What is Practice Leadership?
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What is Practice Leadership?
Practice Leadership is an approach to leadership that focuses on how support is delivered in everyday practice. It aims to ensure that support is person centred, rights based, and consistent across services for people who need care and support.
Rather than focusing only on processes or performance targets, practice leadership focuses on the quality of day-to-day interactions. It recognises the actions of frontline staff directly affect people’s wellbeing, independence, inclusion, and dignity. Practice leaders therefore play an active role in guiding, coaching, and supporting staff to translate values into practical support.
This approach is reflected in the Care Workforce Pathway, which highlights the need for skilled leadership to develop confident, capable teams and improve outcomes for people using services.
Bild’s Practice Leadership model
Bild’s Model of Practice Leadership focuses on three connected areas:
- Driving excellence in support – keeping quality of life central and using feedback and information to improve practice
- Leading by example – being present in services, observing support, and providing coaching and feedback
- Building strong teams – setting clear expectations, encouraging reflection, and promoting consistent, respectful practice
Practice leadership helps create the conditions where good support is more likely to happen, more consistently.
Bild Diploma in Practice Leadership
A choice of 5 specialist pathways, all providing a firm foundation in Practice Leadership.
Develop Practice Leadership in your organisation
Bild offers a number of programmes that support the development of Practice Leadership.