Cultures and Leadership for Integration (funding available)

Leaders, professionals and operational teams in health and social care aim to deliver greater integration to flourish with the care quality and workforce effectiveness that can bring. The Scottish Government and COSLA have set out a consolidated  “Health & Social Care Service Renewal Framework 2025-2035” for enabling this. Integration at scale and pace will be required to deliver this.

This means both enabling change through ‘top down’ strategies, and ‘bottom up’ innovation locally that can be scaled up. These create opportunities for all to be leaders and for many teams in the workforce to contribute. Support and development for this is needed by formal leadership roles in big institutions and varying professions to diverse kinds of teams and people in smaller organisations. 

Our research has resulted in knowledge about success in this support and development, to enable service renewal on the scale and pace necessary. This is possible through understanding and engaging with the diverse cultures and the leadership skills required to implement integration. This programme converts that research into practical knowledge and learning.

 

Audience

This course is well suited to anyone working in/as:

• Leaders and managers in community health, social work and social care contexts (care homes and home care services)
• Professionals delivering services in teams in or across community health, social work and social care
• Policy makers and campaigners/organisations concerned with health and social care integration 

 

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course but it is recommended that individuals demonstrate an interest in community health, social work or social care.

 

Course content

Key topics include:

• Cultures and Leadership for Integration (CLI) and enabling success
• The Compass Model: Cultures, Belonging, Headspace, Mindsets, Outcomes, Leadership, Learning & Development, X factors
• How individuals, teams and organisations can use the Compass model to navigate to success 

 

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, course participants will be able to:

• Identify the CLI challenges they face in their roles and organisations
• Develop ways of engaging with these challenges to navigate beyond them and facilitate change
• Provide support for enabling integration success locally and contribute to system wide change in Scotland

 

Delivery

This course is facilitated on a self-paced online basis via our virtual learning environment, supported through live online sessions (timetable will be provided ahead of course start date). It involves a minimum of 10 hours learning, which can be undertaken at the discretion of course participants.  Access to the course will be provided for a maximum of 6 weeks.

 

Assessment

Further information will be made available at the start of the course.

Upon successful completion, participants will be provided with a Certificate of Completion.

 

Fee

The course fee is £150. 

For organisations seeking to support groups of 10 participants or more, a bespoke delivery at a reduced rate may be possible. Please contact cpd@uws.ac.uk to enquire.

 

*Funding

Please note that a limited number of fully funded places are currently available, via the support of the Scottish Government.

When applying, note in the Additional Information section if you wish to be considered for a fully funded place. 

 

Course leader

Stephen Gibb is Professor of Organisation and Human Resource Development (O&HRD) in the School of Business & Creative Industries. He has been teaching in organisation culture and change for over 30 years. Most recently Stephen was lead author of a report in May 2024 to the Scottish Government on ‘Culture and Leadership for Integration (CLI) in Health & Social Care’, and led on the organisation of a convention on CLI funded by the Scottish Government in November 2025, which engaged people from across community health, social work and social care, policy and professions, in sharing knowledge about what enables success.