APPLICATIONS OPEN WEDNESDAY 19TH JUNE 2024!
Programme Facilitator
Richard H Shorney, Real Healthcare Solutions Ltd.
Course dates:
Friday 15th November 2024
Launch event (full day in-person event)
10.30 – 16.30
Venue: Freeths LLP, Floor 3, The Colmore Building, 20 Colmore Circus Queensway, Birmingham B4 6AT
Three evening seminars – 18H30 – 20H30 – All virtual seminars
Seminar 1 – 23rd January 2025
Seminar 2 – 6th March 2025
Seminar 3 – 3rd April 2025
Friday 16th May 2025
Follow-up event (full day in-person event)
10H30 – 16H30
Venue: TBC
Agenda Topics
• AHP Leadership – where you fit in
• Leadership theories
• Working with colleagues – understanding personality traits
• Adaptability and resilience
• SpotlightPROFILE – Individual assessment profiles to support understanding of self
• Business case writing in healthcare – improving services
• Making an impact – leadership that works
The ideal applicant:
• A BAPO member who aspires to move from a more clinical role into team leader responsibility and/or is already within a position of team leader
• Excited to build your profile and extend your network, to influence key senior stakeholders and drive change
• A thirst for learning and personal development – aspiring to strengthening your capabilities to drive long-term career success
• The desire, determination and resilience to lead a team
• Passionate about being a Prosthetist/Orthotist with a drive to support the profession and fellow peers and the willingness to further engage with BAPO
• Available to attend all set programme dates in Birmingham in person and the virtual evening seminars
• The support of a line manager and/or organisational permission to apply
The cost for running the programme is covered by BAPO.
It is BAPO’s aim for the programme to fulfil the delegates’ leadership expectations from both an operational and strategic perspective.
In addition, the learner will develop their own leadership toolkit throughout the BAPO Leadership Programme and be able to apply the newly acquired skills in practice.
How to Apply:
Applications open on Wednesday 19th June 2024!
Spaces are limited, so act now. This programme is open to all BAPO members (apart from students). Students are excluded as the programme supports projects which will be located in the workplace. BAPO would especially welcome applications from prosthetists and also from members working in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
To apply please complete a 250-word expression of interest to attend this course, entitled:
“How I believe this BAPO leadership programme will assist my own professional development”
In addition to this expression of interest form and for your application to be considered, please email your CV to enquiries@bapowp.axia.support and include the subject heading (BAPO Leadership Programme Application).
BAPO welcomes applications to reflect the diversity of our profession, including but not limited to Age, Disability, Ethnicity and Race, LGBTQ+ community, Religion and Beliefs, and Veteran’s status.
The closing date for applications is Friday 19 July 2024
Successful candidates will be informed via email W/C Monday 5th August 2024
Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Certification of attendance will be provided to support your ongoing HCPC requirements under CPD.
Recent feedback about the programme
“I have really enjoyed this program and will certainly use the teachings and resources to improve my role in the P&O world.”
“I took away some real positives from the course and I have already started implementing them into my day-to-day life.”
“Fantastic opportunity, well organised, and offered some amazing insights into myself and how I interact with both myself and others”.