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Leadership Scholarships

Calling all Professional Healthcare Leaders!

Are you a current nursing, midwifery or allied health professional (AHP) leader or future leader? Would you like to take your career to the next level and be awarded up to £15k to help you do so?

The Florence Nightingale Foundation is offering scholarships to nurses, midwives and AHPs who want to become leaders with the skills and self-confidence to contribute positively and with some significance to the rapidly changing world of healthcare. These scholarships are also open to Deans and Deputy Deans of Schools of Nursing within Universities.

Recipients of the Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholarship undertake a bespoke programme geared to his or her individual needs based on current performance assessment. The scholarships comprise the following three main areas:

• Personal leadership;
• Career development; and
• a project which improves patient/client care

Applications are welcomed from those who aspire to a board position or who may already be a director of nursing, a deputy director, head of midwifery, a nurse or midwife consultant, a modern matron or a lead allied health care professional. Your organisation is expected to support your application and be of the view that you are capable of being fast-tracked to more senior leadership positions.

The Scholarships are made possible thanks to close partnerships with the Foundation:

The Burdett Trust for Nursing has enabled the Foundation to significantly expand its programme to build leadership capacity in clinical healthcare across the nursing, midwifery and allied healthcare professions.

London Network for Nurses and Midwives supports The Professor Dame Christine Beasley Leadership Scholarships for nurses and midwives who are working within London in an organisation providing patient care funded by the NHS.

Applications for 2012-13 Scholarships will open on 2nd April 2012 and close on 21st September 2012