LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL
CARE
7KNIM704
Level: Level 7
Credits: 15 Credits
Module leader: Julia Mingay
Tel: 020 7848 3546
Email: Julia.mingay@kcl.ac.uk
This handbook must be read in conjunction with module information provided on KEATS, the King’s ELearning And Teaching Service. You will be given access to KEATS on enrolment. Important information
relating to assessment and related regulations can be found in the Postgraduate Programme Handbook,
available on KEATS and via the Student Services Centre.
This handbook can also be provided in alternative formats (such as large print) upon request to
asc@kcl.ac.uk.
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Contents
Module overview .................................................................................................................... 3
Module aim .................................................................................................................... 3
Learning outcomes ......................................................................................................... 3
Teaching arrangements.................................................................................................. 3
Timetable ....................................................................................................................... 4
Peer Groups .................................................................................................................... 6
Submitting coursework .......................................................................................................... 7
Assessment criteria ........................................................................................................ 7
Summative assessment .................................................................................................. 7
Submission date for course work: ................................................................................... 7
Results and re-submissions for course work ................................................................... 7
Re- submission date: ...................................................................................................... 7
Resubmitted work available for download...................................................................... 7
Session 1- Learning outcomes & indicative reading ........................................................ 7
Session 2 – Learning outcomes & indicative reading ...................................................... 8
Session 3 – Learning outcomes & indicative reading ....................................................... 9
Session 4 – Learning outcomes & indicative reading ...................................................... 10
Module evaluation .............................................................................................................. 10
Action from previous evaluations ....................................................................................... 10
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Module overview
This module forms part of the MSc in Advanced Practice (Leadership pathway). The module contributes to
your programme of study as one of the core leadership modules. The module can also be taken as a
freestanding module.
Module aim
Welcome to the module. The aim of the module is to enable participants to explore their personal and
professional repertoire of leadership practices which contribute to effective organisational practice.
Effective leadership is a key ingredient for the evolution of the health services we provide for the population
we serve. Through a critical review of policy imperatives and leadership practices [participants will be able
to review their contribution to successful and safe care within and between organisations
Learning outcomes
Examine the policy imperatives influencing the need for evolution of healthcare services to meet service
user needs.
Appraise the political influences upon leadership practice in contemporary healthcare
Critically examine strategies to enhance healthcare team performance in line with the literature exploring
leader-follower engagement
Consider the opportunities for enhancing role performance within a complex organisational context
Critically explore the key concepts pivotal for working with others across traditional boundaries of influence
Critically review leadership challenges for multi-professional, inter-professional and multi-agency
healthcare service delivery
Critically review personal skills to enhance leadership performance within and between organisations
Teaching arrangements
A variety of teaching and learning strategies will be available within the module. Peer group, small group
and seminar activities will enable the module outcomes to be worked upon. Personal reflection and review
are encouraged to support the individual development for new ways of working within their professional
role.
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Timetable
Teaching
Date
mode
University
based
study
Type of
session
Time
Room
Welcome and introduction to the module
Leadership in organizations:
collaboration and partnership work
09:00-09:45
10:00-12:00
FWB 1.17
FWB 1.17
Review of leadership theory
(Students select to attend this)
12:00-13:00
Lunch
Crafting distributed leadership within an organization
13:00-14:00
14:00-16:00
FWB 2.40
16:00-17:00
FWB 2.40
Elizabeth McManus. Chief
Nurse Chelsea and
Westminster NHS
Foundation
Julia MingayTrust
Focus: Your Leadership role and responsibilities
Multi professional and inter-professional working
09:00-10:00
10:30-13:00
FWB 2.40
Julia Mingay
Lunch
13:00-14;00
Seminar 4
Working across the boundaries of health, social care and the
voluntary and charitable sector: building multi - agency
working
14:00-16:00
FWB 2.40
Jayne Steadman:
Independent consultant in
health and social care
Session 4:
Group
discussion
Assignment Discussion
16:00-17:00
FWB 2.40
Julia Mingay
10/05/2016 Session 1
Seminar 1
Tuesday
Session 2
Seminar 2
Title
24/05/2016 Peer Groups
Seminar 3
Tuesday
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Julia Mingay
Julia Mingay
FWB 1.17
Julia Mingay
Session 3:
Getting to know each other and professional roles.
