An Introduction to Leading with Kindness and Compassion in Health and Social Care
Develop your understanding of how to lead with compassion and kindness within the health and social care sectors.
Who is the course for?
This course is primarily suited to:
People working in health and social care, regardless of sector, role or seniority.
Leaders in the NHS, local government, independent and voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.
Learners who are thinking about working within the health and social care system
Patients, service users and carers who use the health and social care system
What topics will you cover?
How key concepts relating to kind and compassionate leadership are defined
The evidence for improved patient and service user outcomes
The evidence for staff wellbeing, performance and innovation
The evidence for kind and compassionate leadership in the context of social inequities and social justice
Understanding what gets in the way of kind and compassionate leadership
How to lead yourself with kindness and compassion
How to model kindness and compassion to others
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
Engage with the evidence around why kindness and compassion is important for improving outcomes, staff wellbeing and performance and inclusive organisational cultures
Reflect on your own leadership behaviours and the behaviours you see around you in the workplace
Practice simple and every day techniques to model self-compassion and kindness towards others
Discuss the wider systemic issues that prevent kindness and compassion from being present in health and care
Explore the different ways in which we define the concepts of leadership, kindness and compassion
Begin to develop a personal practice of kind and compassionate leadership
