Thursday 11 April 2024 | 13:15–14:30

Format: Workshop

Stream: Leading

Content filters: Co-presented with patients, service users or carers

Jamie Smyth London Borough of Southwark, England (Chair)

Maja Troj Larsen Students for Quality and Safety, Denmark (Chair)

PART 1: Making room at the table: engaging the next generation of clinical leaders

How does early exposure to senior leadership opportunities inspire the next generation of clinical leaders, and how can we facilitate access to these opportunities in a busy, stretched healthcare system?

Using examples, we will show how UK leadership fellowships have contributed to national level projects, driving system-wide change, and helping to build skills that fellows then take back to their clinical healthcare teams. We want to start the conversation on how we support early career leadership development, share best practice, and encourage the development of future leaders around the world to improve the care we give to our patients.

As a result of this session, participants will be able to:

• Learn how UK fellowships have facilitated early career leadership opportunities


• See how these opportunities can benefit healthcare teams and patients


• Understand ways to establish and develop opportunities for early career leadership development in their own healthcare systems

Rachel Rajadurai Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, England

Tom Hine-Thomas Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, England

 

PART 2: Building leaders together: 10 years of shared learning through multi-professional fellowship

The Welsh Clinical Leadership Fellowship is a unique programme bringing together future health leaders from across the breadth of the NHS to train and work collaboratively, learning how to drive positive change within their own fields of practice and the wider health services. In this session, the 10th cohort of fellows will discuss the value of multi-professional training in the leadership sphere, and how learning collaboratively is a powerful strategy for building strong relationships between professions and better health outcomes for patients. The fellows will be joined by the Programme Director and Leadership Development Manager to discuss the practical aspects of developing and overseeing a truly multi-professional leadership training programme.

As a result of this session, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the value of multi-professional leadership training within the health sector, and the benefits for patient outcomes


• Understand how the Welsh Clinical Leadership Fellowship programme has transformed since its inception over a decade ago


• Consider how multi-professional training could be beneficial in your organisation

Alexandra Rawlins Health Education & Improvement Wales, Wales

 

PART 3: Committing to better healthcare through enhanced trainee leadership development opportunities

This session will outline the crucial need to recognise more and invest inclusively in the talents of early career healthcare professional leadership through the evidence base, including triangulation research undertaken by the FMLM Trainee Steering Group (TSG). It will explore how this can be done feasibly in a measurable way through workplaces implementing the TSG’s Leadership Commitment collaboratively. This interactive session will also cover how adoption can be further enriched through including other healthcare professionals and patients, adapted to different workplace environments. Attendees will be enabled to contribute to shaping how the Leadership Commitment could maximise the value of early career healthcare professional leadership with relevance to their organisation/s.

As a result of this session, participants will be able to:

• Understand the value early career healthcare professional leadership has within the healthcare system


• Gain a greater appreciation of the challenges for early year healthcare leaders in accessing leadership development opportunities from the leader and employer perspectives


• Understand how practical and high value changes can be feasibly introduced within healthcare 

Hannah Baird Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, UK

Josie Cheetham Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, UK