Registered Healthcare Practitioners we have developed a blended approach of both an e learning and a face to face taught course which previously consisted of two full taught days. Those new to immunisation are required to receive comprehensive foundation immunisation training.

The programme web site is:– https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/immunisation/
The programme is free to access just register to use the e-lfh portal.

The course is designed around the updated National Minimum Standards and the competency assessment tool which must be undertaken in clinical practice following completion of the workshop. Please see the link below for a copy of the competency assessment tool for registered practitioners:
This is an interactive session and you will be expected to interact. Please ensure you have a camera and microphone available to attend the meeting.
https://www.rcn.org.uk/professional-development/publications/pdf-006943

National Influenza Update Training
2023-09-19 02:00 - 16:00 UTC
In line with the Public Health England, L&SC PCTH have developed an update training session for the National Influenza Flu Programme.
Sign up to this 1.5 hour virtual update available for all staff who are intending delivery of flu vaccinations this year. This will include details of flu strains this year, the eligibility cohorts, administration and delivery of the vaccination.

You will receive a certificate post training for your attendance. Places are limited, if you have booked a place, please ensure you attend.
If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place via Eventbrite. If you are struggling with booking or cancelling your place, please contact us on mbpcc.lscthub@nhs.net
By signing up you agree for your information to be stored and shared by the Training hub and with the Training Provider, NHSE and HEE, for the delivery of this training, monitoring, reporting and certification purposes only.

Self development session for GPNs
2023-09-19 09:30 - 10:30, 2023-09-19 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
This one hour session explores personality traits and focuses on self development using various techniques​
This is a fully interactive session- please ensure you have a camera and microphone
You will receive a certificate post training for your attendance. Places are limited, if you have booked a place, please ensure you attend.If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place via Eventbrite.
If you are struggling with booking or cancelling your place, please contact us on mbpcc.lscthub@nhs.net

Essential Care Navigation
2023-09-19 09:30 - 12:30 UTC
OVERVIEW
With the Forward View requiring that primary care takes the lead on signposting patients to the most appropriate support (other than the GP they want to see), practice staff will need to learn a range of skills in holding these conversations and dealing with the challenges of patient expectation and behaviour.
This Primary Care Navigation Training is designed to specifically support primary care staff in having conversations that will encourage patients to see the most appropriate person to manage their needs.

AIMS

What is care navigation?
Why is care navigation essential in taking primary care forward?
Recognising the care navigation we are already doing.
Understanding that signposting is not triage
Tips to ensure that patients have confidence in the process
Supporting patients who are reluctant to not see a GP
Managing aggression and frustration
Minimising abuse
Developing self-confidence in the role

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Non-Clinical Primary Care Staff

Phlebotomy/Venepuncture Training
2023-09-19 09:30 - 16:30 UTC
Location: Fatima Health Centre, 228 Garstang Road, Fulwood, PR2 9QB, Preston
This phlebotomy venepuncture training course is aimed at all healthcare staff, specifically registered nurses, carers and support workers who’s role include taking bloods.
This is ideal for staff who are looking to improve their skills in venepuncture.
The Venepuncture Training will aim to improve the students’ knowledge of the theory surrounding venepuncture including: the correct order of draw, the anatomy of veins and how to select a suitable site – allow students to practice using a synthetic arm.
Please note: This course contains a full practical (face to face) session.

Training includes but is not limited to:

Identify the suitable veins for Venepuncture
Identify the indications and contraindications for both the practitioner and the patient
To discuss the equipment used for performing Venepuncture
To be made aware of the full procedure and raise awareness for potential policy variations
To provide simulated practise in a controlled environment to help develop Venepuncture skills
To consider Venepuncture from patients point of view

Making a difference: Health Coaching
2023-09-19 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
The event will be recorded so if you are unable to stay, you should still be able to access the recording following.
Please refrain from sharing the webinar link, please direct people to register via this registration form.

This event will be one of the activities planned to coincide with the National ‘Health Coaching Awareness Week’ planned through 18-22nd September 2023. Follow @Pers_Care for updates on further activities planned and use #HealthCoaching throughout the week to share your experiences and insights.
If you have any queries or the joining link does not arrive within 72 hours of registering please contact – england.pldp@nhs.net

Making a difference: Health Coaching
2023-09-19 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London)
Thank you for registering for our next Making a difference webinar, we really appreciate your continued support and enthusiasm to hear more about how working with people and communities really does make a difference to peoples lives. We look forward to seeing you at this event on Tuesday 19th September 1-2:30pm.
The event will be recorded so if you are unable to stay, you should still be able to access the recording following.
Please refrain from sharing the webinar link, please direct people to register via this registration form.

