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Programmes
These are programmes that may be relevant to you in your development journey.
Develop new skills and discover new ways to improve your experience of work with short guides developed by experts. Open to anyone in health and care.
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the stark differences experienced by people working in the NHS and those receiving health and care services. Inequality is at its root. Being able to understand the inequality challenges faced by others brings out leadership strength and improves quality of care for all.
That’s why we’ve developed our EDI programme – strategic support to equip and enable healthcare leaders to tackle inequalities. We work with you to realise equitable outcomes for patients and service users, and to move towards workforce equality.
Offering practical guidance, insightful resources and unrivalled opportunities to connect and network, we support you to promote inclusive leadership capability, have confidence in those with lived experience, and to develop your people and leadership pipeline for the future.
The Foundations in System Leadership; collaborating for health and care programme is open to all colleagues working in health, care, local authorities and voluntary sector partnerships, who have a desire to improve the way they collaborate across organisational, professional and hierarchical boundaries to design and deliver better health outcomes for the communities they serve.
The Covid-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressures on the health and social care workforce and is now compounding longstanding inequalities and challenges among staff. The role of a manager and leader in protecting, supporting and promoting the health and wellbeing of staff has, therefore, never been more necessary and urgent.
In our free, online, three-week course you’ll develop your understanding of your own health and wellbeing and learn to better lead and support your colleagues, team and organisation.
Organisations
These are organisations that may have resources or opportunities that are relevant to you in your development journey.
Academi Wales delivers a wide range of leadership and management development across the public service in Wales. Across the website you will find a range of learning resources, courses and events and networks aimed at leaders and managers.
Lots of our resources are available to the public, however there is some exclusive content that is only available to members.
The Intensive Learning Academies (ILAs) are based across prestigious Welsh universities and are helping to transform the delivery of health and social care across the globe.
They are helping to create the next generation of innovative, global leaders in health and social care. These world-leading academies are not only delivering academic and executive education courses, but they are also offering research and bespoke consultancy services to support individual organisations in the adoption and delivery of meaningful innovation across health and social care.
Health Education and Improvement Wales are the regional hub for Wales providing free memberships for Health and Social care staff all across Wales.
The Institute of Health & Social Care Management (IHSCM) is an Institute, approved in company law, with membership open to leaders, managers and administrators working in health and social care.
IHSCM are the leading independent membership organisation for managers and leaders planning, delivering and supporting health and care in the UK and across the world, supporting personal and professional development and driving change to improve health and well-being for all through quality management.
Their diverse and inclusive membership includes managers from the NHS, social care, public health, private sector, military, charity and voluntary sectors, as well as a thriving overseas representation – across all management levels and disciplines.
The NHS Leadership Academy aims to help everyone in the NHS discover their full leadership potential and achieve the highest standards in health and care. Their portal gives access to a wide range of leadership programmes, lifelong learning and talent scheme offers.
Produced by The Open University, a world leader in open and distance learning, all OpenLearn courses are free to study. Open Learn offers nearly 1000 free courses across 8 different subject areas, available to start right away.
The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve health and care in England.
The King's Fund aims to be a catalyst for change and to inspire improvements in health and care by:
- generating and sharing ideas and evidence
- offering rigorous analysis and independent challenge
- bringing people together to discuss, share and learn
- supporting and developing people, teams and organisations
- helping people to make sense of the health and care system
The King's Fund work involves understanding developments, challenges and opportunities across health and care. They use this understanding to influence policy and practice and to help people navigate the complexity of the systems in which they operate.
The King's Fund understand that our vision can only be achieved through collective action involving many organisations and sectors. They seek to collaborate with and learn from a broad range of partners – including local and national NHS organisations, local government, people using health and care services, the voluntary and community sectors and others – working together to achieve our goals.
Wales Union Learning Fund (WULF) is an opportunity for you to learn through your union. Courses can take place from home, at work or in a college. You can even aim to study with a University.
The WULF is provided by Welsh Government to help support union led adult learning in the workplace.
All Welsh workers have the opportunity to access the fund to take advantage of the support, advice and guidance and training offers provided through WULF projects.
Although WULF cannot fund University degree courses, learning such as Access courses can be supported.
