Leadership and Management Fellow Scheme
2024/25 Programme
The Royal College of Psychiatrists Leadership and Management Fellow Scheme aims to develop and support a new cohort of emerging medical leaders within psychiatry.
2024/25 Scheme Programme
This is the programme outline for the 2024/25 Leadership and Management Fellow Scheme.
Most modules will be delivered via Zoom from 9.15am-4.30pm. The Welcome event in September 2024 took place in-person from 9.15am-3.00pm and the Politics, Power and Persuasion module in January 2025 is scheduled from 9.15am-4.30pm. The Celebrating Success event in June 2025 will run from 10am-3.00pm.
Please note these three in-person modules will take place at 21 Prescot St, London (participants in the scheme should reclaim expenses from their local organisation). Modules will not be recorded or available to watch on demand. Please note that there may be unavoidable instances where module dates and/or timings may need to be changed and if so Fellows will be informed at the earliest opportunity.
| Module title | Date | Module leads | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The RCPsych Leadership and Management Fellow Scheme | Wednesday 11 September 2024 In-person session, 21 Prescot Street |
Alex Till, David Bishop, Marcin Ostrowski, Ross Runciman, Suhana Ahmed |
| 2 | Authentic leadership: learning your own leadership style | Thursday 19 September 2024 Virtual session |
Derek Tracy, Medical Director of West London NHS Trust |
| 3 | My project and me |
Wednesday 9 October 2024 |
Deepa Bagepalli Krishnan, Specialty Registrar in General Adult Psychiatry - Health Education England (East Midlands) & RCPsych LMFS Alumni |
| 4 |
Inclusive Leadership: leading effective teams |
Friday 18 October 2024 Virtual session |
Ananta Dave, Medical Director - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Gareth Thomas, Chief Medical Officer, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT, and Ananta Dave’s to Chief Medical Officer, Black Country Integrated Care Board |
| 5 |
Running a Mental Health Organisation |
Tuesday 3 December 2024 Virtual session |
Nick Broughton, Chief Executive - Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Karl Marlowe, Chief Medical Officer-Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Catherine Eden, Managing Director, Eden & Partners |
| 6 | Fellows’ Away Day: Politics, Power and Persuasion | Friday 17 January 2025 In-person session, 21 Prescot Street |
Catherine Eden,Managing Director, Eden & Partners |
| 7 | Clinical informatics & digital leadership | Tuesday 11 February 2025 Virtual session |
Ayesha Rahim, Deputy Medical Director & Chief Clinical Information Officer - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust Asif Bachlani, Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Lead for Woking Autism/ASC Pathway, Priory Hospital, Woking |
| 8 | Leading together - meaningful co-production and wellbeing | Tuesday 11 March 2025 Virtual session |
Subha Thiyagesh, Medical Director - South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
| 9 | Connection across the system | Tuesday 29 April 2025 Virtual session |
Billy Boland, Medical Director - South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust Uju Ugochukwu, Medical Director for Quality at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust |
| 10 | A celebration: from then, to now, to next |
Friday 6 June 2025 In-person session |
Alex Till, David Bishop, Marcin Ostrowski, Ross Runciman, Suhana Ahmed |
Additionally, there will be three mentor information sessions via Zoom:
- 13 September 2024, 12-1pm
- 26 November 2024, 12-1pm
- 5 February 2025, 12-1pm