module specification

Professional Practice 3: Leadership and Service Improvement module completes the leadership and management pillar of clinical practice for physiotherapy students on this course. It utilises the maximising leadership framework of the Health Education England to structure the learning opportunities included as a part of the module. Students will explore leadership of self, others, and service improvement, and develop competencies that will prepare them for healthcare leadership at all levels of their clinical careers.

The module will provide opportunities for students to explore their own values, personality, and strengths within the context of contemporary leadership styles to develop self-confidence and emotional intelligence required for accountable leadership.  It will also critically consider the processes, frameworks and tools used to manage and improve healthcare services, business, and entrepreneurial skills. Furthermore, students will also have opportunities to prepare for their first job by considering mentoring and preceptorship programmes and how to optimise these opportunities in their first roles as a Band 5 Physiotherapist. The module will also continue the exploration of the HCPC’s standards of proficiencies by looking at standards related to leadership, service improvements.

Specifically, in this module, you will:
1. Explore leadership contexts in healthcare and leadership styles including the strengths and weaknesses.
2. Explore your own values, strengths, personality types, unconscious bias, cultural sensitivity.
3. Consider how to communicate for leadership and setting directions.
4. Investigate approaches to quality management and improvement of clinical services.
5. Consider your own leadership story and development plan.

Pre-requisite: All level 5 modules
Co-requisites: PT6000, PT6P01, PT6W51, PT6W52, PT6W53
Available for Study Abroad? NO

Knowledge
•    Leadership in Healthcare; leadership frameworks, leadership styles, advantages and disadvantages
•    Introduce knowledge by e-learning – Edward Jenner Leadership course.
•    Leadership theory and models
•    Responsibility for developing own leadership role (signposting activities as leadership in practice: managing workload, mentors, role modelling)
•    Theories and models for service improvement (service evaluation, audit, economic evaluation, risk management, project management, Quality Service Improvement Redesign - QSIR, Plan Do Study Act – PDSA)
•    Entrepreneurship and awareness of business service evaluation
•    Supporting the education of others
•    HCPC SOPs & SCPE related to leadership.

Skills
•    Service improvement skills
•    Project management skills
•    Entrepreneurship – Freelancing course with London Met Accelerator
•    Being a role model for junior students and staff on placement
•    Identifying and working with a mentor.

Attitudes
•    Physiotherapy framework to map personal development.

 

This course will utilise a blended learning approach of face-to face lectures, e-learning (Edward Jenner Leadership course), LinkedIn courses, workshops and group study.

In addition, students will receive keynote lectures from external lecturers and follow the freelance course provided by the London Metropolitan University Accelerator hub.

Students will also work in a group to develop a service improvement project as a part of developing their leadership and reflect on this as a part of portfolio of evidence.

By the end of this module students should:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of leadership for their roles in clinical practice through a reflection on their own values, personality, and strengths.
2. Demonstrate their developing leadership of self for maintenance of fitness to practice, working within scope of practice, building on strengths, being a role model and working with mentors for continuing professional development.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the need to apply a systematic approach to service evaluation and audit procedures for continuing quality improvement of clinical services.
4. Utilise a critical understanding of current theories and models for service improvement to develop a quality improvement project for a service experienced in placement 4.
5. Critically consider their leadership development needs to develop a personal plan for continuing leadership growth in their first job.

Module Reading List

Core textbooks
1. Professionalism and Ethics in Medicine. Springer New York, 2015. Web.

2. Higgs, J. Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions e-book J Higgs, MA Jones, S Loftus and N Christensen Elsevier 2008

3. Rogers, M. Communities of Practice for Systems Leadership, Myron Rogers KSS LLA NHS Leadership Academy

Articles
1. Espay AJ, Hausdorff JM, Sánchez-Ferro Á, Klucken J, Merola A, Bonato P, Paul SS, Horak FB, Vizcarra JA, Mestre TA, Reilmann R, Nieuwboer A, Dorsey ER, Rochester L, Bloem BR, Maetzler W; Movement Disorder Society Task Force on Technology. A roadmap for implementation of patient-centered digital outcome measures in Parkinson's disease obtained using mobile health technologies. Mov Disord. 2019 May;34(5):657-663.
2. Hunt, M. Taking culture seriously: considerations for physiotherapists Physiotherapy 2007 93 (3) 229-232
3. Sevenhuysen S, Farlie MK, Keating JL, Haines TP, Molloy E. Physiotherapy students and clinical educators perceive several ways in which incorporating peer-assisted learning could improve clinical placements: a qualitative study. J Physiother. 2015 Apr;61(2):87-92.
4. https://hbr.org/2000/03/leadership-that-gets-results

Documents and websites
• HEALTH & CARE PROFESSIONS COUNCIL (2023). Standards of Proficiency (Physiotherapy) London: HCPC. https://www.hcpc-uk.org/globalassets/resources/standards/standards-of-proficiency---physiotherapists.pdf
• HEALTH & CARE PROFESSIONS COUNCIL (2023). Standards of conduct, performance, and ethics. London: HCPC. https://www.hcpc-uk.org/globalassets/standards/standard-of-conduct-performance-and-ethics/revised-standards-2023/revised-standards-of-conduct-performance-and-ethics.pdf
• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (2019). Code of Members’ Professional Values & Behaviour.https://www.csp.org.uk/system/files/publication_files/000529_Code%20of%20Members%20Professional%20Values%20and%20Behaviours%202019.pdf
• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (2020). CSP Physiotherapy Framework. https://www.csp.org.uk/system/files/documents/2020-05/CSP%20Physiotherapy%20Framework%20May%202020.pdf
• HEALTH & CARE PROFESSIONS COUNCIL (2020) Standards of Continuing Professional Development: HCPC. https://www.hcpc-uk.org/standards/standards-of-continuing-professional-development/