The Strategic Leadership in Health Care program empowers healthcare professionals to develop leadership skills for enhanced service delivery. It emphasizes strategic thinking, collaboration, and the application of leadership theories to practice. The program equips students with the knowledge and abilities to lead teams, improve quality, and reduce costs in healthcare settings.

The Strategic Leadership in Health Care (Level 7) program is designed to develop clinical leadership skills to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of healthcare delivery. It emphasizes a strategic approach to operating within a complex system, inspiring, supporting, and teaching others, and leading teams. The program aims to:

• Enable students to critically evaluate major leadership theories.
• Enable students to reflect on the relationship between leadership and management.
• Enable students to understand the role of strategic leadership in improving quality and cost effectiveness.
• Encourage students to apply leadership theory to day-to-day healthcare practice.
• Equip students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to develop leadership behaviors in current roles and prepare for future leadership roles.
• Encourage students to reflect on their leadership style and experience within the context of their role and organization and to develop self-knowledge.
  

Available as a standalone module: Yes 

Attendance (Please note, this is subject to change for future intakes)

Dates: For attendance information, please see the top of this page. Please note, if the module is full or closed for the intake(s) this academic year, dates may not appear. 

Venue: LSBU Southwark Campus

Typical intake(s): Semester 2

Career Benefits
The program enhances employability by developing students' capacity to plan and implement leadership strategies to achieve the goals of the "bigger picture" in healthcare, thus preparing them for more senior roles.

Assessment:

• 4000 word written assignment