Group
Establishing peer group ground rules for effective
discussions and collaboration
peer group
development
University
based
study
Lecturer
4
Teaching
mode
University
based
study
University
based
study
Date
07/06/2016
Tuesday
28/06/2016
Tuesday
Type of
session
Peer groups
Seminar 5
Title
Time
Room
Lecturer
Focus: Key factors for effective collaboration
Developing collaboration in primary care
10:30-13:00
FWB 2.40
Julie Bliss
Lunch
13:00-14:00
Seminar 6
Working at the primary and secondary care interface
14:00-15:30
FWB 2.40
Social Prescribing: leading innovation for population care.
15:30-16:30
FWB 2.40
Session 5
Assignment discussion
16:30-17:00
Sarah Hayes
Head of Nursing, Emergency
and Urgent Care
Clinical Director-Outpatients,
Prevention and Long Term
Conditions
Dan Hopewell
Director for Knowledge and
Innovation: Bromley by Bow
Seminar 7
Peer groups
Focus: Prepare your presentations
09:00-10:00
Promoting conversations in and between organizations:
The Leadership Role
Or
Mastering Leadership performance: Tips for success
Organizational culture and role
10:30-13:00
Lunch and module evaluation
13:00-14:00
Seminar 8
Seminar 9
Session 6
Session 7
Module Evaluation
14:00-14.10
Peer Group presentations: (20 minutes for each peer 14.15-16.00
group)
Closing module discussion
16.00-17:00
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FWB 2.40
Julia Mingay
FWB 2.40
Julia Mingay
Peer Groups
The inclusion of the peer group opportunity is to enable a formal space to be created for networking and exploring leadership in organisations. I hope that
by providing the space for the conversations will further develop your exploration of leadership in organisations and the challenges you face in working
across and within traditional boundaries
24/5/2016
Peer Group 1: FWB 2.44
Peer Group 2:FWB 1.63
Peer Group 3:FWB 4.174
Peer Group 4: FWB 1.14
07/06/2016
Peer Group 1: FWB 2.44
Peer Group 2:FWB 1.12
Peer Group 3: FWB 1.63
Peer Group 4: FWB 4.174
28/06/2016
Peer Group 1: FWB 2.44
Peer Group 2: FWB 2.41
Peer Group 3: FWB 1.60
Peer Group 4: FWB 4.174
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Submitting coursework
For this module you are assessed by Julia Mingay.
Assessment criteria
The assessment criteria for Level 7 work is available on the module KEATS site
Summative assessment
The title of the assignment is:
A critical exploration of the contribution effective leadership can make to building and sustaining
collaboration in the health and social care environment.
Up to 3000 words.
Key content for inclusion within the assignment:
What are the attributes and behaviours of effective leadership in organisations?
A critical review of the concepts associated with collaboration, partnership and alliance working
A demonstrable appreciation of the leader’s responsibility for relationship management within and
between people in different organisations
An analysis of the skills required to sustain effective partnership working for safe patient care
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Course work submission are provided on the KEATS module page.
It is essential that you use your candidate number on all assignments/examinations. Your candidate
number, which will begin with W for the academic year 2017/18, will be available via Student Records on the
King’s Intranet approximately one month after you enrol.
If you are unable to submit your work by the deadline please refer to the information in your programme
handbook on “mitigating circumstances”.
Submission date for course work:
Tuesday 19 July 2016
Late submissions will be accepted for 24 hours following the submission date. All work submitted late will
be marked as normal but will be capped at the pass mark for the module. If your assignment is hard copy
please ensure you date stamp it and submit it to the submission room G15 JCMB. If your assignment is
submitted electronically through TurnItIn, information about how to submit late will be provided on KEATS
module sites under assessment information.
