Research in Practice is offering a new Developing Practice Leaders: Leading across boundaries programme combining leadership models and approaches with opportunities for professional growth. Aimed at those who have responsibility for leading practice across adults and children’s social care, organisations can purchase one or more individual places.
Explore, recognise and develop leadership skills on a dedicated multi-organisational Leadership Development Programme with opportunities for professional growth.
We are delivering a five-day programme to support the development of leaders with guest speakers, reflective group sessions, individual mentoring sessions. Relevant for anyone working for an organisation that supports children and families, adults and communities, the programme is aimed at those who have responsibility for leading teams.
This offer provides a cost-effective option for individuals, smaller organisations and for organisations who need to extend their learning budget further and can pay per place.
What does the programme offer?
Consider leadership models and systems approaches, explore and understand anti-racist leadership and allyship, and reflect on diversity, privilege and power in roles and organisations. This programme will enable you to recognise and develop your leadership skills with opportunities for professional growth.
Featuring guest speakers, the first Developing Practice Leaders: Leading across boundaries will begin in May 2025 and offers:
- Five full-day online workshops that will include taught elements and activities designed to deepen and expand learning, alongside some short exercises between sessions.
- Two small group reflective sessions per programme with colleagues from a range of local areas.
- Up to three one-to-one sessions with an experienced mentor.
Who is the programme for?
The programme is for anyone working for an organisation that supports children and families, or adults and communities across the social care sector. It is aimed at a wide range of roles who have responsibility for leading practice, such as:
- Approved Mental Health Professional Leads (AMHP)
- Practice focused Assistant Directors
- Principal Occupational Therapists (POT)
- Principal Social Workers (PSW)
Bookings
Register your interest in purchasing one or multiple places on the Developing Practice Leaders: Leading across boundaries programme.
We are opening individual bookings at an introductory price of £1,900 per participant for the first phase of the programme. We expect the programme to be very popular.
Further information
Find out more about the programme. You can also contact us to find out more about purchasing a place.
Your organisations can also directly commission programmes and choose a combination of modules that best meet their learning needs.
Research in Practice expertise
At Research in Practice, we have an excellent track record for engaging across regions and supporting change at local system level. We are values-driven and ensure that our focus is driven by a network of over 200 organisations nationally.
We have proven experience and skills in developing multi-level practice leadership programmes across various local authorities, trusts and wider organisations. We bring expertise from delivering the Supervising the Supervisor Programme, the Practice Supervisor Development Programme and a recent adult social care leadership programme. We have also developed over 150 resources on practice leadership and reflective supervision.
Developing Practice Leaders: Leading across boundaries
Individual places for practice leaders on a multi-organisational development programme designed to support learning at a systems level across adults, and children and families social care.
Leading across boundaries
Working across safeguarding partnerships and the interface between health and social care, requires professionals to learn from and reach across systems. Effective work in transitions to adulthood also requires professionals to cross boundaries. How we can develop leaders in this space?