The Florence Nightingale Foundation is pleased to partner with The Mary Seacole Trust to provide a leadership development opportunity to nurses, midwives and health visitors who are working to improve health inequalities, particularly in global majority communities. 

This programme is open to all nurses and midwives from a global majority background working within the NHS and independent providers who are contracted to provide NHS services. 

Funded by NHS England, this bespoke development programme will involve undertaking a leadership development programme, which includes a quality improvement (QI) project. The project will focus on enhancing the experience of people from global majority communities accessing health services through addressing health inequalities. Participants will also be allocated a mentor for support and guidance.

Mary Seacole was a British-Jamaican nurse and businesswoman who set up the British Hotel behind the lines during the Crimean War. She displayed compassion, skill and bravery while nursing soldiers during the Crimean War. The programme is intended to celebrate the life of Mary Seacole while underpinning the values by which she lived and worked.

PLEASE NOTE: Places are fully funded by NHS England, however participants will need to fund their own travel to any face-to-face sessions. The programme will consists of two cohorts, and will be implemented in seven days over nine months (with additional days for the QI project) supported by the following leadership development elements:

• Demonstrate enhanced awareness of how personality preferences influence personal effectiveness and performance in teams.
• Identify and critically appraise opportunities to influence through personal and collective authority.
• Develop strategies to express self in a manner which communicates presence, enables influence and has impact.
• Explore personal resilience and develop tools for staying effective under pressure.
• Develop own personal approach to leadership – exploring values, biases, blind spots, and attitude to diversity.
• Formulate and put into practice plans which contribute to improved outcomes for people from the global majority underpinned by evidence and quality improvement methodology.

Read some of the feedback from previous programme participants here.

‘The Mary Seacole Trust are so incredibly proud to be a partner in delivering this wonderfully inspirational programme. It is a pleasure to hear from nurses and midwives who are not just dedicated to self-development and becoming future leaders; they are also change-makers.’ Trevor Sterling, Chair of the Trustees, Mary Seacole Trust