About the Course

This course focuses on how as leaders we can step up to the opportunity of diversity and inclusion in our daily leadership practice. Walking quickly through the basics, the focus of the course is on what diversity and inclusion means in practice for you in your daily leadership roles and how to become a more inclusive leader.

Foundation Programme Curriculum

This course covers the following Foundation Programme Curriculum areas:

1. Acts professionally

3. Behaves in accordance with ethical and legal requirements

6. Communicates clearly in a variety of settings

8. Demonstrates leadership skills

About the Author

Dr. Justin Varney

Consultant in Public Health

Dr. Justin Varney is an innovative leader and skilled clinician with extensive public outreach experience and a proven ability to build partnerships and facilitate change in the NHS, Voluntary and Community Sector.  Justin trained in General Practice before transfering to Public Health Medicine and qualified as a consultant in 2007. He developed and led the matrix Adult Health and Wellbeing programme at Public Health England for over five years, he has been a technical advisor to the WHO on physical activity contributing to the development of the global action plan, and in 2017 was Thinker in Residence at the University of Sydney. He has been awarded several awards for his work on LGBT health inequalities and has been a diversity advisor on LGBT issues to the Metropolitan Police and Department of Health.

About the Organisation

The Healthcare Leadership Academy

The Healthcare Leadership Academy formed in response to the demand from young clinicians and medical students to learn about leadership. Founded by Dr Johann Malawana and a team of like-minded professionals the Healthcare Leadership Academy launched on the 20th of December 2016. HLA houses an exciting faculty from across the health sector and beyond. Their shared aim is to inspire the next generation of healthcare professionals and develop their understanding of leadership. Too often in healthcare, leadership is confused with management. Through a combination of mentoring, socratic discussion and rigorous training in practical leadership skills, The HLA aims to inspire our scholars to change the world of healthcare, one small step at a time.

Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Diversity and Inclusion in Leadership

    • Introduction

    • Being other

    • Defining diversity and inclusion

    • Equality, Equity & Inclusion

    • Protected characteristics

    • Social Model of Disability

    • Gender Identity & Gender Construct

    • Unconscious bias

    • Legal responsibilities

    • Equality act

    • Recruitment

    • Reasonable adjustment

    • Discrimination, Bullying & Harassment

    • Direct & Indirect discrimination

    • Bringing diversity into your own leadership

    • Supporting diversity in teams

    • Encouraging diversity in organisations

    • Stepping in

    • Managing demand and team needs-

    • Reasonable adjustment

    • Diversity clash

    • Conclusion