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NHS Leadership Academy launches new systems leadership programme
The NHS Leadership Academy has launched a new programme aimed at developing the next generation of system leaders.
The Intersect programme, delivered in partnership with Leadership for Change, is open to just 40 people from across the public and third sectors in England. It is aimed at those in a position to lead system-wide change in the public sector.
Applicants to the year-long course are likely to already be senior leaders, possibly on or reporting to the executive team, in positions that require people to work across and beyond organisational boundaries.
By joining Intersect, the NHS Leadership Academy says applicants will be provided with in-depth learning and transformational development that leaders working across the public and third sector need to deliver high-quality services with limited resources in a highly complex environment.
Dr Nicholas Bradbury, head of systems leadership at the NHS Leadership Academy, said: “Intersect will demand a significant commitment from participants and the organisations from which they come.
“Through the programme, participants will need to be willing to undertake a deep exploration of themselves, to ask and to answer some probing and difficult questions.”
Participants will base their learning in real projects in their places of work and demonstrate the impact those projects, and their learning, have had. On completion of the programme, it is hoped that they will make a significant impact to the local health, social care and public services economy when they return to their workplace and will be expected to share their learning and to develop an understanding and capability around systems leadership in their locality.
Applications for the course are now open, and can be made through the NHS Leadership Academy’s website: http://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/grow/intersect/
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