Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children

1.1 Review the range of groups and individuals whose communication needs must be addressed in own job role

EDI Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young

Unit Title: 521 Facilitate and development of effective group practice in health and social care or children and young people’s setting

CACHE Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (England)

Task D Presentation or report Prepare a presentation or report on an issue or area of public concern related to the care profession. Your presentation or report should include: • • • • A description of the issue or area of public concern raised An outline of the different points of view regarding the issue or area of public concern raised A description of how the issue or area of public concern has affected service provision and methods of working A description of how public opinion is affected by issues and areas of concern in either the health, social care or children’s and young people's sectors

Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health & Social Care and Children & Young People’s Services - Adults Pathway

This reflective essay is based on the personal SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats) analysis, to examine my leadership potential. It will define leadership within context of the NHS leadership as well as highlight some of the current incidents relate to poor leadership. Additionally, it will briefly discuss some of the relevant leadership theories that can be applied to nursing practice whilst exploring my own leadership style. Lastly, this essay will reflect the scenario from practice to support my “strengths” and “weakness” whilst developing a SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-Bound) goal plan to address one of my weakness and then the conclusion will be drawn summarising the key points within the essay.

Relevant to Unit 511 in the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership in Health & Social Care Services

Working in the health care environment the world needs effective, wise and visionary leaders, leadership matters in every organisation to change the health care environment so it may continue to grow to ensure it gives us better evidence based practice (Evans & M.L, 2015, p 34-50). All health care professionals are required at some point in their position to engage in management or leadership. As an AIN, EN or RN they all have a responsibility to educate, lead and manage within the health care profession (Innis & Berta, 2016, p.2-22). This allows each individual to develop useful and excellent leadership skills and management strategies to be able to educate and lead an exceptional team (Innis & Berta, 2016, p. 2-22). Although our greatest

The Trust to which I am currently employed, in the capacity of the Think family lead is part of a large mental health care Trust. There are six single sex acute inpatient wards for male and female. The main responsibility of my manager as director is to promote and lead the Trust’s vision and mission. The Think family lead is part of the senior management structure and is essential to the provision of leadership at the community, hospital managerial and leadership levels.

The National Health Service (NHS) should be providing a high standard of care, with a work force that can handle continuous change. To accomplish this, the NHS needs to have health care professionals who can implement leadership skills and become role models for others (Oliver, 2006). Mohoney (2001) states that ‘the development of future nurse leaders is one of the biggest challenges faced by the nursing profession’. Nurse leaders have extra responsibility to facilitate action, to implement and devise the appropriate change strategies needed to increase clinical excellence, quality, value and access to a patient-centred care environments (O 'Grady, 2011). This essay will explore the principles of leadership and change management skills implemented by the Inpatient Diabetic Specialist Nurse in the placement situation.

1. A description of the public health leadership problem and why it is a problem.

The objective of this paper is to identify the various difficulties that arise at my work environment and how it relates to the previous leadership style. This paper will first discuss the possible staff related causes of increase in incidence reporting in the ward. It will be followed by a focus group discussion on inter-staff issues and their perception towards current leadership in the ward. I will then analyse the different leadership approaches and examine how it affects work ethics and quality of care in my ward. For this, review of literature on various types of leadership and its impact on staff performance will be carried out. Finally, strategies to improve the current work culture will be explored and discussed.

The developing world faces many critical health challenges. Addressing the multitude of concerns regarding health delivery can seem overwhelming, and it is critical that the national leadership is able to define specific goals to improve the healthcare infrastructure of these nations and devise targeted solutions. According to the article "Attracting and Retaining Nurse Tutors in Malawi," the nursing profession in Malawi faces a critical shortage of nurse technicians, at a rate of up to 80 percent in certain areas (Caffrey & Frelick 2006:1). The problems in Malawi lay in the willingness of students to enter the profession as well as a shortage of educators. Without nurse tutors to train nurse technicians, it will be a struggle to provide the countryside with needed health services in the future.

Gamble and Vaux (2014) in their clinical medicine, came up the idea that there are two type of leadership, ‘Leaders with a big ‘L’’, this is the top level leaders like the CEO’s and Leaders with a small ‘l’, the leaders with a small l is the day to day leadership which focuses on day-to-day leadership of our teams, wards, units and departments. Understanding the roles of these leaders will help organisation that are entering into the global market to better understand the leadership style that will be most successful to the organisation.