Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
Previously known as Lancashire Care, the Trust was established in April 2002 as a mental health and learning disability provider and authorised as a Foundation Trust on December 1, 2007. Employing over 7,000 people in hospitals and district teams, The Trust provides health and wellbeing services for the whole of Lancashire and South Cumbria with a population of around 1.8 million people. In addition to hospitals and mental health provision, The Trust manages community care, district nursing, dental health and health visitors.
The Challenges Faced by Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
With many clinicians in the having been elevated to managerial roles without undergoing any formal management or leadership training, combined with shifts in the NHS landscape, led to increased increased workloads for all staff within tighter timeframes. This highlighted the crucial need for strong leadership to support managers in navigating the changes and adapting to the evolving demands.
The Results
Jo Moffet, L&D Facilitator at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust noted on a personal level, working with Ali changed her perspective on leadership. Since receiving accreditation, when hearing managers discuss their people-related challenges, she is able to immediately identify and readily apply the L&DHP tools to provide support.
“The materials are comprehensive, easy to work with and readily available. Ali Stewart has personally coached, mentored and supported me. She has helped with additional resources that I have needed, been a great sounding board and given me excellent feedback!”
Jo Moffet – L&D Facilitator
Any advice to organisations in a similar position?
“My advice to an organisation would be to make sure you have a leadership strategy that everyone buys into and assess the needs of your people. I would recommend in-house accreditation if your business is big enough and I would say do it properly, not in pockets, to ensure it permeates into the whole organization.”