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Would you like the opportunity to work with healthcare and public sector staff, to influence decision making and be involved in real change to health and wellbeing services in south Manchester?
 
We are looking for patient and voluntary and community sector representatives from across south Manchester to work alongside health and public sector staff to be involved in a Systems Leadership Programme. Running from January to March 2017, this programme is about how we lead and create change across organisational boundaries and with different sectors when we are not necessarily in charge. At the moment, we all struggle to make resources meet demand and were often trying to find solutions on our own to large and complex problems. Systems Leadership aims to bring organisations together in order to achieve better outcomes.
 
In south Manchester, University Hospital South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Macc (the local voluntary and community sector support organisation for the city of Manchester), Manchester City Council, registered housing providers and VCSE sector colleagues has recently secured a grant of £20,000 from the NHS North West Leadership Academy to develop a Systems Leadership culture among people interested in health, social care and wellbeing in south Manchester.
 
This programme will launch on Tuesday 24 January 2017 and will involve a series of masterclasses delivered by national and local leaders, exchange visits, shadowing opportunities, reflective learning and more, and will run until the end of March 2017.
 
The first masterclass on 24 January 2017 will be held from 10am to 4pm in central Manchester and delivered by Debbie Sorkin, National Director of Systems Leadership at The Leadership Centre, followed by lunch and an afternoon workshop to discuss what we have learnt and how we can work together in South Manchester.
 
The ambition is to foster a new culture where there is a desire by the public sector, housing providers, local authorities, the voluntary and community sector, healthcare providers and patient leaders to work collaboratively and use creative approaches in order to address the shared challenges that are faced across the community in line with the wider transformational programmes in Manchester. The aim is to help create a health care system for the future and redefine what it means to be healthy and live well.
 
This programme is open to anyone interested in health and wellbeing in south Manchester and we aim to get a great mix of people from across different sectors and from members of the community who access services in south Manchester.
 
To register your interest and book a place at the January masterclass, please email Helen Walker at helen@macc.org.uk with your name, job title and organisation (if applicable) and why you would like to be involved. Please note that this programme isnt specifically for managers or people already in a formal leadership position. It for anyone willing to work together and make a change.
 
If you cannot make the first masterclass but would still like to be involved in the programme, please contact Helen. If we receive interest from more than thirty people, we will do our best to make sure that there is equal involvement across sectors and crucially from members of the community that are already accessing services in south Manchester and want to be more involved.
 
For more information on Systems Leadership, please contact Claire Tomkinson, Macc Wellbeing Development Lead on 0161 834 9823 or at claire@macc.org.uk