Introduction

1- Introduction 2- Theories of leadership in health and social care settings: Analyse key theories, evaluate challenges, and explore how different styles influence outcome. 3- Motivation and performance in health and social care: Assess motivational theories, analyse factors influencing performance, and explore the impact. 4- Effective team performance in health and social care: Explain features of effective teams, analyse different models of team leadership, and explore. 5- Introduction 6- Recruitment and selection processes: Understanding the planning, legislation, and approaches involved in hiring in health and social care. 7- Training and career development opportunities: Maximizing performance and analyzing lifelong learning options in the health and social care sector. 8- Performance management: Techniques for monitoring, identifying needs, and promoting continuous professional development in health and social care. 9- Managing a diverse workforce: Analyzing the significance and benefits of cultural diversity and assessing strategies for managing it. 10- Introduction 11- Role of financial information: Importance of accounting, financial software, and key financial ratios in health and social care organizations. 12- Sources of finance: Differentiating between long- and short-term business finance needs, benefits and limitations of various sources, and budgetary. 13- Business decisions and financial information: Rules of double-entry bookkeeping, interpreting organizational budgets, evaluating capital expenditures. 14- Introduction 15- Development of international healthcare policy: Summarize global issues, explore policy formation, assess funding influence, evaluate own country's policy. 16- External and internal environments for health and social care organizations: Analyze environmental significance, use strengths and weaknesses. 17- Strategic and business plans for healthcare organizations based on environmental analysis: Justify best strategic choice, develop business plan, evaluation. 18- Contribution of public and health promotion in the provision of health and social care services: Examine socio-political issues, analyze role of health. 19- Introduction 20- Perspectives of quality in health and social care services: Stakeholder roles, external agencies, impact of poor quality, methods for evaluation. 21- Strategies for achieving quality in health and social care services: Measurement, implementation, barriers to delivery. 22- Principles of change management in health and social care settings: Factors driving change, theories, approaches/tools/techniques, importance of effect. 23- Creating and implementing effective change within a health and social care organization: Tool/technique selection, plan development, progress monitor. 24- Analyzing stakeholder responses to organizational change: Risk assessment, stakeholder analysis, managing resistance, evaluating quality systems/policy. 25- Introduction 26- Understand the relevance of research within health and social care contexts. 27- Justify the contribution of research to health and social care provision. Understand research approaches in health and social care contexts. 28- Critically evaluate a range of research philosophies. 29- Examine different approaches to research. Be able to plan a research proposal relevant to management of health and social care. 30- Justify the elements of a research proposal. 31- Design an appropriate research proposal. 32- Analyse the ethical aspects of research. Be able to analyse and interpret a range of data. 33- Explain types and sources of research data. 34- Analyse data using appropriate approaches. 35- Draw conclusions from data collected. Understand the relationship between research and evidence-based practice. 36- Analyse the relationship between research and evidence-based practice. 37- Evaluate an existing piece of research relevant to health and social care. 38- Analyse the contribution of research and evidence-based practice to decision-making. 39- Introduction 40- Introduction and Background: Provide an overview of the situation, identify the organization, core business, and initial problem/opportunity. 41- Consultancy Process: Describe the process of consultancy development, including literature review, contracting with the client, research methods. 42- Literature Review: Define key concepts and theories, present models/frameworks, and critically analyze and evaluate literature. 43- Contracting with the Client: Identify client wants/needs, define consultant-client relationship, and articulate value exchange principles. 44- Research Methods: Identify and evaluate selected research methods for investigating problem/opportunity and collecting data. 45- Planning and Implementation: Demonstrate skills as a designer and implementer of an effective consulting initiative, provide evidence of ability. 46- Principal Findings and Recommendations: Critically analyze data collected from consultancy process, translate into compact and informative package. 47- Conclusion and Reflection: Provide overall conclusion to consultancy project, reflect on what was learned about consultancy, managing the consulting. 48- Understand how to apply solutions to organisational change.