A Practical Guide to Developing Nursing Leadership

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A Practical Guide to Developing Nursing
Leadership

• Career development pathways and choices
• LOUISE BODEN
• Chief Nurse
• University College London Hospitals NHS
  Foundation Trust

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Career development pathways and choices

• Presentation Objectives
• Developing your career pathway the
  opportunities available for existing clinical
  leaders
• Nurse leadership programmes what is out there?
• Succession planning identifying, developing and
  empowering new nurse leaders of the future
• Top tips for securing a new position

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Developing your career pathway opportunities

• First, develop your own awareness of whats going
  on
• Local
• Organisational
• Professional
• National
• Political

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Cultivate your own view on current issues

• Modernising Nursing Careers
• Setting the direction

High Quality Care For All
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Developing your career pathway opportunities

• Start with reflection on your own career
  pathway past, present future
• - clinical supervision
• - action learning sets
• - set yourself objectives (within a time frame)
• Make sure you have robust and reliable support
• - being mentored
• - receiving coaching
• - as well as self-motivation

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Developing your career pathway opportunities

• Seek out work experience
• In line with objectives
• - shadowing
• - covering leave absence (annual, maternity)
• - secondments
• - acting-up / interim arrangements
• - project work
• Move sideways in order to move on?
• Move out of comfort zone?

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Developing your career pathway opportunities

• Build relationships
• Formally
• - understanding roles, structures and systems
• - understanding dynamics and interdependences
• - Board to ward and back again
• Informally
• - networking
• - observing movers and shakers in your own
  organisation
• - replicate desirable behaviours

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Career Path 1
Staff Nurse posts Medicine, Acute Admissions 1998
Clinical Practice Facilitator (Band 6) Medicine
2001
Project Work linked to PFI / Relocation 2003/04
Charge Nurse (Band 7) BSc (Hons) Infection/Medicin
e 2004
Senior Nurse (Band 8a) Infection Control UCLH
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Nurse leadership programmes what is out there?

• RCN Clinical leadership programme
• The Kings Fundgt
• Athena Programme for Executive Women
• Breaking through transformational leadership
• Successful Nurse Leader

• This website provides
• Latest clinical leadership news
• Clinical leadership resources
• Publications, articles and research

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Nurse leadership programmes what is out there?

• Degree and masters level modules can be
  incorporated into academic pathways
• - Change Management
• - Developing clinical leadership
• - Management and leadership

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Nurse Leadership Programmes whats out there?

• Aspiring Sister Senior Nurse programmes at
  UCLH thru HEI providers
• - develops leadership potential of Band 6.5s
  looking for promotion to Dept/ Ward Sister
• and
• - develops leadership potential of Band 7s
  looking
• for Band 8 posts (offers 15 CATS points at
  masters level)

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Nurse leadership programmes whats out there?

• Key learning
• Analyse and understand their own leadership
  styles
• Ability to influence change provide direction
  to empower others
• Provide more effective leadership and be able to
  manage people and resources more efficiently and
  effectively
• - Improve personal skills in leading teams ,
  crucially, managing difficult people and
  situations

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Nurse leadership programmes whats out there?

• Participants will also be able to
• Reflect and learn from practice through action
  learning
• Develop greater political awareness knowledge
  of their organisation, and improve their
  networking skills
• - Increase awareness of clinical governance
  issues managing risk, complaints and incidents

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Modernising leadership model Competency
Framework / Behavioural indicators
MOTIVATION Bringing out the best in people by
harnessing their energy and talent
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Releasing Talent
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Team Enabling
Articulating the Vision

DECISION TAKING Making sound judgments and
bringing in new ideas in complex situations
Understanding the Context
Analytical Insight
Innovation and Creativity
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PERSONAL RESOURCES Personal responsiveness in
leading change and reaching goals
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Responsiveness and Flexibility
Achieving Delivery
Embodying Values
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WORKING ACROSS BOUNDARIES Getting more achieved
through effective collaboration, co-operation and
communication
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Influencing Change
Sharing Information
Building Valued Relationships
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Career Path 2
Staff Nurse posts Surgery, Medicine 1994/97
Deputy ward sister (Band 6.5) Specialist Surgery
1997/99
Senior Nurse Practice Development (Band
8a) Trust-wide ICT Projects 2004/06
Ward sister (Band 7) BSc (Hons) 1999/2001
Senior Clinical Practice Facilitator (Band 7)
Surgical Division 2001/04 Masters degree
Acting Head of Nursing (Band 9) Acute Hospital
Board 2006/07
Head of Nursing (Band 9) Surgery Cancer
Board 2008
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Succession Planning Identifying, developing and
empowering future nurse leaders

• Use same approach for others recommended
• earlier in this session
• Invest time in getting to know your staff
• Network to know who else has potential
• Develop talent-spotting tendencies

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Succession Planning Identifying, developing and
empowering future nurse leaders

• Use appraisal to encourage development of
• necessary knowledge/ skills/experience
• Provide opportunities for contenders
• - shadowing
• - interim cover arrangements
• - secondments
• - acting up

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Top tips for securing a new position

• Update your CV and portfolio
• Think what you want it to say about you
• Keep the content live
• Not just a list
• What is your USP does it come across?
• Check whats missing resolve any deficits

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Top tips for securing a new position

• Prepare for Interviews
• - Do your homework!
• - Informal visit see and be seen
• - Brush up on presentation skills
• rehearse with a critical friend
• against the clock
• - Know yourself strengths, weaknesses,
  achievements
• - Learn from your own experiences as an
  interviewer

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Career Path 3
Deputy Charge Nurse (Band 6.5) HIV/Infection
1994/95
Staff Nurse posts Urology, Acute Admissions
1992/94
Charge Nurse (Band 7) BSc (Hons) 1995/1998
Secondment to Emergency Services, general
management 2001/02
Senior Nurse HIV/Infection/Tropical Diseases
1998/2001 Masters degree
Head of Nursing (Band 9) Medicine/Surgery
Board 2002/05
Secondment to CNO Office Dept of Health 2006/07
Director of Nursing 2008
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Career development pathways and choices

• Questions?