6012NHS Leadership and Management for Healthcare Professionals Assignment Brief

6012NHS Leadership and Management for Healthcare Professionals

Assignment Brief

This document is intended for Coventry University Group students and apprentices for their own use in completing their assessed work for this module. It must not be passed to third parties or posted on any website. If you require this document in an alternative format, please contact your Module Leader.

Content

Assignment Information Assignment Task Submission Instructions:

Development of Skills and Attributes LiMB Values

Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours (KSB’s)

Marking and Feedback

Assessed Module Learning Outcomes Assignment Support and Academic Integrity Administration of Assessment

Assessment Marking Criteria

The work you submit for this assignment must be your own independent work, or in the case of a group assignment your own groups’ work. More information is available in the ‘Assignment Task’ section of this assignment brief.

Assignment Information

Module Name: Leadership and Management for Healthcare Professionals

Module Code: 6012NHS

Assignment Title: Personal Leadership and Management Portfolio (1200 words).

Assignment Due: 1st December 2025 at 18:00

If you do not pass this assessment you may have an opportunity to resit it. If you do need to resit, you will be asked to use the feedback provided to revise your original submission, so that it meets the pass requirements for the module. You must clearly indicate the changes you have made in the new submission. Please check your SOLAR results and the submission links on your Aula module page to see when the resit is due.

Assignment Credit: 10 credits

Word Count (or equivalent): 1200 words, +/- 10%.

Each section of the portfolio has a suggested word count, to help ensure you meet the learning outcomes, as there is a weighted marking rubric for this element of assessment. Therefore, the SIM MDT section is worth 40% of the overall mark for CW2 and thus a larger proportion of words will be required to allow you to meet the learning outcomes:

1. Simulated Multidisciplinary Team Meeting (MDT) critical Reflection (500 words)
2. Analyse the importance of delegation (250 words)
3. Analyse the importance of managing conflict within a team (250 words)
4. Three personal Leadership and Management Objectives (200 words)

We suggest that you use the + or – 10% of the word count for each section as you require.

Assignment Type: Written

Percentage Grade (Applied Core Assessment). You will be provided with an overall grade between 0% and 100%. To pass the assignment you must achieve a grade of 40% or above.

Assignment Task

Coursework 2 – Personal Leadership Portfolio

(This will be 50% of the final module mark.) Meeting learning outcome numbers 1, 3 and 4

1. Analyse the importance of leadership and management behaviours and skills for healthcare professional working within multi-disciplinary teams.
2. Within a simulated environment, demonstrate the leadership and management behaviours and skills required of registered professional
3. Critically reflect on leadership and management issues as experienced within the clinical placement setting and within your personal leadership development as a health professions student.

This CW2 asks you to complete a Leadership Portfolio of 1200 words within the Leadership Portfolio Template as shown on Pages 16 to 18.

This leadership portfolio is separated into 4 elements:

• Simulated Multidisciplinary Team Meeting (MDT) critical Reflection (500 words)
• Analyse the importance of delegation (250 words)
• Analyse the importance of managing conflict within a team (250 words)
• Three personal Leadership and Management Objectives (200 words).

This assessment seeks insightful, perceptive and personal understanding through reflection, to how you manage leadership and management, in relation to the areas outlined above. The highest marks will be awarded to those students who are able to concisely write about each area whilst being highly self-aware of both your strengths and weaknesses in relation to leadership behaviours and skills which are explored throughout the module teaching.

You are greatly encouraged to complete the 16 Personalities Test as suggested in Week 1, utilise learning from the NHS Leadership Academy – Leadership Model to make use of identified strengths and weaknesses in Week 2, and become very familiar with your professional standards which you must uphold on qualification. These will form the basis for this portfolio and allow you to become more self- aware and thus create personal development objectives as a result which link to your professional standards. This can then be taken to clinical practice on qualification and utilised as part of your preceptorship programme. To help support your transition to qualified practitioner and get in the habit of collecting evidence for your learning, we would like you to include 3 pieces of evidence to support your learning or reflection. This will be included as Appendices (A, B and C) to the Leadership Portfolio and uploaded as part of the same document to Turnitin.

