Leadership training for learning disability nurses

HEE invites proposals from proven nursing leadership development providers to provide leadership training for learning disability nurses within this financial year.

Included:- • Learning disability nurses working within NHS or NHS commissioned services • Learning disability nurses seeking promotion and career development • Learning disability nursing final year students and those on preceptorships

Excluded:- • Anyone without a learning disability nurse registration or on a programme to registration • Learning disability nurses intending to leave the register

SPECIFICATION: Aims: To test the feasibility of utilising experiential leadership for leadership training as a means of: 1. Improving retention within the field of nursing 2. Improving leadership skills

Objectives: • Provide an experiential leadership course for a cohort of 20 Nurses, with option to extend a further two addition cohorts based on demonstrated demand • Recruit and select suitable applicants • Include learning elements: o Awareness of self o Improvement methods o Personal presence o Creative thinking • Programme to be delivered over 3 month duration • Be willing to work in collaboration with evaluation partners