Personalised Care: Peer Leadership Academy - Step Three
Learn about working collaboratively to effect change within the health and care system, and what it means to be a Peer Leader.
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Personalised Care: Peer Leadership Academy - Step Three
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Become a Peer Leader
This course builds on the Step 2 course and is the final step to becoming a Peer Leader.
You will further explore the introduction of personalised care in the NHS and the important role of Peer Leaders and strategic coproduction for ensuring it works well.
You will explore the qualities, skills, behaviours of a Peer Leader and how to tell your personal story effectively.
You will also learn about making change happen in the health and care system and reflect on some knotty issues from a range of different perspectives.
What topics will you cover?
- How change happens in big organisations
- How the NHS buys things
- National policy vs local implementation
- Introduction to Myers Briggs Type Indicator
- Our approach to strategic coproduction for personalised care
- How to share your personal story effectively
- The knowledge, skills, qualities and behaviours of a Peer Leader
When would you like to start?
Date to be announced
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Discuss how change happens in big organisations like the NHS
- Describe how the NHS buys things
- Discuss national policy vs local implementation
- Explore personal development using Myers Briggs Type Indicator
- Describe the approach to strategic coproduction for personalised care
- Demonstrate sharing a personal story effectively
- Describe the knowledge, skills, qualities of a Peer Leader
Who will you learn with?
My name is Jo Fitzgerald and my son, Mitchell, had one of the first personal health budgets. I work at NHS England leading the Lived Experience team.
My name is Colin Royle and I previously cared for my dad. He received a personal health budget in 2009 which transformed his life. I now work for NHS England.
Who developed the course?
Personalised Care Group at NHS England and NHS Improvement
As part of NHS England and NHS Improvement, the Personalised Care Group is responsible for ensuring that personalised care becomes ‘business as usual’ across the health and care system.
What's included?
Personalised Care Group at NHS England and NHS Improvement are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade, so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:
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- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
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- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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