Women in Healthcare Leadership Workshop

Description

Women in Healthcare Leadership Workshop

Our Aims For This Workshop:

• Become clear about your leadership style and philosophy.
• Understanding how to navigate yourself and your team in a VUCA environment.
• How to communicate with presence and impact.

Topic 1

Foundations For Effective Leadership

• Develop your leadership story – (know yourself)
• Your values, influences and leadership philosophy
• Clear vision and purpose as a leader 
• Adapting style to suit the context

Topic 2

Leading Through Rapid Change (Uncertainty)

• Exploring the VUCA environment (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous)
• Understanding the psychological process of change
• Resilience and stress management

Topic 3

Communication Skills For Influential Leaders

• How to prepare to be present so you have a presence
• Explore and understand your own innate communication style
• Importance of voice, pace, trust, and rapport
  
  

THE FACILITATOR

Ruth Sangale

Ruth has 20 years HR and OD experience in the public and private sectors, leaving the NHS in 2012 to set up her own business “Enjoy Work” and specialise in Creative Leadership development and executive coaching.

She works internationally coaching and running residential leadership programs for global organisations such as UNICEF, WHO, UN Women, and PLAN International and charitable NGOs in a range of countries including, Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Kenya, and Belize. In the UK she designs and delivers workshops for mostly the NHS, on topics such as career development, resilience and positive psychology, feedback skills, coaching skills for leaders and team development. She is an ICF-accredited coach and has an M Sc in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership.

In her work she uses creative tools such as drama, visualization, drawing, mindfulness and storytelling to stimulate creative thinking and develop leadership capability.

She has two daughters and in her free time loves hiking, climbing mountains and salsa dancing.

THE PANEL

Sam Foster - Chief Nursing Officer - Oxford University Teaching Hospitals

Sam joined the Board of Oxford University Hospitals NHSFT in September 2017 as an experienced Chief Nurse who previously worked at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust where she held the role of Chief Nurse for four years.

Sam has also worked in a number of Trusts in clinical, operational and educational roles. Sam's portfolio includes the professional leadership and education of over 5,000 Nurses, Midwives and AHPs.

In addition to the Executive leadership of the Trust Facilities and PFI Services, she is accountable for the Estates and delivery of the capital program. Sam leads the Urgent Care program across the Oxfordshire system.

Avey Bhatia - Chief Nursing Officer - Guys & St Thomas’ NHS Trust

Avey Bhatia is Chief Nurse at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust. Avey returned to the Trust as Chief Nurse in November 2020, having trained as a critical care nurse at St Thomas’ in the early part of her career. Avey qualified in 1991 and her clinical experience includes theatres, general intensive care, coronary care and cardiothoracic nursing. She held various staff nurse and sister posts at hospitals in London before becoming Chief Nurse and Director of Infection Prevention and Control at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2017. 

Avey holds a postgraduate diploma in health services management and a Masters in Public Administration. She is also the Trust’s Director of Patient Experience, and the executive lead for adults’ and children’s safeguarding, and for infection, prevention and control. Beyond Guy’s and St Thomas’, Avey is Vice President for the Florence Nightingale Foundation and Honorary Vice President of The Nightingale Fellowship. She is a Trustee for the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group. 

Caroline Alexander CBE - Group Chief Nurse - Barts NHS Trust

Caroline graduated as a nurse in 1987 from Edinburgh University (BSc/RGN) and has an MSc in Nursing Studies from South Bank University (2001). From 1987 to 1993 she specialised in nursing older people in Edinburgh and then London at Guy’s Hospital as a ward sister. Caroline then worked for the Foundation of Nursing Studies for three years supporting nurses to use research in practice.

In 1998 Caroline returned to the NHS and worked in Tower Hamlets in a range of roles within older people’s services. In 2005, Caroline took up her first Director post, as Director of Nursing and Therapies within Tower Hamlets PCT. With the clustering of PCTs in London in 2011, she took on the Director of Nursing and Quality within NHS East London and the City initially and then within NHS North East London when the clusters merged in 2012. until she joined NHS England as Regional Chief Nurse for London in April 2013. Caroline took up her current role of Chief Nurse for Barts Health in March 2016.

Caroline was a 2008 Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholar and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from City, University of London in 2017, Middlesex University in 2018 and University of East London in 2021. She is a Trustee of the Foundation of Nursing Studies. In 2020 she was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Who will attend?

• Emerging Leaders looking to step into management roles
• Current Leaders looking to progress into senior management roles

This workshop is open to any woman who works in health care and wants to take her next step in their career; women include trans women and non-binary people who are comfortable in a female-centered group.

Group Rate Discounts

2-3 people, 7% discount

4+ people, 20% discount

We have two group rates which you can take advantage of depending on the size of the group you wish to book:

Option 1️⃣

Groups between 2 & 3 are eligible for the 7% Discount. Please use this code at checkout: GROUP 2+ 

Option 2️⃣

For groups of over 4+ attendees, the eligible discount is 20%.  

Please use this code at checkout: GROUP 4+ 

Where do I add the discount code?