Feb 2020 – the month opens with the Parker Review

Feb 2020 – the month opens with the Parker Review

Ethnic Diversity Enriching Business Leadership
An update report from The Parker Review
Sir John Parker
The Parker Review Committee
5 February 2020

Read on for more resources and news on leadership:

The matron’s handbook: For aspiring and experienced matrons.
NHS Improvement;2020.
https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/matrons-handbook/
“This handbook is a practical guide for those who aspire to be a matron, those who are already in post, and for organisations that want to support this important role. It can be used to prepare ward, department and service leaders for the matron’s role, and to support newly appointed matrons.”
Freely available online

Championing leadership development in healthcare
Nature Career Feature  – Published: 09 January 2020
Nature Biotechnology volume 38, pages110–111(2020

The Nightingale Challenge
“…the Nightingale Challenge asks every health employer around the world to provide leadership and development training for a group of young nurses and midwives during 2020 the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife.”

Lancet article – https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32794-1/fulltext

Why practice nurses’ struggle to navigate their way to top positions is a leadership labyrinth
Launder, M 
Healthcare Leader,
4th Feb 2020
Excerpt “….could ….new schemes – run by bodies such as the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) and NHS England – really be enough to see more [primary care] nurses in senior positions?”
Excerpt ” The leadership programmes have been introduced against a stark backdrop. In 2016, research from the QNI found that just 1.6% of practice nurses are nurse partners. And since July last year, while the formation of 1,259 primary care networks (PCN) provided a golden opportunity for practice nurses to step into leadership positions, it led to just 19 nurses filling the role of clinical director, which is the named, accountable leader responsible for delivering the strategy of each PCN. A golden opportunity  However, when the clinical director role was first announced, there was confusion over who was eligible to become one. The British Medical Association initially said that clinical directors would be chosen from among the GPs of the network. But in March last year, NHS England director of primary care, Dr Nikita Kanani, said that PCNs can be led by any clinician. Nurses still seemed hesitant to apply for the role. Creating leadership positions that practice nurses can apply for – and ensuring they know they can – is just the first step towards tackling a deep-rooted problem. Dr Crystal Oldman, chief executive of the QNI, says she doesn’t think the ‘tiny’ number of nurse clinical directors is ‘deliberate’ or ‘intentional’. Instead, she points to two factors: a lack of nurses already in leadership roles such as locality leads, who can move across to become clinical directors, and a lack of confidence to say, ‘Yes, I can do this.’ ” “There are also fewer obvious steps in the career ladder than other nursing areas. Compared to secondary care, practice nurses have no ‘clarity of pathway equivalent to an associate director of nursing or a director of nursing’. Lead practice nurses are also likely to be managing smaller teams than in secondary care.” See also Clare Blackwell’s article in Practice Nursing,  Becoming a lead nurse in a primary care network, published online 8th Jan 2020

Embedding Values-Led Leadership in a Progressive NHS Trust
Pybus, Helen
OE Cam
January 15, 2020
A write up by the consultancy organisation OE Cam on its work with Solent NHS Trust  Excerpt ”   OE Cam co-designed the project with Solent’s HR & leadership teams with the aim of improving the impact of leadership across the organisation.  The programme included workshops with the Board and an integrated development process for senior leaders focussing on embedding values-led leadership.  Working with around 40 senior leaders, we established what the values really meant in practice to develop a new behavioural framework. “Leading with HEART” Development Centres were designed to be a learning-based approach to enhance values-led leadership.  In total, 100 leaders took part in the programme across three cohorts (2016 – 2019).  The core development activity took place over three months with a much longer wraparound of activity for approximately a year, which created a seamless learning journey.  The Development Centre itself included a series of business simulations (designed specifically for the context) followed by ‘hot’ feedback, coaching and completion of diagnostic tools that explored motives, drivers, emotional intelligence and personal resilience.  The methodologies allowed us to explore leadership mindset alongside behaviours.  The design incorporated key predictors of leadership development including facilitation, visible support from managers before, during & after the events, experimentation, reflection, discussion and experience.”

CIPD Applied Research Conference
Dublin City University Business School, 22-23 January 2020
The CIPD Applied Research Conference (ARC) is an annual meeting place for academic
researchers and practitioners working in people management, employment policy and related fields. It holds a unique place in bringing together these two communities to hear about cutting edge research in HR and discuss how it can be applied in practice. ARC is an interdisciplinary conference that covers a wide range of aspects of people management, employment, learning and development and organisational development. In all research papers presented, we set out to discuss the practical application of insights to organisational life and labour markets. This conference proceedings contains the accepted submissions for the ARC 2020 research posters and papers. The papers are grouped into 15 thematic streams and are presented in the order in which they appear in the programme.
ARC 2020 was hosted by the Dublin City University Business School, 22-23 January. The
programme detail is available here. For more information on ARC, visit www.cipd.co.uk/arc
CIPD = Chartered Institute of Personel and Development

Journal articles

Learning to lead: A scoping review of undergraduate nurse education
Journal of Nursing Management, 7th Jan 2020
Scammell, JME et al
Excerpt from abstract  ”  The review highlighted some agreement about the knowledge, skills and behaviours to be addressed in leadership education. What varied more was the pedagogical methods used to deliver this, the extent of its integration throughout the programme and the nature of collaborative academic‐practice working to ensure good quality clinical supervision. Implications for nursing management-(1) students must be exposed to positive leadership practices during clinical placements to facilitate theory‐practice integration. (2) Bullying negatively impacts on students’ self‐efficacy whereas positive role modelling from registered nurses supports development of leadership competence. (3) Leadership theory and competence should be introduced early and revisited throughout the programme.”

Reflections on a decade of authentic leadership research in health care
Wong CA, Walsh EJ.
J Nurs Manag. 2020 Jan;28(1):1-3.

Preparedness of medical students and junior doctors for their role as clinical leaders: A systematic review.
Barnes T, Yu TW, Webster CS.
Med Teach. 2020 Jan;42(1):79-85

Effectiveness and feasibility of a mindful leadership course for medical specialists: a pilot study
BMC Med Educ. 2020 Feb 4;20(1):34.

Another study from the Netherlands:

Nurse practitioners’ perceptions of their ability to enact leadership in hospital care.
van Kraaij J, van Oostveen C, Vermeulen H, Heinen M, Huis A, Adriaansen M, Peters J.
J Clin Nurs. 2020 Feb;29(3-4):447-458.

Workforce: leaders urge NHS to publish delayed plan as soon as possible.
Iacobucci G.
BMJ. 2020 Feb 4;368:m464.

Three ways to become a perioperative nurse leader regardless of your title.
Mills M.
AORN J. 2020 Feb;111(2):P16-P17

Leading diversity: Towards a theory of functional leadership in diverse teams.
Homan AC, Gündemir S, Buengeler C, van Kleef GA.
J Appl Psychol. 2020 Jan 23

The Chief Registrar role in the UK: leadership capacity and development of hybrid leaders.
Snelling I, Exworthy M, Ghezelayagh S.
J Health Organ Manag. 2020 Jan 23;
Evaluation of the first cohort of the Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP) Chief Registrar programme in 2016/7.

Impact of leadership development workshops in facilitating team-based practice transformation.
Willgerodt MA, Abu-Rish Blakeney E, Summerside N, Vogel MT, Liner DA, Zierler B.
J Interprof Care. 2020 Jan-Feb;34(1):76-86.