Are you a Physiotherapist who aspires to further your career, looking to develop into a future team lead?

This course is designed for early career, Band 5 and 6 Physiotherapists looking to develop within the leadership pillar of practice and will:

Build confidence through learning how to understand and manage yourself.
Provide assurance by transferring these skills into managing and enhancing communication with others.
Grow your resilience to handle work place situations, whether you are working alone or with others.
Prepare you for future team lead roles

The course fulfils the requirements of the HCPC Leadership Standard of Proficiency (8.6-8.9) effective September 2023, namely:

8.6: Understand the qualities, behaviours and benefits of leadership.
8.7: Recognise that leadership is a skill all professionals can demonstrate.
8.8: Identify their own leadership qualities, behaviours and approaches, taking into account the importance of quality, diversity and inclusion.
8.9: Demonstrate leadership behaviours appropriate to their practice.

Course Content and Learning Outcomes

This training will provide you with an understanding of fundamental principles of leadership and management with a particular focus on work-based scenarios. Following the course, you will understand and be able to apply into your work practice:

The concepts of self awareness: Helping you understand how you think, manage emotions and become aware of personal narratives.
The concepts of self monitoring: Teaching you how to monitor yourself and apply appropriate interventions to your behaviours.
Interpersonal skills: Enhancing your awareness of how you engage and interact with those around you.
Engage more effectively with patients: Helping you to manage your ‘internal world’ to enable you to listen more deeply to understand your patient’s needs.
Play to team strengths: Helping you to leverage your skills and expertise and seek support to manage blind spots.
Work collaboratively: Helping you to understand team dynamics and therefore foster an environment where individuals and teams can debate, discuss, ‘disagree well’, share ideas, make decisions and solve problems.

The course is delivered online over two, live interactive half-days (9am - 1pm) featuring polling, discussion groups and breakout areas. In addition, access to our e-learning portal will provide supplementary material, accessible between the two half day sessions. Self-directed learning and a reflective piece of work will be completed in your own time and be submitted for assessment.

The course will be conducted online using Zoom Meetings. In addition, supplementary course content will be provided on our e-learning portal.
This course features regular use of live Polling, Chat and Discussion sessions together with self directed learning.

Course access will require a PC/Mac or tablet (iPad or Android). Integral webcam and microphone is preferable although mobile dial in audio is supported (please contact us with any queries)

Course Dates:

15 May 2026 Part 1

29 May 2026 Part 2

Registration 9:00am. Course Times 9.15am - 13.00pm both days.

£ 195 + VAT

The Leader Within Training Programme For Physiotherapists