A Practical Guide to Developing Nursing Leadership

1. A Practical Guide to Developing Nursing Leadership Career development: pathways and choices • LOUISE BODEN • Chief Nurse • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

2. 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

3. Developing your career pathway: opportunities • First, develop your own awareness of what’s going on: • Local • Organisational • Professional • National • Political

4. Cultivate your own view on current issues … Modernising Nursing Careers Setting the direction … High Quality Care For All

5. 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…

6. 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’…? Developing your career pathway: opportunities

7. 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 Developing your career pathway: opportunities

8. 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

9. 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

10. Degree and masters level modules can be incorporated into academic pathways : - Change Management - Developing clinical leadership - Management and leadership Nurse leadership programmes: what is out there?

11. 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?

12. 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

13. 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

14. Modernising leadership model: Competency Framework / Behavioural indicators MOTIVATION Bringing out the best in people by harnessing their energy and talent  Releasing Talent  Team Enabling Articulating the Vision DECISION TAKING Making sound judgments and bringing in new ideas in complex situations Analytical Insight Innovation and Creativity Understanding the Context    PERSONAL RESOURCES Personal responsiveness in leading change and reaching goals   Responsiveness and Flexibility Embodying Values Achieving Delivery  WORKING ACROSS BOUNDARIES Getting more achieved through effective collaboration, co-operation and communication    Sharing Information Building Valued Relationships Influencing Change

15. Career Path 2 Deputy ward sister (Band 6.5) Specialist Surgery 1997/99 Staff Nurse posts Surgery, Medicine 1994/97 Senior Nurse Practice Development (Band 8a) Trust-wide ICT Projects 2004/06 Ward sister (Band 7) BSc (Hons) 1999/2001 Senior Clinical Practice Facilitator (Band 7) Surgical Division 2001/04 Masters degree Acting Head of Nursing (Band 9) Acute Hospital Board 2006/07 Head of Nursing (Band 9) Surgery & Cancer Board 2008

16. 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… Succession Planning: Identifying, developing and empowering future nurse leaders

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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… Top tips for securing a new position

20. Career Path 3 Deputy Charge Nurse (Band 6.5) HIV/Infection 1994/95 Staff Nurse posts Urology, Acute Admissions 1992/94 Charge Nurse (Band 7) BSc (Hons) 1995/1998 Secondment to Emergency Services, general management 2001/02 Senior Nurse HIV/Infection/Tropical Diseases 1998/2001 Masters degree Head of Nursing (Band 9) Medicine/Surgery Board 2002/05 Secondment to CNO Office Dept of Health 2006/07 Director of Nursing 2008

21. Career development: pathways and choices • Questions?