Calling all Professional Healthcare Leaders!

Are you a current nursing, midwifery or allied health professional (AHPs) leader or future leader? Would you like to take your career to the next level and be awarded up to £15k to help you?

The Florence Nightingale Foundation is offering scholarships to nurses, midwives and AHPs who want to become leaders with the skills and self-confidence to contribute positively and with some significance to the rapidly changing world of healthcare. These scholarships are also open to Deans and Deputy Deans of Schools Nursing within Universities.

Recipients of the Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholarship undertake a bespoke programme geared to his or her individual needs based on current performance assessment.

Applications are welcomed from those who aspire to a board position or who may already be a director of nursing, a deputy director or assistant director of nursing, heads of midwifery, a nurse and midwifery consultant, a modern matron or a lead allied health care professional. Your organisation is expected to support your application and be of the view that you are capable of being fast-tracked to more senior leadership positions.

The scholarships are made possible thanks to The Burdett Trust’s partnership with the Foundation. This has enabled the Foundation to expand significantly its programme to build leadership capacity in clinical healthcare across the nursing, midwifery and allied healthcare professions.

The Foundation’s incoming Chief Executive, Professor Elizabeth Robb was herself a recipient of the Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholarship in 2006.

Professor Robb says: “The scholarship enabled me to undertake a programme run by Harvard University and Stanford Business School and to visit The Institute of Healthcare Improvement in Boston. Following this research, I adapted the programme in my own Trust to significantly reduce mortality rates and improve patient care”.

I encourage all future nursing leaders to apply for one of these scholarships as it was a pivotal moment in my career”.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 27 September 2010: interviews will be held in London during the last two weeks of November 2010.

Full details are available on the Foundation’s website www.florence-nightingale-foundation.org.uk