Sustainable Innovation in Nursing and Midwifery Leadership Training  

Available at no cost to registered nurses and midwives. 

There are limited spaces available. The course is funded and supported by the Burdett Trust as part of three new course offers for nurses and midwives. 

Who is this course for?

This course is open to all board and near board-level nurses and midwives and those managing multiple teams or large scale programmes and services.

Course outline 

Senior nursing and midwifery leaders have a key role in inspiring the widespread culture and behaviour change necessary to achieve sustainable transformation across the health and social care sectors. This interactive training package is tailored to your requirements and designed to inspire you as a senior leader and equip you to lead, accelerate and measure progress towards a fairer, greener future. 

Focusing on the unique opportunities of leadership for sustainability, this training empowers leaders to fulfil their role in delivering Green Plans and become catalysts for lasting change within the health and social care systems and in the wider society. The training will demonstrate the associated benefits of sustainability including reducing costs, freeing up capacity, improving staff wellbeing and reducing health inequalities.

During the interactive workshop you will have the opportunity to gain viewpoints from other nurse and midwife leaders, to share good practice and ideas and to receive expert guidance from our facilitators on how you can motivate your teams and accelerate sustainable transformation across your organisations to tackle this important challenge.  

Course structure 

This course is delivered in three parts:

Pre-workshop briefing 

To establish a shared baseline of understanding and prepare all participants to engage fully in the training we give you access to a pre-workshop briefing on our learning platform. 

You will learn about:  

• Risks to health and healthcare resulting from climate change 

• Potential benefits of sustainable transformation and how these align with and help to deliver on your existing priorities 

• Relevant regulatory responsibilities (UK) 

• The Sustainable Quality Improvement methodology 

• Measuring improvement across the triple bottom line 

• Essentials of measuring a carbon footprint 

• Key characteristics of nurse and midwife leadership for driving sustainable transformation 

• Refining or operationalising your existing Green Plan 

• A compendium of relevant case studies 

The Workshop 

A 2-hour discussion-based workshop focused on strategies to accelerate sustainable transformation. This will include group discussions covering:  

• How to apply leadership and communication skills to achieve culture change and engage and empower staff. 

• How to advocate for and encourage adaptation and mitigation through prevention, lean care pathways and patient empowerment, as well as leading policy change and translating legislation and regulation into tangible action. 

• How to facilitate acceleration of sustainable change, embed sustainable considerations in core processes, and manage to prioritise and align with existing priorities.  

As the main outcome of the workshop, you will identify specific actions based on the briefing and the group discussions to take forward after the workshop ends. 

Follow up session 

A 1-hour follow-up session, typically 3 months after the workshop, to review progress, share successes, discuss challenges and possible mitigation, and agree next steps. 

Facilitators

How much does this course cost?

For registered nurses and midwives this course is entirely free. The course is funded and supported by the Burdett Trust.

Ready to book?

Please book your place by completing the details on this online form.