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A Practical Guide to Developing Nursing Leadership
Career development: pathways and choicesCareer 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 what’s 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/Medicine 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 Fund> 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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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)
Nurse Leadership Programmes: what’s out there?
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Nurse leadership programmes: what’s 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: what’s 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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Releasing Talent
WORKING ACROSS BOUNDARIESGetting more achieved through effective collaboration, co-operation and
communication
Understanding the Context
MOTIVATIONBringing out the best in people by harnessing their energy
and talent
Team Enabling
Articulating the Vision
DECISION TAKINGMaking sound judgments and bringing in new ideas in
complex situations
PERSONAL RESOURCESPersonal responsiveness in leading change and reaching
goals
Responsiveness and Flexibility
Achieving Delivery
Influencing Change
Sharing Information
Building Valued Relationships
Embodying Values
Analytical Insight
Innovation and Creativity
Modernising leadership model:
Competency Framework / Behavioural indicators
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Career Path 2
Staff Nurse posts
Surgery, Medicine 1994/97
Deputy ward sister (Band 6.5)
Specialist Surgery 1997/99
Ward sister (Band 7)
BSc (Hons) 1999/2001
Senior Clinical Practice Facilitator (Band 7) Surgical Division 2001/04
Masters degree
Head of Nursing
(Band 9)
Surgery & Cancer Board
2008
Senior Nurse
Practice Development
(Band 8a)
Trust-wide ICT Projects
2004/06
Acting Head of Nursing
(Band 9)
Acute Hospital Board
2006/07
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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 what’s 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
Staff Nurse posts
Urology, Acute Admissions 1992/94
Deputy Charge Nurse (Band 6.5)
HIV/Infection 1994/95
Charge Nurse (Band 7)
BSc (Hons) 1995/1998
Senior Nurse
HIV/Infection/Tropical Diseases 1998/2001
Masters degree
Secondment to CNO Office
Dept of Health
2006/07
Secondment to Emergency
Services, general management
2001/02
Head of Nursing (Band 9)
Medicine/Surgery Board
2002/05
Director of Nursing
2008