Leadership

This short self-directed e-course has been developed for pharmacy professionals with an interest in developing their leadership skills as part of the requirements towards meeting the Healthy Living Pharmacy Level 1 quality criteria.

The course uses the dimensions of the NHS Healthcare Leadership Model and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Leadership Development Framework to help you explore the challenges and rewards of leadership and inspire you to develop your leadership skills and behaviours.

You will have the opportunity to learn using a variety of media and to take part in activities that can help you provide evidence for self-assessment. We estimate that the reading and activities will take around 8 hours in total.

Learning Objectives:

• use the Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) quality criteria to develop your workforce
• delegate efficiently and effectively
• manage and motivate your team to deliver proactive healthy lifestyle advice
• apply the principles of effective change management to communicate the impact of the HLP to your team.

We have developed this learning portfolio as part of CPPE’s Leadership for pharmacy professionals resources. The learning and activities in these resources will help you to think about ways in which you can develop your leadership behaviours. Ideally, you will work through the activities in this resource with colleagues in a learning community but you may choose to undertake them on your own.

Learning Objectives:

• identify emerging trends and potential developments that may impact on pharmacy practice in the future
• create a vision for change and identify how to communicate the vision to different stakeholders
• use data to improve the quality of services and improve health outcomes for patients
• discuss how leadership and culture within your organisation or department impact on candour, openness and transparency
• develop the capability of your team to enable them to meet future challenges
• identify good people management practices and consider your role in applying them in your workplace
• identify opportunities to work collaboratively with other teams.

RPS Leadership development framework: developing leadership, wherever you are, January 2015