Launchpad Programme

Course Description

This four day course is designed for colleagues who would like to develop their skills for the future. The programme consists of taught sessions alongside completion of an ongoing reflective diary, helping you to recognise your strengths and development needs in your area of work.

If you would like to attend please ensure you meet the following criteria:

  • Full support of line manager
  • Fully compliant with mandatory training
  • Able to attend 4 taught sessions, and complete an ongoing reflective diary within work for the programme duration

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course you will have the opportunity to:

  • Explore communication methods at LUHFT and for you
  • Identify you own values and what this means for you in your role
  • Explore your own role and and team purpose
  • Understand your own strengths, and development areas in terms of resilience
  • Learn the personal skills required to take on effective peer support responsibilities
  • Undertake a mini 360 feedback
  • Explore peer support and your role within this. 
  • Create and deliver an informal reflective presentation in small supportive groups

Intended Audience

This course is for colleagues who are not in a management role but who would like to further develop their skills

If you are unsure whether the programme is relevant for you, the following skills scan along with a development conversation with your manager will help:

Launchpad Skills Scan

Launchpad Quotes

How to book 

Learning and Development has now gone fully self-service with ESR. This means rather than using the L&D portal on your desktop to book onto our courses, you will book your place directly through ESR.

Guidance can be found on your homepage of ESR (https://my.esr.nhs.uk/) .... look for the following section:

L&D offer
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