Strategic Leadership in a Crisis Training Course

The Strategic Leadership in a Crisis course is a one-day course designed by the Department of Health and the Health Protection Agency for those wishing to gain further insight into developing strategic leadership skills. The course aims to prepare delegates to lead their Trust or PCT through an emergency, whilst supporting a Strategic Co-ordinating Group.

The course opens by looking at local and regional issues, and then focuses on the challenges involved in creating situational awareness, and the recording of strategic decisions.  Delegates will be given the opportunity to participate in activities and discussions on strategic leadership issues.

Learning objectives

Aim

To prepare delegates to lead their Trust or PCT through an emergency, whilst supporting a Strategic Co-ordinating Group.

Objectives

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

1. Identify the general and health-specific strategic concerns arising from a selection of case studies in Integrated Emergency Management.
2. Determine and evaluate a strategic aim for the combined response to emergencies, and compose health sector objectives.
3. Analyse the challenges involved in creating situational awareness, making decisions and recording them.
4. Provide a strategic health perspective to the analysis of a case study in Integrated Emergency Management.
5. Describe the UK Concept of Operations, in terms of the inter-relationship between local, regional and national tiers or resilience co-ordination.
    

Before attending the course delegates are encouraged to complete a pre-course questionnaire and online e-learning module. These will be made available to delegates via the eHealth online e-learning platform. Further details about this will be sent to delegates once they have registered for the course.

Who should attend

Delegates should be On-call Directors from NHS trusts, primary care trusts and strategic health authorities.
 

Contact for course details and booking

There are a number of Department of Health funded courses being run throughout the year. Places on these courses are free to suitable delegates.
For enquiries or to book your place on this course in your region please contact your Strategic Health Authority Emergency Planning team.
 

Course dates

Remaining Course dates for 2011/12:

Course dates for 2012/13 will be advertised in April 2012. Please visit this page at that time for further details.

Last reviewed: 15 November 2011