Leadership Programme FAQs

The Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) supports and develops nurses and midwives as leaders, to promote health, improve care and save lives across the world. As a UK-based charity, we are working with nurses and midwives at every level of their career and across all health and care sectors. To read more about FNF and what we do, please see our About Us page here. 

At FNF, our core mission, and charitable objectives, are specifically about supporting registered nurses and midwives. We do provide some programmes that can be accessed by other healthcare professions (for example, our online programme for Healthcare Support Workers here). 

Please visit our website to discover the leadership programmes that are currently open for individual booking/application, or that are coming soon (including our scholarships). Programmes For Individuals – Florence Nightingale Foundation

You will find further information on each programme page on: 

• Delivery dates 

• Programme structure 

• Mode of delivery 

• Who they are suitable for 

• Eligibility criteria 

• How to apply or to book your place. 

We also work with organisations to commission group programmes for their workforce. You can speak with your line manager to find out if this is something your employer would be able to do. More information on this is on our website .  

Please visit our website to discover the leadership programmes that are currently open for individual booking/application, or that are coming soon (including our scholarships). Programmes For Individuals – Florence Nightingale Foundation

You will find further information on each programme page on: 

• Delivery dates 

• Programme structure 

• Mode of delivery 

• Who they are suitable for 

• Eligibility criteria 

• How to apply or to book your place. 

We also work with organisations to commission group programmes for their workforce. You can speak with your line manager to find out if this is something your employer would be able to do. More information on this is on our website .  

The details of this vary for each programme and can be found on the individual programme page  Programmes For Individuals – Florence Nightingale Foundation Some programmes, usually sponsored ones, have set application deadlines. Some, our ‘open’ programmes, we review and accept on a first come first served basis. Once these latter are full up then we usually open new programme dates.

We require you to add your professional regulator’s pin number to the application form.

In general, we can’t make changes once your booking or application has been submitted. If you need to add a missing document or something significant has changed, please contact academy@florence-nightingale-foundation.org.uk.

Please check the following steps have been followed. If any of the below is incorrect, this can lead to this error.  

• Make sure all mandatory fields are filled in.  
• Make sure all phone number fields are filled in with the correct format. Do not include any spaces in the numbers.  
• Do not copy and paste text from Word. If you want to copy and paste, paste in to Notepad first, then into the form fields, rather than Word.  
• Try to submit from a home device and wifi rather than your workplace network device/wifi.  

 If you continue to still get the error message, please let us know at [email protected]  with ‘Technical problems with my application form’ in the Subject. In your email please include a screenshot of any error message, with details of your device and network. 

We have a number of programmes open for individual booking where CPD budget, or equivalent, can be used. Your employee would book the programme themselves and, as part of this, is asked for details of where the invoice should sent. You can view our current programmes here: Programmes For Individuals – Florence Nightingale Foundation.

If you want to commission a leadership development course for a group of your workforce (whether face-to-face, online or hybrid) then please visit our website to find out more: Programmes For Your Workforce – Florence Nightingale Foundation.

By accepting a place on a programme, you are agreeing to attend all required dates as outlined in the programme advertisement and we would expect you to attend all modules in order to complete the programme. If you have exceptional circumstances that prevent you from attending then please let us know at [email protected]  with ‘Problem attending part of my programme’ in the Subject line.

Once we have accepted your booking, or your application has been successful, we will let you know by email, at the latest 6-8 weeks before the programme starts, in most cases before. The dates, mode of delivery (eg virtual, face-to-face) and venue will have been outlined on the programme page on our website when advertised. Further details will be sent by email prior to the programme starting.

Each of our programmes have different content and costs, some are sponsored and some can be paid for using your CPD, or equivalent, funding. You can check the details of the individual programme for information on this and on what is included. Please note that travel and related costs are not included within programme costs. If you are unsure on any details, please do contact us at [email protected]. 

When you complete a programme we will provide a certificate confirming your participation and stating the number of hours of professional learning and development activities completed. This can be submitted as evidence of continuing professional development. Our programmes do not carry academic credits.

This depends on the type of programme and deadline for applications. Please see the programme page for details.

We will always strive to meet your accessibility or dietary requirements (where applicable). There is space on the booking or application form to explain your needs – and also on the joining instructions once your placement has been confirmed.

On completing the booking form you will be asked for information for invoicing, including the name and email address of the person that will be responsible for paying the invoice. We will then confirm placement and raise invoice for payment, which will be sent to the contact details you provided.

You will need to complete the evaluation of your programme to be sent the certificate. Evaluation links will be share on programme completion on the Learning Hub page If you have lost your evaluation link, or have already completed this but not received the certificate yet, please just let us know at [email protected] with ‘Evaluation link to get certificate’ in the Subject line.

If you have already been accepted onto a programme with FNF then you can log in using the email address you provided when applying as a username. If you are logging in for the first time, you will need to reset your password, either with the link sent out to you with joining instructions (check your junk if you haven’t received it – it will have come from acade[email protected]) or by clicking ‘forgot my password’ (check your junk emails again – password reset emails come from [email protected].)

Please contact [email protected] if you are having any technical issues with the Learning Hub, with ‘Problem accessing my programme on the Learning Hub’ in the Subject line. In your email please include a screenshot of any error message or similar. 

If you have not yet been accepted onto a programme with FNF then you will not have an account on the Learning Hub and will not be able to log in.  

To access the Members portal page, please use your organisation’s member password on the Membership page. This does not require an individual log in to access. You may wish to check our current list of existing members here to check if your organisation is already listed with us: Current FNF Members – Florence Nightingale Foundation If you do not know the password please contact your line manager. If they don’t know it please get in touch with [email protected] – with ‘Password reminder for Member portal’ as the subject and stating which organsiation you work for. 

This varies depending on the programme and what materials were provided. Details will be on your Learning Hub.

Please let us know at [email protected] and we will update your details.

You can see a summary of our FNF Academy membership benefits here: Membership – Florence Nightingale Foundation. Your organisation’s Chief Nurse would join as a member, with benefits for the wider workforce. Please contact [email protected] to find out more.  

You can check our current list of existing members to find out if your organisation is already a member: Current FNF Members – Florence Nightingale Foundation.

Our Fellows leadership programme is open to those working with an FNF Academy member. The member (usually the CNO) nominates one person to be a Fellow each year, and we are in touch with more details when nominations open.

The service takes place in May each year, please keep an eye on our website for specific FAQs related to the service nearer the time. You can sign up to our newsletter where you will be the first to hear news and updates, and/or follow us on social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky or X).

We are unable to offer grants or funding for any leadership programmes, whether FNF or other. 

Please note that some of our leadership programmes are sponsored externally and there is no charge for individuals participating in those programmes. You can find that out on our programme page here: Programmes For Individuals – Florence Nightingale Foundation.