This event will be one of the activities planned to coincide with the National ‘Health Coaching Awareness Week’ planned through 18-22nd September 2023. Follow @Pers_Care for updates on further activities planned and use #HealthCoaching throughout the week to share your experiences and insights.
If you have any queries or the joining link does not arrive within 72 hours of registering please contact – england.pldp@nhs.net

Mental Health Awareness Training: Promoting Wellbeing
2023-09-20 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London)
Training for staff working in primary care: Promoting common mental disorder
Learning outcomes
By the end of this training the participant will:

Know which conditions are defined as common mental disorder
Be able to screen for depression and anxiety
Understand how to use tools designed to assess the severity of depression and anxiety
Know how to assess suicide risk
Be aware of the treatments available for common mental disorder
Understand which agencies offer treatment for common mental disorder

If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place via Eventbrite. If you are struggling with booking or cancelling your place, please contact us on mbpcc.lscthub@nhs.net
By signing up you agree for your information to be stored and shared by the Training hub, with the Training Provider and with NHSE and HEE, for the delivery of this training, monitoring, reporting and certification purposes only.

Introduction to Immunisation and Vaccinations Training (Foundation)
2023-09-20 09:30 - 16:30 UTC
PLEASE NOTE DAY 1 IS TO COMPLETE ALL ELEARNING ELEMENTS PRIOR TO DAY 2.
Day 2 will be virtually on MS Teams (9:30am-16:30)
The Immunisation and Vaccination Foundation is a blended learning programme.
This is for those new to providing Immunisation and Vaccinations
This course does not cover anaphylaxis or basic life support. This must be completed separately.
NOTE – for Non Registered Healthcare Professionals – BEFORE BOOKING PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU – have achieved education and training to Level Three of the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF)4 or equivalent in England and Wales with at least 2 years’ experience as recommended in The National Minimum Standards. These Standards are intended to support and facilitate high quality, safe delivery of the influenza, shingles and/or pneumococcal vaccination programmes. See here advice for HCA I & V Training.
In line with the Public Health England (2018) Minimum Standards and Core Curriculum for Immunisation Training for Registered Healthcare Practitioners we have developed a blended approach of both an e learning and a face to face taught course which previously consisted of two full taught days. Those new to immunisation are required to receive comprehensive foundation immunisation training.

The programme web site is:– https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/immunisation/
The programme is free to access just register to use the e-lfh portal.

The course is designed around the updated National Minimum Standards and the competency assessment tool which must be undertaken in clinical practice following completion of the workshop. Please see the link below for a copy of the competency assessment tool for registered practitioners:

https://www.rcn.org.uk/professional-development/publications/pdf-006943

You will receive a certificate post training for your attendance. Places are limited, if you have booked a place, please ensure you attend.
If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place via Eventbrite. If you are struggling with booking or cancelling your place, please contact us on mbpcc.lscthub@nhs.net

Practice Managers Wellbeing Drop-in
2023-09-20 12:30 - 13:15 UTC
Are you a Practice Manager?
Do you want to network with other practice managers and share best practices for promoting wellbeing in Practice?
Take some time out of your role, for yours and your colleagues self care.
Come and join us for a 45 minute drop in session to share best practices and ask questions.
There will be opportunities to ask questions, get involved and be supported in this session.

Modern Slavery & People Trafficking Awareness Training (MS Teams)
2023-09-20 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
Available to Social Care staff working within the Lancashire and South Cumbria postcodes only:
Session Aims:To raise awareness in the care sector of Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking and understand your role and responsibilities in tackling modern slavery

To understand how you can contribute to fighting modern slavery in the UK
To understand what support is available for modern slavery victims

Method of learning Microsoft Teams 1 hours
The training is entirely online learning which is led by a tutor in real time. You will need access to a computer and internet during all the training, preferably the trainer will need to be able to see and hear from you as the training will be interactive.
Please Note

As spaces are limited, we request that you register a maximum of 2 staff from each care organisation.
If you have any questions regarding this training please email our inbox mbpcc.lscsocialcare@nhs.net
If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place via Eventbrite. If you are struggling with booking or cancelling your place, please contact us on mbpcc.lscsocialcare@nhs.net
No other participants can take part unless they are registered.
Whilst we understand it is not always possible it is preferred that each student is online on their own device, however if this is not possible and there is more than one person sharing the screen, then they must all make themselves aware to the tutor, as we are able to issue any certificates of completion if we do not have the details of all those on the training.
If those attending do not give the tutor their name, their place of work and their job role, then we will not be able to issue certificates to that person.

ACP Forum - Virtual Wards
2023-09-20 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London)
Want an update on ACP developments in your Lancashire and South Cumbria region and a place to share your ideas with ACP peers ?
Focus: Carrie Cobb – ‘virtual wards and how ACPs can refer into them ‘
Save the date! Join our ACP forum!

