A Teesside hospital trust has been honoured with a prestigious award for its training programme.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust achieved a Princess Royal Training Award for driving cultural transformation through inclusive, embedded leadership at all levels.
The Princess Royal Training Awards recently celebrated its 10th year and recognises organisations that show exceptional commitment to learning and development, delivering measurable benefits for both individuals and businesses.
They launched the bespoke training programme trust-wide in 2020 to help drive change and improve staff confidence. It consists of 3 full standalone days of training, which can be completed in any order throughout the year, making it easy for staff to fit training around their shift patterns.
The course is designed to provide staff with a comprehensive understanding in leadership including self as leader, leading teams and leading across systems.
Accepting the honour on behalf of South Tees Hospitals were leadership development practitioner, Alison Wilson, senior leadership and organisational development consultant, Kate Harrison and Strategy project manager, Praj Basu.
Alison said: “At South Tees we hold the philosophy of a leader in every seat and we built the programme to ensure maximum accessibility and inclusion for all staff.
“The assessors noted our flexible and unique approach to ensuring as many staff as possible, regardless of whether they were in a formal leadership role, could quickly access quality training in leadership.
Since the launch, we have received consistently positive feedback from staff who have commended the courses for being ‘engaging, lively and fun’ and for inspiring innovation and confidence within individuals and wider teams and departments.
“Staff have been motivated and keen to put their learning into practice and many have recommended the course to their colleagues, which helps us to embed a positive culture.
“It was such an honour to collect the award on behalf of South Tees Hospitals and is an experience I will never forget!”