Note on the Leadership Foundations programme
Please note that the most recent version of this programme is available directly from the Leadership Academy at https://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/programmes/the-edward-jenner-programme/
The version on the elfh Hub has been left active while a small number of current users complete the learning but new users wishing to access the programme should go to the Leadership Academy.
About the Leadership Foundations programme
The NHS Leadership Academy in collaboration with HEE elearning for healthcare has designed the Edward Jenner Programme as a new multi-professional elearning resource. The aim of this resource is to support clinicians in developing the fundamentals of leadership resulting in an NHS Leadership Academy Award in Leadership Foundations.
The NHS Leadership Academy is championing this excellent opportunity to provide a resource that will support clinicians who are newly qualified or new to a role (for example a nurse to health visitor) and those clinicians returning to practice after a career break. The resource is also applicable to those who are new to leadership and/or a leadership role.
The content has been written and designed by clinicians for clinicians and has been produced by multi-professional authors from a wide range of clinical backgrounds (including doctors, physiotherapists, pharmacists, nurses). We have liaised extensively with key partners to produce this flexible resource that will support clinicians in their role to deliver high quality, compassionate and safe patient care. Quality assurance for the content has been provided by double editing, peer review, stakeholder review and Critical Eye events (including internal and external moderation).
Angela Dempsey Clinical Lead
More information
A total of 21 learning sessions have been created on the fundamentals of leadership and the resource is aligned to the five core domains of the Clinical Leadership Competency Framework. Each of the five domains or modules is made up of four 30 minute learning sessions. The resource concentrates on laying the foundations of leadership providing clinicians with the fundamentals of best practice in leadership and providing tools and frameworks to help them acquire and utilise those skills. The learner will be encouraged to contextualise their learning through practical case scenarios, reflections on their own area of practice and activities designed to promote effective care based on service user perspectives.
This resource can be used by individual clinicians or employing organisations to underpin organisational training programmes. There are a wide range of activities and experiences included that can be used as a blended approach to learning and assessment. The Edward Jenner programme is accessible to everybody and is designed with sufficient flexibility to allow individual sessions to be accessed (according to learning need) or completion of each session sequentially. To further support lifelong learning, each session will include downloadable worksheet activities, a certificate of completion and reflective log which can be built into a Continual Professional Development (CPD) portfolio.
The Academy would like to thank all the clinicians, service users and organisations who have supported the development of the Edward Jenner Programme. We hope you continually revisit the programme material and also take advantage of the sign posting within the resource to access further learning to support your leadership journey.
The Leadership Fundamentals curriculum is made up of 21 elearning sessions which are based on the five core components that make up the Clinical Leadership Competency Framework.
Summary information regarding each Competency Framework module can be found below.
Competency Framework modules
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Demonstrating Personal Qualities
Demonstrating Personal Qualities
Effective leadership requires individuals to draw upon their values, strengths and abilities to deliver high standards of service. This requires them to demonstrate effectiveness in developing self-awareness, managing themselves, continuing personal development and acting with integrity.
- Developing self-awareness
- Managing yourself
- Continuing personal development
- Acting with integrity
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Working with Others
Working with Others
Effective leadership requires individuals to work with others in teams and networks to deliver and improve services. This requires them to demonstrate effectiveness in developing networks, building and maintaining relationships, encouraging contribution, and working within teams.
- Developing networks
- Building and maintaining relationships
- Encouraging contribution
- Working within teams
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Managing Services
Managing Services
Effective leadership requires individuals to focus on the success of the organisation(s) in which they work. This requires them to be effective in planning, managing resources, managing people and managing performance.
- Planning
- Managing resources
- Managing people
- Managing performance
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Improving Services
Improving Services
Effective leadership requires individuals to make a real difference to people’s health by delivering high quality services and by developing improvements to services. This requires them to demonstrate effectiveness in ensuring patient safety, critically evaluating, encouraging improvement and innovation and facilitating transformation.
- Ensuring patient safety
- Critically evaluating
- Encouraging improvement and innovation
- Facilitating transformation
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Setting Direction
Setting Direction
Effective leadership requires individuals to contribute to the strategy and aspirations of the organisation and act in a manner consistent with its values. This requires them to demonstrate effectiveness in identifying the contexts for change, applying knowledge and evidence, making decisions, and evaluating impact.
- Identifying the contexts for change
- Applying knowledge and evidence
- Making decisions
- Evaluating impact
Sample sessions
The following elearning sessions are provided to demonstrate what a prospective learner can expect when working through the Leadership Foundations programme. The curriculum is made up of 21 knowledge based sessions which are designed to build on a user’s knowledge and understanding of a subject in an inductive manner. The sample sessions below show the type of multimedia functionality that is used to support a learner as they progress through a typical elearning session.
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0.1 Introduction to the Edward Jenner Programme: Leadership Foundations
This introductory session on Leadership Foundations provides an overview of the elearning curriculum and describes how to get the best out of the elearning programme and use the exercises in your own professional working environment.
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2.1 Developing networks
This knowledge session is taken from module 2, Working with Others, of the Leadership Competency Framework and describes the importance of networking and multi-professional approaches to working and learning as a healthcare practitioner.
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4.3 Encouraging improvement and innovation
This knowledge session is taken from module 4, Improving Services, of the Leadership Competency Framework and explores ways to support the creation of a climate of continuous service improvement in the workplace.
Project Team
Angela Dempsey
Clinical Lead, NHS Leadership AcademyJonathan Guy
Project Manager, elearning for healthcarePaul Kelly
Lead Learning Designer, elearning for healthcareChristine Sykes
Module Editor (NHS Leadership Academy) and Practice Education Facilitator, Health Education East of England (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Workforce Partnership)Caragh Urquhart
Module Editor (NHS Leadership Academy) and Practice Education Facilitator, Health Education East of England (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Workforce Partnership)Louise Gambling
Project Support, NHS Leadership Academy
How to access
Available to all
The NHS Leadership Academy website www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk provides free access to anyone wishing to complete the elearning resource as part of their professional development. Click on the link to visit the site and learn more about The Edward Jenner Programme: Leadership Foundations. If you access the content using this link, you will not have to log in but your activity will not be tracked and you will not be able to generate a record of completion.
If you already have an account with elfh, then you can enrol on to the Leadership Foundations programme by logging in to the elfh Hub, selecting My Account > Enrolment and selecting the programme. You can then access the programme immediately in the My elearning section.
To view the Leadership Foundations programme, select the View button below. If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.
NHS healthcare staff in England
The Leadership Foundations programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this elearning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.
Further details are available here.
Not an NHS organisation?
If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access elfh Hub, you may be able to access the service by creating an OpenAthens account.
To check whether or not you qualify for free access via OpenAthens, you can view the eligibility criteria and register on the ‘OpenAthens’ portal.
Registering large numbers of users
If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the Leadership Foundations programme, please contact elfh directly.
Organisations wishing to use their own LMS
For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest.
More information
Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.