Whilst personal reflection is needed for this assessment, we do not want you to utilise a reflective tool within the Leadership Portfolio itself as you will not have enough words. We want you to include what you have learned, as a result of reflection, on perhaps the course content, clinical placement, NHS Leadership Academy etc., to draw conclusions and explore how this may impact situations in qualification. How can you plan for this? What may you need to change or be aware of?

You may write in the first person for this portfolio as it is your personal insights and discoveries that we are keen to hear. References should be used to support your critical personal reflection, but we would like quality references rather than quantity. This Leadership Portfolio is subject to the 10% more or less than the word count (1200 words), so please be mindful of this to avoid losing marks by going beyond the 10% allowance.

See on the next page, the template you will use for your Leadership Portfolio and within it, greater detail of what is needed in each section. We would also strongly suggest looking at this with the CW2 Assessment rubric, which can be seen below, but also more clearly on Aula, so you can see what will gain you most marks.

Artificial Intelligence:

This assessment is in the Amber category which means that it may be used to assist you to revise the theoretical aspects of this assessment to assist in your knowledge of them so you can then independently apply these to the assessment task.

Submission Instructions:

• Electronic Submission via Turnitin submission link on module Aula page Please ensure the following when completing your leadership portfolio:
• Use the template leadership portfolio on Aula to complete the CW2.
• Include an overall word count on the first page (this should not include your Appendices, or words already included as part of the template document, or the professional standards column links).
• Double line space your work within the template.
• Refer to members of the SIM MDT by roles please, rather than name.

Development of Skills and Attributes

The module and assessment will develop specific Graduate Attributes, listed below:

• communicate effectively;
• adapt approach;

It does this by asking students to complete a personality test, conflict handling exercise, and leadership academy self-assessment, to allow them to critique themselves and consider, what strategies they may need to develop to handle situations in the future but also what attributes they can enhance and develop to aid their professional journey.

LiMB Values

British values threaded throughout the module in line with the value of the rule of law which is encompassed within legislation of:

• Inclusion of LD topics, Child Health, Mental Health, and social dimensions of health throughout the module
• NMC Code – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

This module assessment encourages students to be self-reflective and self-analytic to enable them to consider how their approaches to teamwork or conflict may impact others. The student is also encouraged to consider strategies for overcoming any difficulties they may encounter during work and consider how they build on their strengths. It is hoped this will enhance mutual respect and tolerance of others whilst they uphold the NMC Code.

Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours (KSB’s)

This assignment is designed to provide you with an opportunity to develop the following Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours from an Apprenticeship Standard Registered Nurse Degree:

https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/registered-nurse-degree-nmc- 2018-v1-1

Marking and Feedback

How will my assignment be marked?

Your assignment will be marked by the module team.

How will I receive my grades and feedback?

Provisional marks will be released once internally moderated

Written feedback will be provided by the module team alongside grades release

Feedback and grades can be accessed via your module Aula page and the Turnitin submission link Your provisional marks and feedback should be available within 10 working days

What will I be marked against?

Details of the marking criteria for this task can be found at the bottom of this assignment brief.

Resit Assessment Details:

CW2: Personal Leadership and Management Portfolio (1200 words).

Deferral Assessment Details:

CW2: Personal Leadership and Management Portfolio (1200 words).

Assessed Module Learning Outcomes

The Learning Outcomes for this module align to the marking criteria which can be found at the end of this brief. Ensure you understand the marking criteria to ensure successful achievement of the assessment task. The following module learning outcomes are assessed in this task:

Meeting learning outcome numbers 1, 3 and 4:

1. Analyse the importance of leadership and management behaviours and skills for healthcare professional working within multi-disciplinary teams.

