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Developing strong, effective leadership, compassionate culture and behaviours

We are supporting a number of initiatives to help develop and enhance compassionate cultures within our workforce, including...

 

The Mental Health Team Manager Development Programme

This is a 9-month leadership and management development opportunity for current and aspiring mental health team managers across health, social care, and third sector mental health services in Wales. The programme focuses on leadership priorities within NHS Wales, such as compassionate and collective leadership, psychological safety, patient safety and digital improvement/data driven services.

Mentorship Scheme

This launched in October 2024, open to all leaders, of all professions, working within mental health services in Wales. Training for the first cohort of 20 mentors starts in October, with mentoring sessions beginning in November. This will provide new leaders, leaders transitioning to a more senior leadership or management role, and leaders who wish to improve in a particular area of leadership the opportunity to access 12-18 months of leadership mentorship from an experienced leader.

    Supervision Hub

    After detailed engagement with the sector a plan was developed to bring a supervision hub to the HEIW National Leadership Portal ‘Gwella’ with the sense that “while not all leaders are supervisors, all supervisors are leaders”. This would combine an emphasis on compassionate leadership and an overarching model that would explore aspects of education, evaluation, restoration and improvement without seeking to standardise supervision for different professions and services. This ambitious project will empower the workforce to both offer and receive supervision that is clear and well defined, measurable in its impact, can be attained by all, feels meaningful, and is recognised as a good use of time for all. The first phase of the Supervision Hub is now live.

    Mental Health Online Leadership Hub 

    The portal is available to all leaders and aspiring leaders. This resource offers links to all the leadership development programmes available to mental health leaders and managers as well as a range of interesting articles and strategic and policy documents. The aim of this hub is to bring all things relating to mental health leadership development into one place.

    HEIW offers a range of other development programmes available to healthcare leaders, including:

    To find out more please contact the mental health programme team