The external examiner for this module is Dr Jenifer Loke. Students are not to make direct contact with
external examiners, in particular regarding their individual performance in assessments
Results and re-submissions for course work
Students will receive a provisional (unratified) mark for their coursework 4 weeks following submission.
According to the method of submission as detailed on your KEATS site, if your work was submitted online
you will be able to download marked coursework from KEATS; alternatively, if you completed a hard-copy
submission you can collect your coursework and feedback from the Student Services Centre.
To collect a hard copy assignment, you must provide your candidate number. Alternatively, you may send a
stamped addressed envelope to the Student Services Centre ensuring that this is large enough to
accommodate your assignments and that you have applied sufficient postage. Hard copy assignments will
be retained for four weeks; if you have not collected your assignment by then, it will be destroyed.
Feedback will include the award of a numerical grade which remains provisional until ratified by the
examination boards. The dates for the examination boards are available on KEATS. Ratified marks can be
viewed via Student Records on the King’s Intranet, the Monday following the relevant examination board.
The marking criteria by which your work is judged are provided in full in your programme handbook. Please
also refer to the section in your programme handbook on plagiarism and how to avoid it. If you have a query
about how to refer to a specific piece of work please ask your module leader, your group leader or a
member of library staff for guidance.
The feedback you receive on your assignment will guide you towards how to do better next time or how to
maintain your existing high standard!
If you do not understand your mark or the feedback you receive please contact : Julia Mingay
If you are unsuccessful, it is recommended that you contact the module leader before submitting your
second attempt. This will enable the module leader to provide you with an appropriate level of support as
you prepare to re-submit your work.
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Re- submission date:
Tuesday 18 October 2016.
Resubmitted work available for download:
Tuesday 15 November 2016.
Study day learning outcomes and references for your consideration. Please note additional references will
be available on presentation slides or introduced by speakers within the module days.
Session 1- Learning outcomes & indicative reading
10 May 2016
A critical consideration of the leadership attributes to enable and enhance effective and productive
organisational performance.
Session 1: Welcome to the module, an overview and discussion about the module.
Seminar 1
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To critically review the core features of leadership practice in organizations.
To critically consider the dimensions required for leadership in healthcare.
To review the principles of collaborative practices.
Indicative Reading:
Alderwick H, Ham C & Buck D (2015). Population Health Systems. Going Beyond Integrated Care. London.
Kings Fund Publications.
Bailey D. & McNally Koney K. (2000). Strategic Alliances among Health and Human Service Organisations:
from Affiliations to Consolidations. London Sage Publications.
Barr J & Dowding L (2012) 2nd Ed. Leadership in Health and Social Care London. Sage Publications.
Bishop V (2009) Leadership for Nursing and Allied Health Professionals. Berkshire. McGraw Hill Open
University Press.
Glasby J & Dickinson H (2008). Partnership Working in Health and Social Care. Bristol.
Gray I Field R, &Brown K (2010) Effective Leadership, Management and Supervision in Health and Social Care.
Exeter. Learning Matters.
Gopee N &Galloway J (2014) 2nd Ed. Leadership and Management in Healthcare. London. Sage Publications.
Johnson J & De Souza C (2008). Understanding Health and Social Care. London. Sage Publications
Keller S & Price C (2011). Beyond Performance New Jersey. John Wiley.
Loxley A (1997) Collaboration in Health and Social care: Working with Difference. London. Jessica Kingsley
Publications.
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Marquis BL & Huston CJ (2009) 6th Ed. Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing. Philadelphia.
Lippincott Williams& Wilkins.
Northouse PG (2015) 3rd Ed, Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice. London, Sage Publications.
Schedlitzki D & Edwards G (2014) Studying Leadership. London Sage Publications.
Session 2: Review of leadership theory
Avery G (2004) Understanding Leadership. London. Sage Publications.
Northouse PG (2012)2nd Ed. Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice. London. Sage Publications.
Western S (2013)2nd Ed. Leadership a Critical Text. London Sage Publications.
Seminar 2
To explore the skills and qualities of leadership in an organization: A personal account.
Session 3: Forming peer learning groups.
Session 2 – Learning outcomes & indicative reading
24 May 2016
An examination of the core requirements for high performing teams in organisations.
