Short Course

Leadership for Allied Health Professions

Are you an Allied Health Professional looking to develop your leadership skills for clinical practice? Our Leadership for Allied Health Professions short course is for you.

On this short course, you’ll discover how to effectively lead and work as part of a team. Build your confidence in your own leadership skills and become more self-aware. You'll identify current drivers for change in health and social care. These include political, economic, social, and technological factors.

Undertake leadership self-assessments and explore your own strengths. Discover your areas for development as a leader. Consider how “who you are” impacts on those you work with, your service and your organisation. Take part in action learning sets so you can learn to support your peers and work together.

As part of the course, you will attend a three-day residential leadership development experience in the hills of Wales. This includes two nights staying in a fantastic hostel. This is the perfect opportunity to get away and learn about yourself as a leader. You'll take part in exciting experiences, giving you the chance to get out of your comfort zone. There is no extra cost for this as it is included in the module price. This covers accommodation, catering, facilitation and travel from Preston Campus if required.

Why study with us

This short course is suitable for all Allied Health Professionals who are keen to develop as leaders within their roles.
You'll get a three-day residential leadership development experience in the hills of Wales. There is no extra cost for this.
The rest of the module is online, so you can make it work around your current working routine or other commitments.

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Module overview

Our short course will help Allied Health Professionals become effective leaders of people. You will develop the knowledge, skills and attributes required for effective leadership of people. You’ll gain an understanding of how to effectively work as an individual or team member. And you'll reflect on your own values and principles that underpin how you currently work.

The course is suitable for all Allied Health Professionals who want to develop as leaders, or progress their career.

The module will start with an online day in early September. We will familiarise you with the module and how it runs, and make sure you can navigate your way around the resources on Blackboard. We will also help you start to think about “who you are” as a leader. Following this, there will be three residential days in Wales, applying leadership theory and behaviours in the hills, lakes and rivers.

After we return from Wales, we will have three days of online learning and two evening discussion sessions (6:30 – 8:00pm). These sessions will be spread from October to January, perfect for fitting around your other commitments.

Award: Short Course
Level: Short Course / CPD
Delivery: Blended learning environment. Three day residential, all other learning via Microsoft Teams.
Study mode: Part-time
Duration: 30 weeks
Start date: September

Residential lead

Dr Samantha McElligott

Leadership Consultant and Outdoor Education Practitioner

As a Leadership Consultant, Samantha’s motivation and expertise focuses on developing others to become more confident, resilient, and to show them how to develop effective and transformational leadership behaviours.

Originally, she completed a joint honours degree in Law and French from Keele University in 2000. Concurrently, she focused her passion for outdoor learning as President of the University’s Mountaineering Society. She eventually chose education and development over law and has spent over 20 years working as a Professional Outdoor Instructor, Performance Coach, Development Trainer and Expedition Leader.

Keen to keep learning along the way, Samantha has also studied Life Coaching and Performance Coaching, NLP, CBT. She completed both a Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring (Wolverhampton University, 2010) and a Postgraduate Certificate of Higher Education (Bangor University, 2013).

Samantha’s ensuing Ph.D research at Bangor University (2015) examined transformational leadership in the context of overseas expeditions and the impact on participants’ self-esteem. The research was presented at International Sports Psychology Conferences. It won the student poster prize at the DSEP conference in Manchester (2013). Her research has been integrated into national governing body assessment criteria, elevating and accrediting the role of effective leadership within the outdoors.

Now, she practises as a Mental Health First Aid Trainer and Leadership Consultant. She specialises in the development of transformational leadership and performance coaching behaviours. Still passionate about allowing people to see themselves as capable, worthy and supported individuals. She has worked with a number of clients who share her need to help people grow. Working with the Army since 2016, helping to develop a training course to strengthen knowledge and confidence in developmental theory and techniques; the Royal Naval Women’s Network and UCLan developing women’s confidence programmes (Leading Lancashire project, 2022); UCLan Frontier Education courses to develop confidence and resilience in students; Mountain Training UK to develop leadership and mentoring training and resources to support those in the outdoor industry.

Module dates 2024

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Date	Time	Session
Wednesday 4 September	Full day	Online taught
Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 September	Residential at The Rocks Hostel (overnight 18 and 19 September)	Residential stay in Wales
Wednesday 9 October	Evening - 6.30pm to 8.00pm	Online discussion
Friday 25 October	Full day	Online taught
Wednesday 20 November	Evening - 6.30pm to 8.00pm	Online discussion
Friday 6 December	Full day	Online taught
Friday 10 January 2025	Full day	Online taught
Wednesday 12 to Friday 14 February 2025	One hour per person	Assessment

Entry requirements

Fees and funding

Assessment

Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module a student will be able to:

Engage in critical discussion on the nature of leadership in relation to current social, political, technological, and economic drivers within AHP practice in health or social care.
Critically discuss the theoretical basis of leadership underpinning theory, models, and methods of developing leadership of self and others within organisations
Critically analyse the challenge of being an AHP leader in practice and the inherent tensions imposed by personal, professional, and organisational demands on the role.
Critically evaluate the impact of current leadership approaches in meeting service transformation and quality improvement using a range of tools and methods.

Learning environment

Academic expertise

Progression routes

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