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We are here to support nurses and midwives when they need us the most. Our Nightingale Frontline® Leadership Support Service is an online, peer support service that provides a psychological safe space to explore professional and personal challenges within your organisation.

Our session facilitators create a secure and confidential environment for staff of all levels to come together to decompress and reflect on leadership challenges. Using a group coaching model known as co-consulting, groups of three to six work with one of our expert facilitators to develop vital leadership skills to support themselves and their colleagues.

Nightingale Frontline® launched in April 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to provide a support service for nurses and midwives across the UK. At that time, our goal was to provide emotional well-being support for all nurses and midwives as they battled the unprecedented demands of the pandemic on a daily basis.

Today the service remains in very high demand as our nurses and midwives continue to manage the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic across health and social care, as well as ongoing challenges of seasonal pressures and staff shortages.

To date, FNF have supported over 3,500 participants across the health, social care and the voluntary sector. Attendees have found real value in working through leadership challenges alongside peers, and learning new approaches to difficult situations. During a time of constant change attendees have welcomed the calm and supportive environment.

If your organisation or Trust is interested in accessing the Nightingale Frontline® Leadership Support Service, the cost is £5,000 for 30 places. FNF Academy member organisations benefit from a 10% discount on the cost.

We offer you a completely bespoke session for your organisation’s midwives and nurses. With your purchased 30 spaces you can book your sessions which are for a maximum of six participants. They are available from 9am to 5pm from Monday to Friday, every week of the year. Sessions last between 90 minutes and 3 hours. Sessions are completely confidential so employers will not receive any feedback about conversations that take place. It is a safe space for open discourse. No identifiable data is sent and no additional information is shared with the employer.

Please contact our Frontline Coordinator to find out more and book a session.

And finally…

Have you tried the Shinymind app?

If you are an NHS nurse, midwife, nursing associate or healthcare support worker in England you can help support your mental health and well-being by downloading the nursing version of the ShinyMind app here for free.

"The FNF frontline leadership session provided me with much-needed support at a time of uncertainty while being newly qualified. It was also a brilliant opportunity to connect with people all over the UK in similar roles, seek peer support, gain new ideas and coping strategies."

"Leading others with confidence and courage can also feel lonely and overwhelming. Let’s use the extraordinary place we find ourselves in as a profession to learn, develop and support each other."

"I participated in one of the leadership support sessions in the middle of the pandemic and before I joined the session I was feeling quite lost, searching for the kind of structure that I am used to when commencing a new clinical placement. The support session enabled me to voice my worries and concerns about my current situation, and figure out a way forward. "

"I am delighted to support this Florence Nightingale Foundation initiative funded by NHS Charities Together. Nurses and Midwives are facing the biggest leadership challenge of their lives and this support service will provide them with a precious and safe space for reflection and peer support. We are committed to look after our NHS leaders and we thank this partnership to support our extraordinary professions"

"Never in a lifetime has visible and authentic nurse leadership been more vital than now, where nurses everyday are facing ethical, moral and practice dilemmas. In order to lead and continue to care for our patients, staff and their families leaders must too have time and a safe space to reflect and share experiences' Effective leadership equals not only happy staff but safe care for our patients."

"The session was incredibly useful to listen to the challenges that colleagues across the country are facing. The small size of the group was especially appealing to me and I felt that I was able to contribute effectively. The group was very balanced and supportive and the facilitator was reassuringly experienced and sensitive to the people in the group, skilfully drawing out the primary issues and supporting solutions."

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