Foundations in System Leadership: Collaborating for Health and Care

This course is designed for anyone working in care and health with a desire to improve the way they collaborate across sectoral, organisational, hierarchical, and professional boundaries. Primarily aimed at those working in health and care, it will be ideal for you if:

• You’re already working across systems either formally or informally and you’d like to increase your impact
• You’re intellectually convinced that systems leadership is the way forward and you want to increase your ability to actually do it
• You’ve heard the terms ‘systems leadership’ or ‘systems thinking’ and you want to understand more about what they mean and how you can use them in your context
• You’re not familiar with the concept of systems leadership but you’re passionate about improving health and wellbeing outcomes for your local population and you’re curious about any new approaches that will help you
• You’re increasingly frustrated with how fragmentation, duplication and reactive service

On this five-week course from the NHS Leadership Academy, you’ll explore systems leadership, learn why it’s important in health and care, and develop new capabilities to implement it. You will also recognise where you may already be operating as a systems leader while developing new approaches.

A free upgrade is available for NHS staff who register for the course using the above link.The upgrade means that you’ll receive a certificate of completion as well as unlimited access to the course sessions and materials.