Core Managers: Inclusive Leadership in Health and Care

Manage health and care teams with powerful inclusive leadership strategies

The importance of inclusive leadership is increasingly understood and sought after across almost every industry. This includes the health and care sector, and managers and supervisors need to develop these leadership skills if they want to stay relevant in the workplace. This six-week course from the NHS Leadership Academy will help you to do just that.

Get familiar with EDI basics

On this course, you’ll get an in-depth look at the core concepts relating to equality, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) policies. With this foundation, you’ll be able to examine and understand the impact that racism, privilege, intersectionality, and allyship have on levels of prejudice and acceptance at work.

Learn to put your leadership skills into action

After gaining a sound knowledge of EDI basics, you’ll move on to putting that theory into practice. As you move through the course, you’ll get to reflect on how your work experiences have shaped your own attitudes, identify staff and groups who need support, and design policies that allow you to lead with inclusion and allyship.

Study with top NHS Leadership Academy experts

Dr Sandi Dunne, the lead educator for this course, holds multiple qualifications including an MA and MSc Executive Coach degree. In her role as an NHS Leadership Academy faculty member, she also acts as a Diversity and Inclusion expert. With Dr Dunne’s guidance and the Leadership Academy’s commitment to improving healthcare by developing leadership skills, you can be sure that this course will prepare you to manage EDI workplaces with compassion and insight.

This course is designed for health and care managers and supervisors. As the first in a series of training sessions on equality, diversity and inclusion in medical services, it will help you develop core inclusive leadership skills.

• Understanding key EDI concepts
• Welcome to Inclusive Leadership
• What is Social Justice, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (SJEDI)?
• Why does SJEDI matter?
• How do we incorporate SJEDI into our working practices?
• Putting principles into practice
• Theorising race and understanding racism
• What is racism?
• Why do we need to understand race and racism?
• How can we constructively challenge racism and strive for positive change in the workplace?
• Putting principles into practice
• Power and privilege
• What is power?
• Why do we need to understand power and privilege?
• How can we respond to power dynamics and check our own privilege?
• Putting principles into practice
• Intersectionality
• What is intersectionality?
• Why does intersectionality matter?
• How can we tackle social inequality?
• Putting principles into practice
• Intersectional lifelines
• What is an intersectional lifeline?
• Why create an intersectional lifeline?
• How do we create and use an intersectional lifeline?
• Putting principles into practice
• Allyship
• What is allyship?
• Why do we need inclusive authentic allies?
• How can we become inclusive and authentic allies?
• Putting principles into practice
• Final thoughts