ICS Leadership Behaviours

The purpose of these behaviours is to provide us all with a shared understanding and commitment around how we want to work and collaborate together across our ICS, to enable everyone to contribute, for all voices to be heard, and so we can all make a difference in our roles. Ultimately to support achievement of our shared vision for “Good Health and Wellbeing for Everyone” across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

These behaviours have been co-designed with colleagues from across organisations, sectors, professions and backgrounds to reflect what people have said is important to them when working in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Each behaviour has a high-level description of what it means and then explores what each of our behaviours might look like in practice including:

• Examples of specific behaviours we will demonstrate

• Examples of behaviours we will not demonstrate

Check out some further detail for each behaviour on the links below

• Open
  
  

• Inclusive
  
  

• Courageous
  
  

• Compassionate
  
  

• Innovative

There are lots of ways we can use the ICS Leadership Behaviours in our work:

Self-assessment:

Why not start by taking 2 or 3 minutes to simply rate yourself on how well you think you demonstrate each of these behaviours?  Where could you improve? Use the ICS Leadership Behaviours Quick Self- Assessment to help you

Or if you’d like to explore your leadership behaviours in more detail, why not have a go with the full self-assessment.

Communication:

Share these behaviours with colleagues in your teams and organisations - send out the booklet, put up a poster, add them to your social media or email signature, or even have a quick chat with a colleague about the behaviours and how you might use them over a coffee.

Recruitment and Selection:

Consider using these behaviours when recruiting colleagues into roles with a system focus – embedding them into person specifications and using them to inform interview questions.

Meetings:

Share and promote these behaviours within system and team meetings - include and discuss them on agendas, explore together how you want to use them, or invite members to self-assess themselves and the group/team on how well you are collectively demonstrating these – to encourage discussions on what you could all do even better. Use the quick or full team self-assessments to help you

Learning and Development:

Embed these behaviours into learning and development opportunities you make available across the ICS – linking them to training outcomes and referring to them within relevant documents and workshops.

Appraisals & 1:1s:

Encourage discussion and self-assessment of how well individuals are demonstrating these behaviours through their work, and what they could do to be even better.  You could also take a 360 feedback approach and ask colleagues to offer you feedback on how well you demonstrate these behaviours.

Recognition: 

Value, recognise and thank colleagues and teams who demonstrate these behaviours brilliantly through their work in the ICS - we will also be exploring ICS awards and other ways to recognise those who excel at doing this!

We are sure you will have lots of other ideas!

Whether you are applying for a role within Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care System, or are already working within our system, these behaviours sit at the heart of how we work together across all areas of health, care and wellbeing. The behaviours describe how we all expect to be treated by colleagues when working here, as well as the behaviours expected of each of us. We encourage you to demonstrate these behaviours through your work, to talk about these behaviours and what they mean with colleagues, signpost the behaviours in your system and team meetings, and actively use, reference and embed them within the work that you undertake across the system

Please contact our ICS Talent Management & Leadership Development Programme Leads Abby Oates abigailoates@nhs.net or Kate Stephens kate.stephens12@nhs.net