Cultures and Leadership for Integration

Integration at a scale and a pace that delivers change is the need. 

It is widely appreciated that integration at the scale and pace required has not yet been delivered in health and social care in Scotland. Efforts for enabling change through ‘top down’ strategies, such as creating a ‘National Care Service’, tend to founder. Instead ‘bottom up’ innovation locally that can be scaled up seems to be the most likely pathway to change. This creates a space and a need for many kinds of people in the workforce to contribute. These may be people in formal leadership roles or emerging as leaders in practice, in varying professions, and in diverse kinds of organisations from the larges to the smallest. 

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. Our research has resulted in knowledge about success in this, to enable navigating beyond challenges. This is possible through understanding and engaging with the diverse cultures and the leadership skills required to implement integration. 

 

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. 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.

 

Course presenter

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.