Leadership in Social Care
Current Leadership Offers and Opportunities
Institute for Health and Social Care Management Membership
Exciting news! Lancashire and South Cumbria Health & Care Partnership has paid for membership for all social care managers, deputies and senior leaders to be part of the Institute of Health and Social Care Management.
We recognise in feedback from social care providers the need for leadership development and peer networks and therefore have joined with IHSCM to deliver a training and networking opportunity not to be missed. There are many courses available in leadership, mentoring, communications, coaching, etc and many more in development – all CPD accredited and for social care leaders.
The IHSCM is also recognised for leading on social care initiatives and bringing solutions for social care to influence national priorities through delivering special interest groups, the People Plan for Social Care and the #Greenheartforsocialcare campaign.
For more info please email: mbpcc.lscsocialcare@nhs.net
Skills for Care
Visit the skills for care website Home – Skills for Care
Skills for Care work across the whole system to understand the key drivers of workforce change using insight, data and evidence. They provide managers and those involved in the delivery of social care with guidance on best practice, tools, resources and intelligence to support workforce recruitment, capabilities, and culture. This combination of strategic and operational activity is the cornerstone of our reach and insight into the sector.
Further Information and Resources
The Caring View
The Caring View is a weekly social care chatshow that addresses all things social care and a few things that aren’t. Hosted by the inspiring industry leaders, Adam Purnell and Mark Topps, the show provides varied views and opinions on a sector that does not get a large enough media platform. Click here for more details.
Link here to the Caring View’s guides to CQC Single Assessment Framework:
CQC Single Assessment Framework
The Outstanding Society
The Outstanding Society’s primary purpose is to serve as a platform for sharing and celebrating best practices in social care while supporting others to enhance standards and elevate the visibility of the sector.
The collective goal is to offer complimentary memberships, providing unrestricted access to virtual events, newsletters, podcasts, and an array of valuable resources. This initiative strives to create an inclusive platform, ensuring that everyone can access information, celebrate innovation, and exchange invaluable best practices.
Helping everyone achieve outstanding care together
The Outstanding Society – Social Care in England & Wales
Lead to Succeed
Lead to succeed is a practical learning programme aimed at aspiring managers and deputies in adult social care services.
The programme is delivered through five interactive modules covering the objectives below:
- Successful behaviours for leaders and managers
- Developing a positive culture
- Effective supervision
- Leading and managing the process of change
- Leading and managing the inspection process.
Lead to succeed is at the forefront of the more formal development of aspiring new managers and deputies. This learning programme will help individuals to develop their leadership and management potential, gain knowledge and be supported and challenged to put this into practice. We’ve received overwhelming feedback about the difference it can make.
Unlike undertaking formal qualifications, which can often feel like a solitary process, Lead to succeed connects aspiring managers with their peers.
Learners completing Lead to succeed will understand how successful behaviours and practical strategies can support them in their day-to-day work. They will be challenged to put these into practice, boosting their capacity to lead and manage effectively.
The programme includes an emphasis on reflection, helping individuals to learn from their
day-to-day experiences and think about how they can do things differently or get better at
recognising what they do well.
This learning programme is exclusively available from a number of Skills for Care’s endorsed learning providers
Yes, adult social care employers in England can claim up to £500 per staff member on completion of Lead to succeed. Read more about Skills for Care’s Workforce Development Fund here.
The five days are usually delivered over a three-month period, enabling the learning from each day to be put into practice between sessions.
The programme can be delivered flexibly over five days of normal business working hours, or 10 half days, or a different pattern appropriate to delivery choice and/or audience.
Learners are expected to attend each of the five learning and development modules that make up the programme and will only be able to receive a certificate of completion if they have participated in all five modules.
For further information please contact us on mbpcc.lscsocialcare@nhs.net
The resource, Applying for health and social care jobs in the UK from abroad, has now been published by the Department of Health and Social Care. The guidance and accompanying leaflets for download are available here. (Website link) Applying for health and social care jobs in the UK from abroad – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)