Leadership & Development

The Leadership Development team aims to uplift the capability of our leaders and create positive continuous cultural and behavioural change. The team ultimately looks to enhance patient and employee experiences by supporting our leaders to deliver against the NHS People Plan objectives. Fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging is a thread that runs through the team’s work as we strive to deliver inclusive leadership development interventions that reach a diverse cross-section of the workforce.

If you want to feel more able to deal with the daily challenges of working in healthcare, better equipped to care for patients, lead services and provide leadership for those around you – supporting them to do their job better – the Edward Jenner programme is for you.

The Mary Seacole programme is a six month leadership development programme which was designed by the NHS Leadership Academy in partnership with global experts, Korn Ferry Hay Group, to develop knowledge and skills in leadership and management.

The NHS Leadership Academy has developed leadership programmes aimed at first time, middle and senior leaders which have been purposefully designed to be self-directed, flexible, grounded in reality and applied in the workplace so align perfectly to apprenticeships.

PMA Apprenticeships are an ideal way to enhance skills and knowledge to further your career or develop your own teams. Apprenticeships are a key way to recruit, develop and retain new and established teams.

Management and Leadership qualifications can be studied in a variety of formats, delivered by our Approved Centres across the nation.
Find the right fit for you by job role below, or browse our full list of qualifications in our qualification library.

Join the thousands of other people who enhanced their performance with an ILM qualification last year, and fast-track your way to the top with our leadership and management qualifications. Ranging from Levels 2 to 7, our qualifications cater to all levels of management and offer a clear route to career progression.

The Leadership Learning Zone is a flexible e-learning resource that takes a learner on an interactive exploration of key areas of leadership development. This suite of introductory modules developed by the Midlands Leadership Academy is equally relevant to learners who are just starting in their careers as well as experienced managers who want to consolidate their leadership capabilities.

Cambs LMC represents, supports, and advises local practices. We can now offer our guidance more widely to practice staff and GPs across the country looking to refresh or upskill essential knowledge to ensure their businesses are better placed to tackle the challenges of general practice today.

We offer subject-matter experts with current working in-depth knowledge of general practice business. Each Business Bitesize session will be delivered online, live, with the opportunity to raise questions and contribute to the interactive session.

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 fully funded Higher Development Award (HDA) is a personal development programme which enables clinical and non-clinical support workers to build knowledge and skills to support career progression. It offers support to be the best you can within your current role, to meet the ever growing needs within the health and social care systems.

Leadership Listens is a series of curated podcasts for leaders in health and care. This mini-series of podcasts is all about compassionate leadership and is a collection of conversations between Professor Michael West and leaders from across the health and care sector, based around Michael’s latest book – Compassionate Leadership: Sustaining Wisdom, Humanity and Presence in Health and Social Care.

PMA Diplomas are a more relaxed and personal route to gaining new skills and knowledge to achieve your qualification of choice. They enable us to concentrate on providing learning and coaching that fits around you and your work. Typically, most learners will complete in six months.

The Rosalind Franklin programme will support you to become outstanding innovators, leaders, and team members working across the health and care system, to help improve services for people and communities that access them. The programme is 9 months long with eight workshop days and you’ll be expected to commit approximately four to five hours a week to study.