Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship | BA (Hons) Applied Management

"We saw a significant change in the thinking and behaviour amongst those in our cohorts, and we’re seeing the positive benefits from the different ways in which those staff are connecting with each other across the Trust.

This programme is very different from other leadership development programmes; its multi-disciplinary approach, and the way it has been designed to address our specific issues makes it important in the development of our core values and behaviours.

Our long term strategy is to support our people and enable them to be the best they can be, and this programme fits very neatly into the suite of leadership development programmes we’ve set out. Ultimately, we want leaders who are confident in their ability to deal with complex situations and environments. Creating a culture in which education and development is integral helps us to attract and maintain the right calibre of people across all our teams.

Fundamentally, this is about delivery of outstanding care to our patients and the community we serve."

Steve McManus, CEO – Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Deepak Ravindran, Pain Consultant, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust & Winner of the CMI Apprentice of the Year Award 2021 shares his thoughts

"These three years of my time at Henley Business School and the apprenticeship through the CMI with my employer Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has been transformational in my personal and professional development and winning this award is a great recognition not just for me but also for the support I have had from Henley and RBFT in applying my newfound skills and knowledge to my workplace and make a difference.”

"I always knew that I was very good clinically in my role as a consultant, but when I became a lead, I realised that I needed to understand the principles of writing a business case. To be able to understand the principles of stakeholder engagement to be able to influence and be able to lead and manage people.

This is not something that I would have acquired in a normal clinical course of medicine because there is no teaching programme for that to happen so that was a huge amount of knowledge that I gained here. Simultaneously it gave me the opportunity to apply and actually learn by experience the skills required to do this successfully over a three-year period. The opportunity to actually network and learn from my peers and my colleagues who were doing the course with me meant that I could look at other behaviours, adopt new behaviours and refine and improve my knowledge and my skills parallelly at the same time. So there was an opportunity to improve and learn and gain new knowledge, skills and behaviours during this programme."