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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

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Career development: pathways and choices

Questions?Questions?