November 2018 – dip into leadership perspectives this month

Nursing Standard, Special Issue Celebrating diversity , 03 October 2018
Let’s celebrate BME nurses – all year

Nursing Standard : 31st October edition – Leadership is a key theme

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Alison Moore
Paul Whitby

I had depression and was running a mental health trust
Lynne Pearce
Lynne is a  journalist and she talks to Lisa Rodrigues and about her new book :

Being an NHS Chief Executive: what they never told me, or if they did I wasn’t listening

Published by The Laughton Press; £10.99 in paperback, £6.99 for Kindle
Also Lisa’s article in Health Service Journal 10th October 2018
https://www.hsj.co.uk/leadership/being-an-nhs-chief-executive/7023545.article

National Mentoring Day

National Mentoring Day has passed , it was on October 27th !

From North West NHS Leadership Academy : “In celebration of National Mentoring Day (October 27th 2018), accredited coach and mentor, David Eaton, CAMHS Service Manager at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, shares his top tips for the first meeting of a mentor and mentee.”

Staff retention support programme: one year on
NHS Improvement, October 2018
“After supporting 110 NHS trusts, the programme review identifies key themes that are common to successful retention and announces plans to support more trusts.”

Excerpt: “Emerging themes — what do we know about tackling retention?

There is no silver bullet, but there are actions all trusts can take, which starts by understanding your own workforce and leaver data and what it is telling them.

We have seen that successful staff retention programmes include many of these elements, which you can tailor to your local situation:

  • knowing your workforce data inside out and building a plan based on the insights this data offers you, including those gleaned from consistently doing exit interviews and holding staff focus groups
  • supporting new starters and the newly qualified, expanding preceptorship programmes and offering pastoral support from more experienced staff
  • offering a range of flexible working options for all staff to support their work-life balance and life needs (i.e. caring or childcare)
  • mapping out career pathways so that staff can visualise early, how to progress their career in the trust, as well as promoting roles and opportunities through career clinics and online support
  • effective staff engagement, including finding ways to acknowledge and reward values-driven behaviours
  • supporting staff health and wellbeing
  • employing innovative employment practices and trying new things, such as fast track/one stop recruitment events, ‘itchy feet’ conversations as a preventative measure, and new models of ‘retire and return'”

New People Directorate

Creation of a new People directorate led by a new Chief People Officer, a shared post between NHS Improvement and NHS England, and hosted by NHS Improvement, with responsibility for providing a cohesive approach to recruiting, retaining, deploying and developing the current NHS workforce.

https://www.hee.nhs.uk/news-blogs-events/news/public-statement-health-education-england-nhs-improvement

Change-Capable Leadership: The Real Power Propelling Successful Change
White Paper, Center for Creative Leadership
By Shannon Muhly Bendixen, Michael Campbell, Corey Criswell, and Roland Smith
Excerpt from report’s Introduction “What follows is not a change-management model. Instead, we focus on what leaders do when a change is successful and what leaders do when a change is unsuccessful. We asked 148 senior executive leaders about a change they successfully navigated in the past 12 to 18 months. They described the challenge they faced and what they believe contributed to the successful execution of that change. Their responses include the behaviors they displayed, the actions they took, and the mindsets they adopted. We also asked a diff erent group of 127 executives about a change with an unsuccessful outcome within the past 12 to 18 months. They also described the challenges they faced and the behaviors they displayed. See the About This Research section for more details.”

Frequently Asked Questions on the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES)
These frequently asked questions have been produced to help support the understanding and use of Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES).
Published in July 2018

From AcademiWales

New quick tips! We’re always adding to our ‘quick tips’ library.

Is there a relationship between self-awareness, leader effectiveness and job level in the Welsh public service?

You’re invited to take part in exciting new doctoral research by Nia Thomas with the University of South Wales, to examine whether a leader’s effectiveness is related to their self-awareness. Nia’s research will examine the relationship between self-awareness and leadership effectiveness across a range of job levels in Welsh public service organisations.

To find out more about Nia and the background to her research, visit her website at www.knowingselfknowingothers.co.uk.

Take part in the research by visiting Nia’s online questionnaire. The questionnaire will close on 30 November.

News story: NHS pledges action to eliminate ethnicity pay gap
Department of Health and Social Care 
22nd October 2018
Diversity across the NHS is above the national average, with BAME staff making up 17% of the non-medical NHS workforce. However, only 11% of senior managers are BAME. This drops to 6.4% at a very senior level. In light of the figures, Health Minister Stephen Barclay set a goal for the NHS to ensure BAME representation at very senior management levels will match that across the rest of the NHS workforce within 10 years.

