Discover practical tools, expert insights and learning material to help you develop everyday leadership skills to creative inclusive workplaces and deliver high-quality care and support.
Throughout June and July, our ‘everyday leadership’ campaign will explore what good leadership looks like and how you can demonstrate those skills and behaviours no matter what your job role. We’ll be looking at the need to lead inclusively and promote allyship to support minoritised groups and those with different protected characteristics.
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. Our most recent ASC-WDS data shows that stable and effective leadership is a critical factor in determining staff retention, as well as CQC ratings.
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Support for everyday leadership
Discover helpful resources to strengthen your leadership skills:
Practical tools
Leadership starts with me
Watch our five short films designed to support the development of leadership skills in frontline workers. The films can be used in supervisions or as a group exercise in a team meeting.
View the films and guidance
Leadership Qualities Framework (LQF)
The LQF explains what good leadership looks like and describes the attitudes and behaviours needed for high quality leadership at all levels across the social care workforce.
Explore the Leadership Qualities Framework
A positive culture toolkit for adult social care
This toolkit outlines what a positive workplace culture looks like and offers guidance on how to build, sustain, and, when necessary, transform your existing culture to be more inclusive, compassionate, and collaborative.
Access the toolkit
The culture of an organisation is the feeling it gives, the atmosphere it creates, how it’s perceived both internally and externally.
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Learning materials
Creating a positive workplace culture seminar
A supportive, interactive environment where you’ll gain practical insights and strategies to build and sustain a positive workplace culture that truly supports team wellbeing and performance.
Multiple sessions are available. Attendees will receive a certificate upon completion.
Book your place
Delegated healthcare activities
Adopting the guiding principles to support the delegation of healthcare activities to care workers and personal assistants allows people working in social care to demonstrate leadership in their role. They provide an opportunity to learn new skills and take personal responsibility for improving the quality of care.
Find our support for delegated healthcare activities
Care Workforce Pathway
The pathway outlines the knowledge, skills, values and behaviours needed at each stage of the leadership journey. Whether developing team leaders or supporting registered managers, it offers a clear structure for progression, learning and workforce planning.
Learn more about the Care Workforce Pathway
Introductory modules for managers
The eLearning modules offer engaging introductions to key topic areas, including leading in social care, and provide opportunities to reflect, ideas to improve practices, and motivation to learn more.
Explore the eLearning
Webinars
Leading induction for a positive workplace culture
This webinar shows that a quality induction doesn’t need to be complicated, but it does need to be planned. Explore practical ideas to create an effective induction and learn how this helps create a positive workplace culture within your organisation.
Leading effective teams
Hear from Affina Organisation Development (AOD) who explore how they apply research to shape day-to-day practice in leading effective teams in many settings. You’ll gather advice, tips and practical ways to lead effectively and collaboratively with your teams which you can apply back in the workplace.
Registered manager webinars
We have over 30 recorded webinars, ranging from 30-60 minutes and covering a range of topics including wellbeing leadership, effective supervision and practical ways to set and promote a positive workplace culture.
Explore the webinars
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