1. South East Coast
Postgraduate Deanery
for Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Partnership for Leadership in Practice
Partnership for Leadership
in Practice:
Deanery, LEP and HEI
Professor Zoë Playdon
Head of Education
Dr Pam Shaw
Deputy Head of Education

2. South East Coast
Postgraduate Deanery
for Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Partnership for Leadership in Practice
What is unique about the KSS Clinical Fellows Leadership
Academic Programme?
•Unique Deanery/Local Education Provider/ HEI Partnership
•MSc Management (Leadership for Clinicians) – an academic
leadership and management route
Plus
• A Local Education Provider [LEP] work based organisational
environment supports and enhances academic learning by work
based projects leading to a final project
• Clinical Fellows (CFs) complete Master’s assignments and a
portfolio of evidence – both mapped to leadership competencies
• Thus, CFs receive dual accreditation

3. South East Coast
Postgraduate Deanery
for Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Partnership for Leadership in Practice
What is unique about the KSS Clinical Fellows Leadership
Academic Programme?
•CFs may gain awards of MSc AND Certificate of Completion for
Leadership Fellows
•CFs are out of programme – will broadly spend 3 days a week in
LEP undertaking work based projects
•CFs will spend approx. 2 days a week engaged in the taught
Master’s element of the course
• KSS Standards for Clinical Leadership map to and extend NHS
and BAMM standards AND reflect content of MSc
•Overall shared rationale is to improve patient experience, patient
safety and patient outcome

4. South East Coast
Postgraduate Deanery
for Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Partnership for Leadership in Practice
LEP HEI
KSS
&
CFs
Partnership model creates an overlap between LEP and
HEI with KSS and CFs situated in its Contact Zone
Therefore: Turbulent, Liminal, characterised by Uncertainty
Thus: KSS role to establish boundaries and expectations;
manage learner anxiety; manage partners’ anxiety

5. South East Coast
Postgraduate Deanery
for Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Partnership for Leadership in Practice
Seek a partnership, not a hierarchy
Danger of polarisation between LEP and HEI
LEP HEI
Defines self
as authentic
locus of
practice and
HEI as
academically
elitist
KSS
Defines self
as expert locus
of theory and
LEP as
intellectually
primitive
Integrative
brokering
function to
remove
polarity
between
contexts

6. South East Coast
Postgraduate Deanery
for Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Partnership for Leadership in Practice
LEP HEI
Leadership
Facilitator and
Workbase
Champions
Educational
Supervisor
and Action
Learning Sets
KSS
Course
Team
Model of Distributed Knowledge mediated by the KSS
Course Team which privileges neither

7. South East Coast
Postgraduate Deanery
for Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Partnership for Leadership in Practice
Dual accreditation as organisational and systemic focus
LEP HEI
Competencies MSc
KSS
Standards for
Leadership
Individuals as
Leaders
Leading Groups
Leading
Organisations
Leading Partnerships
and Strategic
Alliances

8. South East Coast
Postgraduate Deanery
for Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Partnership for Leadership in Practice
Professional Conversation to scaffold Partners’ entry into
each other’s worlds
LEP HEI
Contracts of
Employment
Liability for
Clinical and
Educational
Governance
Academic
Board
Ethics of
academic
production
KSS
Principled
Approach to
Practice
Course Team
Handbook

9. South East Coast
Postgraduate Deanery
for Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Partnership for Leadership in Practice
Processes to scaffold CLFs’ safe entry to the two worlds and
successful programme exit
LEP HEI
Experiential
Learning
Leadership
Facilitator
Development
into theory
Academic
Programme
Educational
Supervisor
Development
into practice
KSS
Standards for
Leadership
Course Team
Handbook
Portfolio
Viva

10. South East Coast
Postgraduate Deanery
for Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Partnership for Leadership in Practice
Brokerage function requires both legitimacy and authority to
create a ‘third space’ which contains, supports and enables
innovation
LEP HEI
Legitimacy in
Clinical
environment
Legitimacy in
Academia
KSS
Education
Department
Synthesis &
Holding
Dissonance