‘Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff will be properly represented at the top of the NHS by 2028’
Nursing Standard, Oct 2018

Independent report:Race at work 2018: McGregor-Smith review – one year on
Published 11 October 2018
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Race Disparity Unit
Excerpt: “Comparing the findings between the 2015 survey results and the position now
in 2018 we note the following headlines:

Supporting progression
Progression remains important to BAME employees with 70% saying that career progression is important to them, compared to only 42% of White British employees. However, over half of BAME employees (52%), believe that they will have to leave their current organisation to progress in their career, in contrast with 38% of White
British employees who believe this.

Measuring success
In 2015, 48% of BAME managers had a performance objective to promote equality and diversity, compared to only 32% of white managers with a performance objective to promote equality and diversity. Worryingly the proportion of managers who report that they have a performance objective to promote equality at work has fallen from 41% in 2015 to 32% in 2018 –this figure has fallen almost equally for those from a White British (26% down from 32%) and BAME background (38% down from 48%).

Leaders in Healthcare 2018, Birmingham 14-16 November 
Speakers
Master class day and opening keynote 
Day 2 programme 
Day 3 programme 

University of York research into networking in the NHS
A major study into the NHS workforce, employee engagement and staff networks is being carried out by the University of York , funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The survey was developed in partnership with NHS Employers and an LGBT+ Networks Advisory Board established for this study. HR directors and their teams are encouraged to complete the survey before the 30 November 2018. The results of the study and final report will be published in April 2020.

journal articles

Nurses’ psychological empowerment: An integrative approach
Orly Shapira-Lishchinsky, Pascale Benoliel
Journal of Nursing Management 2018 October 22

Staff Nurses’ Perceptions of Their Nurse Managers’ Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Their Own Structural Empowerment.
Khan BP, Quinn Griffin MT, Fitzpatrick JJ.
J Nurs Adm. 2018 Nov 7

Emergence of informal clinical leadership as a catalyst for improving patient care quality and job satisfaction
Sheila A Boamah
Journal of Advanced Nursing 2018 October 30

Clinical leadership, structural empowerment and psychological empowerment of registered nurses working in an emergency department.
Connolly M, Jacobs S, Scott K.
J Nurs Manag. 2018 Oct;26(7):881-887

Leadership skills for medical student clubs and societies
Simone Ross, Tarun Sen Gupta, Peter Johnson
Medical Education 2018, 52 (11): 1181-1182

Real Management and Leadership in Clinical Experiences
Nurse Educator 2018, 43 (6): 329

Connecting patient experience, leadership, and the importance of involvement, information, and empathy in the care process
Jana Archer, Lynn Stevenson, Angela Coulter, Adrienne Mercer Breen
Healthcare Management Forum 2018, 31 (6): 252-255

Who Wants Feedback? Effects of Transformational Leadership and Leader-Member Exchange on Mental Health Practitioners’ Attitudes Toward Feedback
Karissa M Fenwick, Kim C Brimhall, Michael Hurlburt, Gregory Aarons
Psychiatric Services: a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association 2018 October 30

Associations of ambivalent leadership with distress and cortisol secretion
Raphael M Herr, Frenk Van Harreveld, Bert N Uchino, Wendy C Birmingham, Adrian Loerbroks, Joachim E Fischer, Jos A Bosch
Journal of Behavioral Medicine 2018 October 26

Age Diversity in the Workplace: The Effect of Relational Age Within Supervisor-Employee Dyads on Employees’ Work Engagement.
Yang J, Matz-Costa C.
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 2018 Sep;87(2):156-183

Student-led simulation: preparing students for leadership
Sharon Edwards, Mandy Lee, Kelly Sluman
Nursing Management (Harrow) 2018 October 25

Preparing for leadership in General Practice: a qualitative exploration of how GP trainees learn about leadership
John W Nicol, Lisi J Gordon
Education for Primary Care 2018 October 22, : 1-9

Developing excellent leaders – the role of Executive Coaching for GP specialty trainees.
Harte S, McGlade K.
Educ Prim Care. 2018 Sep;29(5):286-292

‘It depends what you mean by leadership’: An analysis of stakeholder perspectives on consumer leadership
Stephanie Stewart, Brett Scholz, Sarah Gordon, Brenda Happell
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 2018 October 3

Advancing consumer engagement: Supporting, developing and empowering youth leadership in cancer care. 
Patterson P, Allison KR, Hornyak N, Woodward K, Johnson RH, Walczak A.
Eur J Cancer Care (Engl). 2018 Nov 8

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