Skills for Care have launched a campaign aimed at developing and supporting everyday leadership in adult social care.
The national workforce development charity is running its ‘Everyday leadership’ campaign throughout June and July to help leaders and managers in the sector identify what good leadership looks like.
The everyday leaders campaign also wants to promote the idea that leadership qualities and behaviours are not restricted to senior staff and managers. Skills for Care says that all care workers can demonstrate everyday acts of leadership, allyship and support, and that these are essential components of a well-led and successful care provider.
Explaining why strong leadership is so important for care services, they state:
“Great leadership doesn’t just shape how care is delivered; it shapes the culture around it. It creates environments where staff feel genuinely supported, valued and heard, enabling them to perform at their best and provide the highest quality support.”
They also highlight their latest ASC-WDS (adult social care workforce datasets) report, which shows that stable and effective leadership is a “critical factor” when it comes to staff retention and securing positive CQC ratings.
Identifying everyday leadership qualities
Everyday leadership can help ensure safe, effective and compassionate care services through sharing ideas, innovating, raising concerns about poor practice and guiding colleagues.
Care workers may demonstrate leadership qualities by using their own initiative to make decisions, supporting others and taking accountability for their own wellbeing and development.
Throughout June and July, Skills for Care will be highlighting the importance of everyday leadership by sharing valuable insights, resources and thought leadership pieces from care sector experts.
Get involved in the Everyday Leadership campaign
People can join in the conversation using the hashtag #EverydayLeadership on social media.
Skills for Care also offers practical tools, learning materials, webinars and funding to help individuals strengthen their leadership skills.
They have also developed the Leadership Qualities Framework (LQF) to describe what good leadership looks like, identifying the values, attitudes and behaviours required for high quality, effective leadership in adult social care. It can be used by individuals to review and reflect on their leadership performance.
Skills for Care also has a positive culture toolkit for leaders of adult social care providers. This can be accessed by providers looking for support as they look to establish, maintain and improve their workplace culture to ensure it is “inclusive, compassionate and collaborative.”
Training for workers and leaders in care
First Response Training (FRT) is a leading, national training provider. They deliver over 7,000 courses each year in the fields of health and safety, first aid, fire safety, food hygiene, mental health, health and social care and more.
Their health and social care range includes Moving and Assisting, Person Centred Care, Duty of Care, Safeguarding Adults and many more.
A trainer from FRT says:
“Leaders and managers in care help to ensure the effectiveness of care services but to do this they need the right help, support and guidance.
“They also need staff with the right, values, attitudes and behaviours and many of these could also be everyday leadership qualities. Developing these qualities in staff will help improve workplace culture and lead to better outcomes for people drawing on care and support.
“It’s great that Skills for Care is taking this time to support managers, leaders and all care workers across the sector to help them identify good leadership.”
For more information on the training that FRT can provide, please call them today on freephone 0800 310 2300 or send an e-mail to info@firstresponsetraining.com.