Strategic Leadership in Health Care (Level 7)

Program Overview

The Strategic Leadership in Health Care program empowers healthcare professionals to develop leadership skills for enhanced service delivery. It emphasizes strategic thinking, collaboration, and the application of leadership theories to practice. The program equips students with the knowledge and abilities to lead teams, improve quality, and reduce costs in healthcare settings.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Strategic Leadership in Health Care (Level 7) program is designed to develop clinical leadership skills to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of healthcare delivery. It emphasizes a strategic approach to operating within a complex system, inspiring, supporting, and teaching others, and leading teams. The program aims to:

• Enable students to critically evaluate major leadership theories.
• Enable students to reflect on the relationship between leadership and management.
• Enable students to understand the role of strategic leadership in improving quality and cost effectiveness.
• Encourage students to apply leadership theory to day-to-day healthcare practice.
• Equip students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to develop leadership behaviors in current roles and prepare for future leadership roles.
• Encourage students to reflect on their leadership style and experience within the context of their role and organization and to develop self-knowledge.

Assessment:

The program utilizes the following assessment method:

• 4000 word written assignment

Careers:

The program enhances employability by developing students' capacity to plan and implement leadership strategies to achieve the goals of the "bigger picture" in healthcare, thus preparing them for more senior roles.

Other:

• The NHS Next Stage Review (2008) highlighted the importance of developing clinical leadership.
• The module will introduce health professionals to major leadership theories.
• Students will bring their experience of working, and leading, within healthcare roles to the module and learn to place their experience in the context of leadership theory.
• The module will enable students to develop in the three domains of the NHS Leadership Qualities Framework.
• The module is available as a standalone module.
• Successful applicants will normally hold at least a second class Honours degree in a health-related subject and a health-related professional qualification.
• Experience in a leadership role or experience of leading a team is desirable.