How to apply

Leading for the Future

How to apply

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We are delighted to announce that the application process for the 2025 Cohort of Leading for the Future opens on week commencing 24 February 2025, and will close in April 2025.

Applications

For Social Care, Social Work, the Third Sector or Partner Organisations please contact nes.leadingtochangeconfidential@nhs.scot for an application form.

For Health, contact the Organisational Development Lead for your Health Board or Health and Social Care Partnership. If you are unsure who to contact, or for more information, please contact leadership@nes.scot.nhs.uk.

Applications forms, to be received by the closing date for your area, will be reviewed by the relevant organisation to shortlist the candidates based on the following.

Key Information

Applications must be signed off by a sponsor, demonstrating a full commitment to supporting the individual to invest the time in preparing for and attending all events and to putting into action the learning. Applicants will be asked to:

Demonstrate how they are already working with complexity, for which there is no apparent solution;

Share an adaptive issue they would like to work on if their application is successful;

Outline the benefit to them, their organisation and wider system in them taking part;

Demonstrate their motivation and appetite for self-reflection and development;

Confirm they can attend all dates they select in their application form.