Seminar 3
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To review your personal repertoire of team working
To critically examine factors which create and support high performing in teams
Critical examination of inter-professional working
Critically review the challenges of working within complex organisations.
Indicative Reading:
Borrill. C, West M, Dawson J (2001). Team Working and Effectiveness in Healthcare. Aston University
Grey C (2011) 2nd Ed. A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying
Organisations. London. Sage Publications.
Ghaye T (2005). Developing the Reflective Healthcare Team. Oxford. Blackwell Publishing.
Koubel G & Bungay H (2012). Ed. Rights, Risks and Responsibilities. Inter-professional Working in Health and
Social Care. London. Palgrave Macmillan.
Leathard A (2003). Inter-professional Collaboration: From Policy to Practice in Health and Social Care. London.
Brunner Routledge.
Martin V (2004). Leading Inter-professional Teams in Health and Social Care. London. Routledge
Meads G & Ashcroft J (2005). The Case for Inter-professional Collaboration in Health and Social Care. Oxford.
Blackwell Publishing.
Payne M (2000). Teamwork in Multi-professional Care. New York. Palgrave.
Petri L (2010). Concept Analysis of Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Nursing Forum 45.2.73-82.
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Thomas J, Pollard KC & Sellman D (2014) 2nd Ed. Inter-professional Working in Health and Social Care.
London. Palgrave Macmillan.
Walshe K & Smith J (2011) 2nd Ed. Healthcare Management. Berkshire. McGraw Hill.
Seminar 4
Building and sustaining multi-professional and multi-agency team working in primary and intermediate
care: a personal account.
Session 4
Assignment discussion.
Session 3 – Learning outcomes & indicative reading
7 June 2016
A critical review of collaborative working in the primary care environment.
Seminar 5
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Critical review of the challenges for co-operative practices in primary care environments.
Critical consideration of the leadership behaviours that promote strong partnerships for safe client
care.
Seminar 6
Leading and managing across the interfaces of care: a personal account.
Seminar 7
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Considering organisational cultures: a leadership challenge.
Exploring organizations through the lens of complexity
Indicative Reading:
Alvesson M (2002). Understanding Organisational Culture. London Sage Publications.
Chadwick MM (2010). Creating Order Out of Chaos: A Leadership Approach AORN 91.1.154-170.
Devane C (2012). Leadership in a matrix. NHS Confederation. London www.nhsconfed.org
Edwards N (2014). Community Services. How they can Transform Care. London Kings Fund Publications.
Ghaye T (2008). Building the Reflective Healthcare Organisation. Oxford. Blackwell Publishing.
Gilburt H & Peck E (2014). Service Transformation. Lessons from Mental Health. London. Kings Fund
Publications.
Naylor C et al (2016). Bringing together physical and mental health. A new frontier for integrated care.
London. Kings Fund Publications.
Ross Baker G (2011). The Role of Leaders in the High Performing Healthcare Systems. London. Kings Fund.
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Session 4 – Learning outcomes & indicative reading
28 July 2016
Seminar 8
Managing Conflict.
Seminar 9
Introduction to social prescribing, an innovation for self-determined individual care.
Learning resources Social Prescribing Network (2016) Report of the annual social prescribing network
conference. London University of Westminster.
Session 5
Module Evaluation.
Session 6
Peer group facilitated presentations.
Promoting conversations in and between organisations: The Leadership Role
Or
Mastering Leadership performance: Tips for success
Module evaluation
At the end of the module you are requested to complete the short online evaluation which will be available
on your module KEATS site. Student evaluations are very important to us and are required by Health
Education England and the regional London Local Education and Training Boards.
Action from previous evaluations
1. Please can the peer groups sessions have a focus identified to promote the discussions.
Peer group focus established for the scheduled meetings.
2. Please can a session be included to refresh leadership theory knowledge
Review of leadership theory included on first study day.
3. Group work very engaging but I would like to move out of the peer group structure for some of
the discussions. Module lead will ask participants to work in mixed groups for some of the
seminar work.
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