Leadership and Innovation in Healthcare

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of continuing your own professional development, developing others, and advancing your profession.
• Understand and apply the principles of teamwork, group and organisational dynamics and apply leadership and management theory to work within and lead multidisciplinary healthcare teams safely and effectively.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the key elements associated with service improvement and assess the value of a variety of tools and strategies for service improvement.
• Understand and apply the principles of ergonomics, human factors, and risk to support and promote safe improvements in healthcare practice and services.
• Analyse key theories of innovation and change management and identify and discuss key challenges in relation to the safe adoption of innovations, service redesign and improvement.

You will explore 5 broad overlapping themes which are interwoven during the delivery of the module: Leadership and teamwork: This theme will consider your role as a member of a team, and as a leader of teams. It will consider the role of organisational and group dynamics to understanding behaviour in healthcare teams. This will include models of teamwork, group formation, and team development, alongside consideration of how to build psychologically safe and effective working environments that promote creativity, innovation and team effectiveness. Change and innovation: This theme will consider innovation and change in the context of advancing healthcare delivery and ensuring sustainable, safe, and effective healthcare services. It will include an exploration of the context of innovation and changing including a consideration of the drivers of health policy in the UK and globally including political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal issues. It will include an introduction to relevant tools for strategic analysis and understanding the landscape of innovation. Service improvement: This theme will consider the importance of audit, service improvement and evaluation, in advancing and maintaining the quality of healthcare delivery. This will include an introduction to the commonly used tools of service improvement such as the model of improvement, process mapping and lean principles, as well as consideration of how improvement is commonly measured. Ergonomics, risk and human factors: This theme will equip you to apply a systems approach when considering quality and safety of health care. Rooted in the prinicples of human factors, it will consider the importance of a safety culture, the role of technology in achieving safe care, and occupational fatigue, as well as the relevance of duty of candour. It will include a reflection on why the most applied approach in the NHS - learning from incidents - does often not lead to a safer system Continuous professional development and clinical education: This theme will consider the importance of personal continuous professional development, the educational needs and development of others within the multidisciplinary team, and the continuous development of students respective professions. This will include consideration of how common approaches to clinical education and professional development can be used to support your development, the development of others, and the development of your respective professions.

During this module you will have the opportunity to experience: (a) lectures and seminars that will be delivered online and offline. (b) group work (c) opportunity to critically analyse case studies relevant to the modules five core themes. (d) online self directed bitesized learning content composed of essential and enrichment material to help you further consolidate your knowledge of the five core themes. (e) guided further reading

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Case study

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment:
• Group Work: Yes

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.