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140 Credits
Leadership & Team Working in the NHS
✓Curriculum Reviewed & CPD-Accredited by Expert Faculty
⏱Self-paced learning
|📚4 modules · 41 lectures
|⏱️1-2 hours
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Course Overview
This is the fifth module in the 9-part IMG preparation and professional development series, designed to help International Medical Graduates build the leadership, communication, and collaborative skills needed to thrive within NHS healthcare teams.
This module explores how leadership and teamworking function within the NHS, with a particular focus on multidisciplinary collaboration, professional relationships, inclusive leadership, and adapting to UK workplace culture. It examines how effective communication, emotional intelligence, and psychological safety influence patient care, staff wellbeing, and team performance.
The module also explores common workplace dynamics faced by IMGs, including navigating rotational teams, managing hierarchy differences, handling conflict constructively, understanding unconscious bias, and contributing confidently within multidisciplinary teams. Learners will develop practical strategies to communicate effectively, build trust quickly, lead safely regardless of seniority, and work more confidently within NHS clinical environments
This module explores how leadership and teamworking function within the NHS, with a particular focus on multidisciplinary collaboration, professional relationships, inclusive leadership, and adapting to UK workplace culture. It examines how effective communication, emotional intelligence, and psychological safety influence patient care, staff wellbeing, and team performance.
The module also explores common workplace dynamics faced by IMGs, including navigating rotational teams, managing hierarchy differences, handling conflict constructively, understanding unconscious bias, and contributing confidently within multidisciplinary teams. Learners will develop practical strategies to communicate effectively, build trust quickly, lead safely regardless of seniority, and work more confidently within NHS clinical environments
What You'll Learn
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Explain the importance of professionalism, communication, and professional relationships within NHS teams.
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Recognise how personality, culture, and team dynamics influence collaboration and workplace interactions in healthcare settings.
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Apply practical strategies to integrate effectively into rotational NHS teams and multidisciplinary environments.
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Identify the characteristics of high-functioning and dysfunctional healthcare teams, including barriers to effective collaboration and psychological safety.
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Demonstrate an understanding of inclusive leadership principles, unconscious bias, and equitable team management within the NHS.
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Develop leadership and teamworking approaches that support patient safety, staff wellbeing, collaboration, and effective multidisciplinary care.
Who Is This Course For?
Who this module is for;
International Medical Graduates preparing to work in the NHS
Resident doctors and junior doctors adapting to UK healthcare culture
Clinical fellows, trust grade doctors, and SAS doctors
IMGs preparing for NHS interviews, training programmes, or leadership roles
Doctors seeking to improve communication and multidisciplinary teamwork skills
Healthcare professionals wanting to strengthen leadership, collaboration, and inclusive practice within clinical teams
International Medical Graduates preparing to work in the NHS
Resident doctors and junior doctors adapting to UK healthcare culture
Clinical fellows, trust grade doctors, and SAS doctors
IMGs preparing for NHS interviews, training programmes, or leadership roles
Doctors seeking to improve communication and multidisciplinary teamwork skills
Healthcare professionals wanting to strengthen leadership, collaboration, and inclusive practice within clinical teams
4 modules | 41 lectures