The Next Generation of Leaders and Managers within NSW Health

Building a pipeline of leaders for future succession planning is important for any organisation. A leadership pipeline starts with identifying emerging NSW Health managers and leaders and helping them unlock their leadership and management potential.

The two-year Program is designed to develop leadership and management capabilities of future health leaders and managers.

In the Program, participants learn to identify emerging healthcare opportunities and challenges  and to proactively pursue strategies for improved service delivery to patients, their families, carers and communities across NSW. The Program strongly aligns with the NSW Health Leadership and Management Framework.

The overarching objectives are to build capabilities in the following key areas:

  • Developing and leading self and others
  • Sustainability and operational strategy
  • Leadership: collective, ethical, compassionate, and adaptive
  • Working within a whole-of-health context
  • Creating healthy learning cultures
  • Communication and collaboration
  • Quality improvement, innovation, and patient safety
  • Managing people and teams with person-centred values

Program elements include:

  • Diploma of Leadership and Management (BSB50420)
  • Nine facilitator-led workshop modules
  • Business Improvement Project
  • Developmental work placements
  • Mentor support and development
  • Strategic Challenge work within a health service
  • 360° feedback report and coaching
  • Peer group learning

 

 

Learning outcomes
  • Diploma of Leadership and Management (BSB50420)
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnections of NSW Health organisations, systems and roles in the delivery of patient-centred care
  • Critically reflect on the impact of management style on organisational culture, drawing on contemporary leadership and management theory
  • Apply principles of financial management, operational planning and continuous improvement to promote sustainable practices
  • Practice self-development activities to enhance personal leadership and management strengths, and demonstrate the balanced application of these in the workplace
  • Plan, lead and participate in collaborative development activities, seeking and providing constructive feedback in a timely manner
  • Build rapport and team-work, through higher order questioning and dialogue, with internal and external stakeholders
  • Access information and interpret data from a variety of sources to inform safety and quality-based discussions and decisions
  • Apply systems thinking and evidence-based frameworks to problem solving
Audience
  • The Program is intended for NSW Health staff identified as emerging leaders from interprofessional roles in the early stages of their health management and leadership career, including staff employed at Administration Officer Level 6, Health Manager Levels 1 to 2, and corporate or clinical equivalent. NSW Health staff who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples are particularly welcomed to the Program to strengthen emerging leadership across the sector
Delivery
  • Currently the Program is delivered virtually
Duration and elements
  • 24 months
  • Pre-work for the workshops
  • 9 facilitator-led experiential learning modules
  • Developmental work placements (4 weeks to 6 months in duration)
  • Individual and group approaches to tackling live complicated and complex challenges
Application process
  • A locally informed approach. Health organisations identify and nominate suitable staff to participate in the Program in alignment with the provisions of the target audience
  • Endorsement is by the local health organisation Chief Executive through completion and submission of a nomination form to HETI who will finalise the cohort selection
Course requirements

    Interprofessional NSW Health staff with a minimum of two years’ work experience

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