Module overview

You will begin your Anderson journey (including Senior Leadership Apprenticeships) by critically evaluating your current leadership practice and the extent to which your work, and that of your colleagues, makes a difference to patient care. You will also explore the importance of self-awareness, resilience and self-care and review these aspects of your own leadership practice. The module will explore leadership theories and concepts, introducing you to what is known about how leadership affects the quality of care and the patient experience. You will apply theory in practice by exploring how your leadership can positively enhance care and challenge behaviours which have a negative impact.

Programme golden threads

Running through all learning activities are three golden threads that reflect the fundamental values of the programme and are central to your leadership practice:

“Through my participation on the Anderson programme, I will demonstrate how I, as a leader working with my team, organisation and system, strive to:

1. Understand equality, diversity and inclusion, and implement this proactively in my leadership
2. Remain constantly in tune with how the quality of care provided to patients, service users and their carers matches what we would want for those we love
3. Lead sustainable improvement of relevant services and processes to ultimately enhance patient care and population health.”

Planning your learning

Module 1 is a four-week module worth ten credits. There are four topics of learning to complete; each topic represents one week of learning activity.

A scheduled virtual meeting will take place in Week 1 of this module, with your tutor and your tutor group, to go through all of the module learning activities and a schedule highlighting key activities, discussion groups and other virtual meetings, so you know what to expect and are able to plan your time accordingly. There will be the opportunity to clarify this further at your first Action Learning Set (ALS) (or Inquiry Application Group (IAG) for GMTS participants) meeting.

For apprenticeship participants, in the schedule of learning activities, we have provided prompts to log your OTJ (off the job) training in your apprenticeship platform; the indicative time each activity may take is provided in the schedule of learning activities. 

Within this module, your tutor group will start to develop your understanding on how to generate evidence for  your Evidence Portfolio. The knowledge and skills relevant for this module are detailed below, and behaviours are developed throughout all the programme across all modules. 

If you are an apprenticeship participant, please refer to Module 0 to review the knowledge, skills, and behaviours relevant to this module. It is important to be clear about the KSBs that are linked to the Professional Discussion (Portfolio of Evidence) and the KSBs linked to the Strategic Business Proposal.

Learning outcomes

Developing your personal learning objectives 

Take some time to review the Learning Outcomes for this module. Using your Skills Scan that you completed as you joined the programme, consider what you may wish to focus on in Module 1, for example: 

• What are you particularly interested in within the module? 
• How does this link to your work role and current projects? 

Now develop some SMART personal learning objectives for this module and note them in your Learning Journal. 

You may be familiar with the SMART mnemonic, if not here is a reminder – your goals need to be: 

• Specific 
• Measurable 
• Achievable 
• Realistic 
• Time based. 

Supporting documents

Below you will find some key documents to support your learning and reading throughout the module. 

Module scheduled activities document is now published in your cohort area (it is no longer published with the module contents)

Module bibliography is now published in your cohort area (it is no longer published with the module contents)