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Communities of Practice Leadership Development Programme

Deepening improvement knowledge and developing the leadership skills needed to convene a Community of Practice.

This programme is currently closed for applications. We’ll be sharing opportunities to get involved again in the future.

The Health Innovation Network (HIN) and Q are working in partnership to deliver a popular, experiential learning programme specifically to address these challenges and provide all the building blocks for successful Community of Practice leadership. The programme is made up of five modules delivered as ten half-day virtual sessions and run for the course of one year starting in January 2023.

The programme is strongly based on practical experience and builds on successful Communities of Practice (CoPs), recognising the convener role as a key leadership skill for the complex issues faced by the health and care professionals of today.

Recent health and care system shifts, including the pandemic response and the move to Integrated Care Systems, have highlighted the need for social learning and shared transformation and innovation. The future of health and social care is one of blended in-person and virtual working. This programme aims to both meet those needs and support participants in delivering much-needed transformation through their communities.

Participants can place the experience of their own CoPs at the centre of every module and contribute to workshop content based on their own needs.

What is a Community of Practice?

Communities of Practice are groups of people who share a passion for improving practice in health and care. Practitioners from different backgrounds, with different perspectives, come together across organisations and across hierarchies to meet as equals to create new knowledge and develop potential solutions to those ‘wicked problems’ that go beyond what each of us can address in isolation.

These groups of professionals are brought together by a convener/co-convener to voluntarily explore how to bring about change for the better. By focusing on patient care across health and social care organisations, the work of these self-selecting Communities will have a real impact on patient experience and outcomes.

Conveners of CoPs have a passion for improving patient care but are often new to the concept of CoPs and are unsure of how best to ‘hold’ that space and to make this way of working ‘land’ in the health and social care environment.

Who could apply?

There were 28 places available.

This programme was designed specifically for health and care professionals looking to develop collective leadership capability, who already have, or are planning to establish a CoP, where they can apply the learning from this programme.

Participants are usually in a position to provide leadership through their community to support improvements in care for patients or service users

How to take part

Applications for the programme are currently closed. They were last open between 13 October – 25 November 2022.

To find out more about the programme visit the Health Innovation Network website.

We will update this page when there are future opportunities to apply.