Cross-functional Leadership - NWLA
2023-09-21 10:00 - 11:00 UTC
North West Leadership (NWLA) – This eight-week programme is designed to support anyone involved in integrated working in Health and Social care. This programme will explore key tools on how to approach complex problems you may face, and how to communicate effectively as a leader.
Join the introductory session to find out more.

Cross Functional Leadership
2023-09-21 10:00 - 11:00 UTC
This eight-week programme will give you the tools to support integrated or interdisciplinary work.This programme features four sessions every fortnight over an eight-week cycle. The sessions include talking with experts, using a range of evidence, from insights to the big picture and communicating effectively across health and social care.Join our introductory session to explore more about the programme.
By attending this participants will be able to:

Gain new ways to identify the challenges of integrated working (working in multi-disciplinary teams or cross-sector collaborations);
Understand the type of conceptual thinking and changes in communication that can help them to tackle these challenges, in time-pressured contexts;
Practise applying at least one tool

If you decide the tools explored could be relevant to your context and work, then after this session there will be an opportunity to register for the full programme.

An Introduction to Cross-Functional Leadership / Integrating Perspectives
2023-09-21 10:00 - 11:30 UTC
By attending this event you will be able to:

Gain new ways to identify the challenges of integrated working (working in multi-disciplinary teams or cross-sector collaborations)
Understand the type of conceptual thinking and changes in communication that can help you to tackle these challenges, in time-pressured contexts
Practice applying at least one tool.

If you decide after the introduction session that the tools explored could be relevant to your context and work, then after this session there will be an opportunity to register for the full programme (further details below).
We would recommend you hold the dates of the workshops below until you decide if you would like to participant in the full programme. If you are unable to make the dates, you can register your interest here and we will notify you with new dates when they are available in the year.

Full Programme Overview
Following on from the Introductory session. The programme features four sessions hosted once a fortnight over an eight-week cycle. In the intervening weeks, participants will work to apply what they have learnt with support from a self-paced learning platform. Videos, recaps, and activities will help you to move from understanding a concept or tool to putting it into practice and getting feedback. The programme is designed for a time commitment of 2 hours per week.
The workshops focus on ideas that you can implement quickly to help with breaking down complex problems, effective planning and communication across siloes, and making use of different kinds of evidence and expertise.

Workshop 1 – Talking with Experts: Using what others know
Thursday 19th October, 10:00 – 11:30am
Integrated working brings together people with a range of extensive knowledge, skills and experience: different forms of expertise.
This session introduces tools that can be used to:

Diagnose the kinds of problems you are working on and how different kinds of expertise can help you
Understand the level of understanding you need to have about the expertise of others in your teams, organisations or systems
Communicate more effectively as a leader working with different kinds of experts and helping those experts work together.

Workshop 2 – Beyond What Works: Using a range of evidence
Thursday 2nd November, 10:00 – 11:30am
There are well-established ways to integrate certain kinds of evidence, such as randomised controlled trials about tried-and-tested interventions. In the context of complex challenges, uncertainty, or crisis, however, we often do not have the luxury of this kind of evidence.
This session introduces ways to access other forms of evidence, going beyond the ideas of ‘quantitative’ and ‘qualitative’, to more deeply understand different data sources and what they can tell us.

Workshop 3 – Seeing the Wood and the Trees: From insights to big picture
Thursday 16th November, 10:00 – 11:30am
Leaders can integrate perspective by working to both ‘see the big picture’ and have an eye for the important details: being able to ‘zoom in and zoom out’ on what is happening and what is needed.
This sessions introduces tools for working with abstraction and complexity to help to connect a birds-eye vision or strategy to more concrete details and evidence of change.

Workshop 4 – More than Words: Communicating effectively across health and social car
Thursday 30th November, 10:00 -11:30am
Working across teams, organisations or systems requires new ways to communicate about what we are doing that will make sense in different roles, contexts, and specialisms. The work we are trying to talk about and carry out can be very complex. This session demonstrates how different kinds of maps, metaphors and models can be used to help in this work and explain some of the principles of what makes a good representation or analogy.

Fire Safety in the Care Setting
2023-09-21 13:30 - 15:30 UTC
Fire Safety in the Care Setting with Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service
Available to Social Care staff working within the Lancashire and South Cumbria postcodes only.
Method of learning: Microsoft Teams
Contents of the training include

LFRS will share themes/learning from across Lancashire fire safety inspections
How providers should address this important element of running/delivering a care service
How fire safety fits in with the decision making/day to day activities.
What ‘Good’ looks like to LFRS
Common findings from Fire Safety Officer audits in residential care settings; highlighting the difference between purpose built and converted

The training is entirely online learning which is led by a tutor in real time. You will need access to a computer and internet during all the training, preferably the trainer will need to be able to see and hear from you as the training will be interactive.
NB As spaces are limited, we request that you register a maximum of 2 staff from each care organisation.
Please Note -ALL people attending the training are required to register, to enable us to issue any certificates.
