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Leading for the Future

The Leading for the Future programme is about building leadership capacity and developing leaders’ capabilities across the health and care system.  It is a package of leadership and management development designed specifically for those in senior leadership positions in health (both clinical and non-clinical), social care and voluntary organisations.   

Supporting participants to work with complexity through Adaptive Leadership working with different approaches to leadership such as Systems, Compassionate, Collective and Social Leadership.

Click on the tabs below to see social care, social work and health examples of who would be suitable for this programme.

Head of Service (Social Work, Social Care, Health, Third and Voluntary)

Head of Service

Head of Service

Role:

Responsibilities


Your responsibilities may be:

  • Responsible for a range of activities/services between and within organisations regionally or nationally

Challenges

Challenges you may face in your role might include:

  • Supports multi-professional work-streams and contributes to organisational corporate objectives, with strategic leadership in your field of expertise

Personal

You may personally be:

  • You will be open to challenge and change, wishing to learn from others across the system and have your thinking challenged, to bring best public value

Career Stage

Your career stage might look like:

  • Senior manager, looking to optimise your performance in your current role, or you may be aspiring to the next step in your career journey

Previous Roles

Roles some of LftF’s previous participants have had:

Social Work and Social Care:

  • Head of Care
  • Head of Projects and Partnerships
  • Head of Housing

Third Sector

  • Head of Income Development

Health:

  • Head of Service – Air Ambulance
  • Head of Service – Children’s Health Care and Justice
  • Head of Health and Safety

Senior Manager (Social Work, Social Care, Health, Third and Voluntary)

Senior Manager

Senior Manager

Role:

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities may be:

  • In social work, social care and the third sector, you would be responsible for several services nationally, which may be located within different local authority and NHS Board areas
  • In health, you would have overall management of a major workstream within or across sites

Challenges

Challenges you may face in your role might include:

  • Responsible for service improvement and change in a range of service areas
  • Required to negotiate, motivate, and lead without formal authority
  • May have a commissioning role

Personal

You may personally be:

  • You will be open to challenge and change, wishing to learn from others across the system and have your thinking challenged, to bring best public value

Career Stage

Your career stage might look like:

  • Senior manager, looking to optimise your performance in your current role, or you may be aspiring to the next step in your career journey

Previous Roles

Roles some of LftF’s previous participants have had:

Social Work, Social Care and Third Sector:

  • Senior Education Officer
  • Senior Development Manager
  • Senior Planning Officer

Health

  • Senior Programme Manager
  • Senior Nurse
  • Senior Improvement Advisor

Service Manager (Social Work, Social Care and Health)

Service Manager

Service Manager

Role:

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities may be:

  • Responsible for managing Team Leads/Senior Charge Nurses and for strategic leadership and operational management for health and/or social care services

Challenges

Challenges you may face in your role might include:

  • Responsible for a range of health and/or social work professions, operating in and extremely high profile, complex and fast-moving environment

Personal

You may personally be:

  • You will be open to challenge and change, wishing to learn from others across the system and have your thinking challenged, to bring best public value

Career Stage

Your career stage might look like:

  • Senior manager, looking to optimise your performance in your current role, or you may be aspiring to the next step in your career journey

Previous Roles

Roles some of LftF’s previous participants have had:

Social Work and Social Care:

  • Service Manager, Social Services
  • Services Manager Intermediate Care and Rehabilitation Services
  • Service Manager, Children and Families Locality Services (Social Work)

Health

  • Clinical Service Manager
  • Service Manager, Adult Mental Health, and Specialisms
  • Service Manager Ambulatory Care, Diagnostics and Theatres

Associate Director (Health)

Associate Director

Associate Director

Role:

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities may be:

  • In health, responsible at a senior level for a profession or specialism and involved in national or regional work

Challenges

Challenges you may face in your role might include:

  • Responsible for defining components of your board’s strategic plan, for example purposeful collaboration with other public sector bodies which contribute to the health agenda

Personal

You may personally be:

  • You will be open to challenge and change, wishing to learn from others across the system and have your thinking challenged, to bring best public value

Career Stage

Your career stage might look like:

  • Senior manager, looking to optimise your performance in your current role, or you may be aspiring to the next step in your career journey

Previous Roles

Roles some of LftF’s previous participants have had:

  • Associate Medical Director
  • Deputy Director of Finance
  • Associate Director Innovation in Health and Care

The broad aims of Leading for the Future are: 

  • To provide a challenging development experience for those in senior leadership positions, focused around their leadership and management skills and behaviours, to enable their delivery of service objectives.
    • To support the professional and career development of those in senior leadership positions across health & social care and partner organisations. 
    • To enable participants to handle complexity, to engage with the public, and to work more effectively in partnership across the health & social care system and wider public services. 

To build leadership capacity and facilitate networks for shared learning and exchange of good practice across the health & social care system and wider public services in Scotland.

Find out more about Leading for the Future

Other learners said:

‘LFTF made me more confident in my role as a leader within my organisation. It helped me to see the bigger picture and to delegate.’ 

‘Since this programme I have felt more empowered to delegate more responsibility to others, supporting their development, and increasing my capacity to focus on improving the service.’  

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