3. Within a simulated environment, demonstrate the leadership and management behaviours and skills required of registered professional

4. Critically reflect on leadership and management issues as experienced within the clinical placement setting and within your personal leadership development as a health professions student.

Learning outcome 3: Within a simulated environment, (demonstrate the leadership and management behaviours and skills required of registered professional), is only assessed within this CW2 assessment, in the 500 words critical reflection of the SIM MDT. Therefore, you must pass this element of the portfolio to meet learning outcome 3 for the module.

Assignment Support and Academic Integrity

If you have any questions about this assignment please see the Student Guidance on Coursework for more information.

Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar:

You are expected to use effective, accurate, and appropriate language within this assessment task.

Academic Integrity:

The work you submit must be your own, or in the case of groupwork, that of your group. All sources of information need to be acknowledged and attributed; therefore, you must provide references for all sources of information and acknowledge any tools used in the production of your work, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). We use detection software and make routine checks for evidence of academic misconduct.

Definitions of academic misconduct, including plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and collusion can be found on the Student Portal. All cases of suspected academic misconduct are referred for investigation, the outcomes of which can have profound consequences to your studies. For more information on academic integrity please visit the Academic and Research Integrity section of the Student Portal.

Support for Students with Disabilities or Additional Needs:

If you have a disability, long-term health condition, specific learning difference, mental health diagnosis or symptoms and have discussed your support needs with health and wellbeing you may be able to access support that will help with your studies.

If you feel you may benefit from additional support, but have not disclosed a disability to the University, or have disclosed but are yet to discuss your support needs it is important to let us know so we can provide the right support for your circumstances. Visit the Student Portal to find out moree.

Unable to Submit on Time?

The University wants you to do your best. However, we know that sometimes events happen which mean that you cannot submit your assessment by the deadline or sit a scheduled exam. If you think this might be the case, guidance on understanding what counts as an extenuating circumstance, and how to apply is available on the Student Portal.

Administration of Assessment

Module Leader Name:

Module Leader Email:

Assignment Category: Written Attempt Type: Standard and Resit Component Code: CW2

All About 6012NHS: Leadership and Management for Healthcare Professionals

6012NHS is assessed on whether you can lead a real service issue to a measurable improvement—not just describe theory. A strong submission does four things:

1. Pins down one concrete NHS problem in your area of practice (e.g., delayed discharges on a medical ward; poor escalation for deteriorating patients in outpatients; DNAs in community therapy).
2. Chooses an appropriate leadership approach for this problem (not a textbook parade), showing how you adapted style and behaviours in context.
3. Manages the change with basic project discipline (aims, measures, stakeholders, risks, resources), linked to NHS policy and clinical governance.
4. Evaluates impact and reflects honestly on what changed, what didn’t, and what you’ll do differently next time.

How to structure your submission (and what markers look for)

1) Context and problem definition (200–250 words)

• Service setting: trust/PCN/team, patient group, flow points affected.
• Single sentence aim: “Reduce unplanned overnight stays from ambulatory care by 20% in 12 weeks.”
• Baseline: last 4–8 weeks of local data (counts, rates, run chart).
• Why it matters: link to CQC Well-led/Safe, patient experience, staff wellbeing, and operational targets.

Avoid: vague “winter pressures” or national stats with no local numbers.

2) Leadership choice and behaviours (300–350 words)

• Name the one or two leadership approaches you actually used and why they fit this context:
  • Transformational to reset purpose and culture in a demoralised team.
  • Transactional for time-critical safety tasks and standard work.
  • Distributed/collective to empower AHPs/nurses to own daily flow.
• Anchor to the NHS Healthcare Leadership Model behaviours you enacted (e.g., Inspiring shared purpose, Evaluating information, Engaging the team).
• Show adaptation over time: e.g., began with directive huddles to stabilise safety, then shifted to coaching once variation reduced.
• Evidence choices with micro-examples: the words you used in a huddle, how you handled resistance in a corridor conversation, what you delegated and