In order to complete this Patchwork assessment, you will need to:

·      explore your own engagement in peer and self-review processes (Learning Outcome 1 & 2).

·      demonstrate the identification and generation of appropriate evidence or patches in order to evidence your engagement with Leadership and Education in your professional / interprofessional environments. (Learning Outcome 2 and 3).

·      produce an individually justified Personal Leadership Plan (PLP) (Learning Outcome 4).

What is a Patchwork assessment?

This is where a variety of pieces of work, activities, reflections you engage with throughout the module (which individually are complete in themselves) are woven or stitched together into something new (a patchwork).

This end piece of work or patchwork is your critical commentary, where you pick pertinent or key patches to reflect upon, linking these life experiences to theory.

How do I develop the patches?

Throughout the module, and whilst working in your action learning sets, you will be set tasks, activities, and exercises to help you reflect on what you are learning in the module, how you are linking this to wider practice, what this means to you now and how this impacts on the development of your leadership knowledge and skills.

Key Principles of Patchwork assessment:

·      It is a bespoke and authentic piece of work where you chose the pivotal learning moments which are significant to you to create a “patch”.

·      It is a continuous process, you are developing skills of synthesising, scrutinising, making sense and reflecting on your learning as you go.

·      These learning moments are real world learning moments, either from personal experience, observing others, learning from other stories or encounters.

·      You receive continuous formative feedback in many styles, this could be from supporting your peers and working in your action learning sets, it could be from tutor discussions, it could be from practice mentors etc

The minimum pass mark for the module is 40%

learning outcomes:

Module Learning Outcomes

1.     Critically evaluate concepts of leadership and make judgements on approaches that solve organisation problems

2.     Critically reflect on your approaches to leadership and decision making in complex and unpredictable contexts, acknowledging uncertainly, ambiguity and the limits of knowledge

3.     Critically evaluate and reflect on your approach to education in your profession and in inter professional arenas

4.     Critically reflect on your emerging leadership approach and ongoing development needs

·      Demonstrate a clear knowledge and understanding of leadership theories and skills required in order to develop effective leadership within the Health and Social Care context.

·      Provide an examination of your own approaches to leadership development, demonstrating your leadership journey throughout your 3^rd year.

·      Demonstrate a clear understanding and appreciation of how complexity and/ or unpredictability impacts on decision making and leadership in the workplace

Intellectual Skills. To complete this element successfully you need to:

·      Critically evaluate and incorporate appropriate literature and evidence to support your patchwork discussion and the production of your Personal Leadership Plan

·      Make informed decisions and judgements about your own leadership behaviours

·      Subject Specific Skills. To complete this element successfully you need to:

·    Consider and critically evaluate potential leadership and /or education challenges and opportunities related to your future professional role.

·    Explain and critically discuss your detailed Personal Leadership Development Plan including your ideas for implementation and evaluation

·    Reflect on and critically discuss organisational culture and challenges which may impact on your future leadership role.

·      Transferrable Skills. To complete this element successfully you need to:

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·      Present your work professionally, and ground your discussions in a wide range of contemporary literature.

·      Demonstrate critical thinking skills which convey your understanding of the leadership at individual and team level

·      Articulate a self-awareness of learning and development in terms of your own leadership journey