occupational therapists as health care radicals
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Do you think differently? Challenge the status quo? Have a desire for change and improvement in healthcare service delivery? You might just be a health care radical. With inspiration from Helen Bevan (@helenbevan) and the School for Healthcare Radicles https://changeday.nhs.uk/healthcareradicals this presentation discuss how Occupational Therapists and other healthcare professionals can facilitate change and promote innovation.TRANSCRIPT
BeckyWilliamson
Occupational Therapist
Nott ingham University Hospitals
@_beckyOT
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS AS
HEALTH CARE RADICALS:
FACILITATING CHANGE AND
PROMOTING INNOVATION
#OTRADICALS
#OTRADICALS
Healthcare radicals are:
Passionate about great care
Driven by values
Optimistic in the face of challenge
Inspire other people to change
Ignite collective action
Bevan (2014) - School for Healthcare Radicles https://changeday.nhs.uk/healthcareradicals
HEALTH CARE RADICALS
Are experts in change and innovation
Enable people to achieve meaningful goals
Use innovation daily to overcome barriers
Have skills in facilitating change to drive service improvement
We need to confidently self-promote our talents for innovation and change
management.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
CHANGE
INNOVATION
NHS CHANGE DAY
NHS Change Day is a frontline led movement, the largest of its kind, with a
shared purpose of improving health and care.
Our mission is to inspire and mobilise people everywhere, staff, patients and the public to
do something better together to improve care for people.
http://changeday.nhs.uk/home
My Pledges for 2014 are:
Smile - It's Contagious!I pledge to continue to smile at EVERYONE
even on the diffi cult days.
Happy Colleagues = Happy PatientsI pledge to look out for my colleagues health & wellbeing, encouraging them to ask for support and recognise that delivering care can be emotionally challenging.
Authentic Mindful LeadershipI pledge to bring my whole self to work through mindfulness; being genuine and authentic to my values in leadership.
NHS CHANGE DAY
Start with YourselfChange starts with me
Build Alliances Find others that share our passion and goals
Roll with Resistance How can I be an eff ective change agent – resistant to changeWhere are people coming from roll with resistance work with it
Don’t be a Marta“if your horse dies get off it”
Bevan (2014)
HEALTH CARE RADICALS
Introduction: Occupational therapists (OT) are experts in change; we work with our service users to enable them to achieve meaningful goals. These ski l ls of faci l i tat ing change can be appl ied to promote and drive service improvement within our organisations. As a profession we need to confi dently sel f-promote and highl ight our talents for leadership and change management. Sharing our leadership journey can inspire other to do the same. Objective: To share my Publ ic Narrative, tel l ing the story of me, the story of us and the story of now to inspire others to embark on their leadership journey at Nott ingham University Hospitals (NUH) to faci l i tate posit ive change.Discussion: Storytel l ing can empower others to real ise their leadership potential and desire for change. Leadership needs to happen at al l levels of an organisation and Publ ic Narrative enables practit ioners to feel the sense of urgency needed to faci l i tate widespread change. National Health Service (NHS) has seen recent restructuring and the chal lenge to achieve more with fewer fi nances has become evident. I passionately bel ieve "everyone in healthcare real ly has two jobs when they come to work every day: to do their work and to improve i t ." (Batalden & Davidoff 2007). I shared my experiences of the Nott ingham Roosevelt Travel Scholarship and the Emerging Leaders (NHS Leadership Academy) with frontl ine staff at NUH to inspire them to take up these kinds of opportunit ies and infl uence the changing face of the NHS. To ensure compassionate leadership is taking place through the organisation at al l levels. Outcome: Sharing my leadership journey resulted in col leagues applying for scholarship opportunit ies to explore best practice overseas and bring this back to NUH, accessing leadership courses and assess their leadership journeys. Conclusion: Hunter identifi ed “We can al l be leaders – we should embrace this” (Hunter 2013) and sharing our own leadership journey as OTs can be a catalyst for empowering leaders.
Williamson R (2013)
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS AS LEADERS FOR CHANGE TELLING STORIES AS A CALL TO ACTION
WITHIN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
ROOSEVELT SCHOLARSHIP 2012
Keep your passion
Stay curious and always ask - “why?” and “how can we make this better?”
Think about the big picture / Think about the small things
Small collective actions can lead to a social movements
Surround yourself with people who share your values
Don’t be afraid to “fail”
CONCLUSION
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