Health, care and home
Leadership across health, social care and housing.
Over several days, this flagship builds leadership across health, care and housing: public sector machinery, integration, homelessness and mental health, Housing First, trauma-informed organisations, lived experience, safeguarding and systems leadership.
- Level
- Flagship
- Learning time
- 22 hours
- Where
- Communities and systems
- Price
- £499
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Senior leaders working across health, social care, housing and homelessness services
Overview
People do not live their lives in separate systems, and the leaders who serve them cannot work that way either. This flagship begins with the machinery: the Senedd, the NHS in England and in Wales, and how policing is governed. It then turns to integration, from Walter Leutz's three levels to pooled funds, workforce, care closer to home and a capstone on Torbay and Gwent. Homelessness, mental health and multiple disadvantage follow, drawing on Hard Edges and the Welsh Adverse Childhood Experiences study, then Housing First and housing with care. The last section covers trauma-informed organisations, lived experience leadership, safeguarding, staff wellbeing and systems leadership in Wales and England.
Aims
The course exists to develop senior leaders who can lead across the boundaries between health, care and housing, build services that are safe for people who have lived with trauma, hold partnerships to shared purpose when nobody is in charge, and keep one person's life at the centre of every system decision.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Compare how health, care and policing are governed in Wales and England, and assess whether integration arrangements genuinely shape decisions.
- Apply Housing First principles and trauma-informed practice, including the Sanctuary Model, to make services safe for people who have lived with trauma.
- Assess where you sit on the spectrum from hero to host, and plan how to lead a partnership that nobody controls.
What you'll develop
Through the programme, you will be able to:
- Identify whether a policy area is devolved, reserved or partly devolved under the reserved powers model, and why that decides who you engage.
- Explain why Wales plans integration by region and how the Welsh model, in which health boards both plan and deliver care, shapes partnership and accountability.
- Set out the five steps of a good hospital discharge and explain why discharge is a shared regional responsibility rather than a hospital problem.
- Interpret the headline figures on rough sleeping and temporary accommodation in Wales and England, including how each nation counts and why the figures are not like for like.
- Explain why the building, rules and relationships of a service are part of the support, using SAMHSA's six principles and the five elements of a PIE.
- Distinguish lived experience, lived expertise and experts by experience, and explain why lived experience is a form of knowledge rather than only feedback.
- Explain why partnerships without shared budgets or shared risk tend to stay as conversations, using the Plymouth Alliance and Changing Futures as examples.
- Describe the role of Integrated Care Boards and the main steps in twenty years of English place-based reform.
Built from 16 parts.
22 hours of learning.
- 01Wales and the NHSThe Senedd and the NHS in EnglandBitesize · The Public Sector2 modules
- 02Health and policingThe NHS in Wales and policing governanceBitesize · The Public Sector2 modules
- 03Two nations, one ambitionIntegration in Wales and EnglandBitesize · Leading Health and Social Care Integration3 modules
- 04Money and peoplePooled budgets and workforce across boundariesBitesize · Leading Health and Social Care Integration2 modules
- 05Closer to home, clear on accountabilityCare closer to home, data and governanceBitesize · Leading Health and Social Care Integration2 modules
- 06Relationships over structuresLeading integration, with case studiesBitesize · Leading Health and Social Care Integration2 modules
- 07Hard edgesHomelessness, its scale and multiple disadvantageBitesize · Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage3 modules
- 08Minds under pressureMental health, homelessness and the lawBitesize · Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage2 modules
- 09A home firstHousing First and psychologically informed servicesBitesize · Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage2 modules
- 10Care, support and shared groundExtra care, supported living and dual regulationBitesize · Foundations of Social Housing2 modules
- 11Environments that healPsychologically informed environments and leadershipBitesize · Trauma-Informed Leadership and Organisations2 modules
- 12Expertise earned the hard wayLived experience leadership explainedBitesize · Lived Experience2 modules
- 13Working together, staying alertInformation sharing, reviews, domestic abuse and exploitationBitesize · Safeguarding for Leaders2 modules
- 14Holding the system togetherWorking across the system and staff wellbeingBitesize · Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage2 modules
- 15Leading what no one controlsComplex adaptive systems and systems leadersBitesize · Systems Leadership2 modules
- 16Where law and place meetWelsh law, integrated care and devolutionBitesize · Systems Leadership2 modules