You as a Collaborative Leader (YaCL)

13/09/2022 -

You as a Collaborative Leader (YaCL) is a programme for health and social services professionals working in integration, to develop the skills and knowledge to lead effectively across integrated settings where effective collaboration is essential.

YaCL is designed to help you recognise your own leadership strengths and sources of resilience and how you can best use these to lead change more collaboratively and effectively to deliver health and social care integration. With a mixture of personal coaching, peer thinking and group workshop sessions, it is designed specifically to support you to increase your self-awareness as a leader, create greater presence, influence more effectively and have greater impact as a collaborative leader.

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

Senior Social Worker (Social Work)

Senior Social Worker

Role:

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities may be:

Working in national or regional committees across HSCP
Shaping integrated services
Managing large or multiple teams

Challenges

Challenges you may face in your role might include:

Integrated role and project that demonstrates need for collaboration across multiple stakeholders and partners
Relationship complexity arising from different cultures and priorities across systems

Personal

You may personally be:

Open to challenge and change and eager for development
You may want to share and learn from others, connect with colleagues from across the system and have thinking challenged

Career Stage

Your career stage might look like:

Middle to Senior Managers
Looking to develop in your current role

Previous Roles

Roles some of YaCL’s previous participants have had

Worked up the ladder to a leadership role

Care Home Manager (Social Care)

Care Home Manager

Role:

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities may be:

Responsible for a number of homes
Supporting integrated work to improve services

Challenges

Challenges you may face in your role might include:

Integrated role and project that demonstrates need for collaboration across multiple stakeholders and partners
Relationship complexity arising from different cultures and priorities across systems

Personal

You may personally be:

Open to challenge and change, eager for development
Opportunity to share, learn from others and connect with others across the system and have thinking challenged

Career Stage

Your career stage might look like:

Currently in Senior management or owner of care home with a number of years experience

Previous Roles

Roles some of YaCL’s previous participants have had:

Worked up the ladder to a leadership role

GP Cluster Lead (Health)

GP Cluster Lead

Role:

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities may be:

GP with additional role and responsibility for service improvement across specialism or cluster of practices

Challenges

Challenges you may face in your role might include:

Integrated role and project that demonstrates need for collaboration across multiple stakeholders and partners
Relationship complexity arising from different cultures and priorities across systems

Personal

You may personally be:

Open to challenge and change, eager for development
Opportunity to share, learn from others and connect with others across the system and have thinking challenged

Career Stage

Your career stage might look like:

Mid-career GP, taking on additional responsibilities

Previous Roles

Roles some of YaCL’s previous participants have had:

GP career ladder with a number of years experiences

Find out more about YaCL

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Other learners said:

“This is one of the most valuable learning experiences I have had after attending numerous events and self-directed learning opportunities.”

“It’s an excellent course – I highly recommend it. Come prepared to share your experience and be vulnerable, you will learn that we are all in the same boat and issues you thought only affected you, affect us all. I learned a lot and made some really good connections. Its excellent to network with people in a wide variety of teams and get different perspectives.”

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