Strategic Clinical Leadership HEA4208

Overview

The aim of the module is to provide a critical and evaluative perspective on leadership theories, styles and approaches in the context of health and social care. It will facilitate the further enhancement of skills in the transfer of theoretical perspectives to practice with a focus on strategic clinical leadership.

Module code:	HEA4208
Level:	7
Module credits:	20
Cost for new students:	£1000 for 2024/25 academic year

If you are an existing student who is undertaking this module as part of a programme, your fee will have been advised to you by email. You can also check your fees online. For any queries, please contact [email protected].

If your tuition fee is being paid by a sponsor or you are a sponsor paying a student’s fee, you are required to send a copy of a purchase order to [email protected].

For further guidance please visit: Sponsored students – Edge Hill University

Who is this module for?

This module is for healthcare professionals working within health and/or social care. Clinicians and Managers.

No pre- or co-requisites: Core module for the MSc Leadership Development programme – clinical leadership pathway. Optional module on the MSc Leadership Development programme – medical leadership and leadership & management pathways. Optional module on the PGC Medical Leadership programme. Optional module on a range of PG programmes.

What are the key aims of the module?

• Provide a critical perspective on leadership theories and practice
• Develop understanding of leadership within health and social care context
• Increase skills to transfer leadership strategies to clinical and organisational practice

How will I study?

Mode of delivery: Blended learning based on a hybrid Model.
This module will be delivered through blended learning based on a hybrid model. A hybrid model is ‘an educational approach where some individuals participate in-person and some participate online synchronously (at the same time).’ The tutor(s) deliver sessions and teach remote and in-person learners synchronously using appropriate technology, meaning that the students are taught together in ‘real time’. This means some of your teaching sessions will be delivered in-person and some are online synchronous delivery. If you are unable to attend in-person, with your Module Leader’s permission, you can attend the in-person teaching session, online synchronously.

What will I study?

• Strategic context – National and international drivers for change, policy, culture, politics and power in health and social care and implications for clinical leaders
• Leadership theory, frameworks and approaches
Organisation vision, values, mission statement
Stakeholder value and power
Multifactorial influences on the role of the leader
Leaders influence and wider networks including professional networks, Communication – conflict resolution and negotiation
• Role of leaders/clinical leaders within health and social care.

How will I be assessed?

An assignment to include a critical review of the strategic clinical leadership context (to include policy, drivers for change, culture) and an appraisal of the leadership theory and frameworks in relation to clinical leaders. It will also include critical discussion of the multi-factorial influences and the impact on self as clinical leader 4,000 words.

On successful completion you will:

1 Critically appraise the strategic leadership context and its impact on the role of clinical leaders within health and/or social care.
2 Critically appraise leadership frameworks and models applicable to clinical leaders and critically debate their relevance to effective clinical leadership within health and/or social care.
3 Demonstrate a critical conceptual analysis of the strategic multi-factorial influences which impact on the role of leaders within health and/or social care and critically reflect on the impact on own current or future leadership role.

Study dates and venues

How to apply

Module availability varies from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Due to the popularity of some modules it may be that the module is fully booked when your application is received. We will include your details on a waiting list and allocate you a place on the next available intake.

We encourage you to apply as early as possible to give you the best chance to obtain a place on your preferred cohort, module applications will close as soon as the module is full. Applications received within two weeks of the start date may have to be considered for a later cohort.

For details of how to apply, please visit the apply page.

Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Due to the popularity of some modules it may be that the module is fully booked when your application is received. We will include your details on a waiting list and allocate you a place on the next available intake

Contact us

For further module information, please contact the Module Co-ordinator – Dr Axel Kaehne : email axel.kaehne@@edgehill.ac.uk

Or you can contact the Medical School email on [email protected].

Pathways

• MSc Advanced Clinical Practice
• MSc Leadership Development