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Online Leadership Programme Open for Commissions

We are delighted to offer a new opportunity for your internationally educated nurses and midwives, whether in the NHS, social care or private healthcare, to join our interactive online leadership programme.

Support Your Workforce

IENMs (Internationally Educated Nurses and Midwives) are a source of enormous talent and expertise for our health and care services. Supporting and developing their leadership potential offers significant benefits for services and patient outcomes.

Participants of this online programme will get the chance to develop their own authentic leadership style and to enhance their skills; enabling them to improve their service and boost their career opportunities.

The course consists of 30-40 hours of self-directed study over four months with four interactive facilitated webinar sessions.

Email us to find out more about the modules below and book places for you or your workforce.

Hear directly from a number of previous programme participants in this recent Nursing Standard article

Learning Outcomes

  • Ability to lead with greater presence and personal impact.
  • Clearer identification of personal leadership style.
  • Improved confidence in speaking up.
  • Ability to understand and lead quality improvement.
  • Confidence and understanding of how to progress your career.
A nurse standing in Westminster Abbey in Uniform.

Testimonial

For globally educated colleagues, being offered opportunities such as the programme, facilitates their realisation of their leadership capability and provides them with the tools to enhance and hone. It is vital that these talents amongst our IENMs are nurtured and enriched here as they become a huge part of our present and, most importantly, future workforce. This is the possibility the programme presents.

Lindy P Garrucho, Senior Clinical Educator, International Nursing, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Programme Structure

The online programme will be undertaken over 4 months. It includes 5 modules which will be opened up one by one for participants to work through at their own pace, meaning they can fit their learning around work and other commitments.

We estimate participants will need around 30-40 hours to complete the course content in total. They will work through some modules quicker than others but will gain more from the programme by reflecting on what they have learned from each.

The online learning has end-of-chapter quizzes but there are no long form essays or projects to complete.

Participants will be able to interact with fellow participants via various online opportunities throughout the course. This will include an interactive webinar with expert facilitators and nursing and midwifery leaders at the end of modules 2-5.

Programme Modules

 

Module 1

Personality Preferences and Performance in Teams

Online learning – Utilising Myer Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) we will explore how personality preference influence personal leadership styles and how awareness can enable the promotion of high performing teams.

Learning Outcomes

  • Establish individual cohort learning communities.
  • Introduce concept of self and impact of self on others through the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
  • Explore the MBTI preference pairs and apply concepts to self through a range of experiential learning exercises.
  • Consider the outcome of your MBTI self-assessment and questionnaire to identify areas for personal and team development.

 

Module 2

Principles and Practice of Quality Improvement

Online learning – An introduction to QI including approaches to leading change management and measuring impact.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand what is meant by Quality Improvement (QI) and how it applies to your individual practice.
  • Understand how QI can be used to help influence changes for continual improvements to care and experience.
  • Be familiar with the Model for Improvement and how to use it as a framework to make effective change.
  • Have worked through an example of how QI can be used in day-to-day practice in health and care.
  • Be confident to identify and address an opportunity for improvement in your own workplace.
  • Live webinar at the end of Module 2.

 

Module 3

Leading with Presence & Impact

Online learning – Practical approaches to developing confidence and clarity in the delivery of key messages for a range of audiences. Led by RADA Business.

Learning Outcomes

  • Self-awareness of individual body, breath and vocal habits and how this effects communicative impact.
  • Learning how to manage nerves, imposter syndrome and workplace anxieties to communicate with impact, clarity and influence in all situations.
  • Understanding of the physiology of communication, experiential practice, and clarity as to how to establish and enhance skills.
  • Building confidence through sharing and problem-solving challenging behaviours that emerge within the workplace.
  • Live webinar at the end of Module 3.

 

Module 4

Using your Authority and Influencing Change

Online learning – Development of leadership attributes which enable influence from ward to board. Specific consideration will be given to exploring the sphere of your authority and leading upwards.

Learning Outcomes (subject to change)

  • Be familiar with the Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle and have used its structure to keep reflective notes in your learning journal.
  • Experimented in real life situations with your personal authority to influence and manage change.
  • Developed skills in self-confidence; political and emotional intelligence; assertiveness; and managing change.
  • Evaluated your personal authority and personal power by recording examples of your experiments of using these behaviours in your learning journal.
  • Live webinar at the end of Module 4.

 

Module 5

An Introduction to Co-consulting

Online learning – Promoting psychological safety in organisations and teams. To explore the theory and evidence that underpins co-consulting as an effective method of peer coaching.

Learning Outcomes

  • Learning how to work in a small group with colleagues, and through a structured questioning / listening approach, effectively work on real problems being faced.
  • Developing individuals’ learning experience, so personal awareness of potential changed behaviours that may be possible in tackling problems, is increased.
  • Increasing individuals’ understanding of personal effectiveness and personal power.
  • Live webinar at the end of Module 5.

 

Celebration event

Virtual celebration event to conclude the programme.

Next Programme Dates

Our next programme runs from March to June 2025 and then October 2025 to January 2026.

Cost

£350 per person.

For bookings from organisations employing internationally educated workforce (NHS, social care or private healthcare), NOT individual nurses or midwives.

20 places minimum per booking.

To book places or to find out more please email us.

Eligibility Criteria

Once you have booked places for your workforce we will be in touch with you to get participant details (names and email addresses) to register them on our online portal. To join the programme participants must:

  • Have gained their primary nursing or midwifery qualification outside the UK.
  • Be a registered nurse or midwife with the NMC.
  • Be practicing in the UK.

Programme Dates: Spring 2025

4 March

Course open

Course open

25 March

Webinar 1

Webinar 1

30 April

Webinar 2

Webinar 2

29 May

Webinar 3

Webinar 3

26 June

Webinar 4 and Course close

Webinar 4 and Course close

Programme Dates: Autumn 2025

6 October

Course open

Course open

30 October

Webinar

Webinar 1

27 November

Webinar

Webinar 2

16 December

Webinar

Webinar 3

29 January 2026

Webinar and Course close

Webinar 4 and Course close

Book Places for Your Workforce

To book places (minimum 20) or to find out more please email us.