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BICs Learning & Development Academy

The BICS Learning and Development Academy offers a proactive learning and development programme empowering and engaging staff to make innovative improvements to patient care across whole patient pathways.

The Academy provides a range of learning opportunities. All are multi-disciplinary integrating staff groups, professions and grades. This learning is consolidated whilst implementing improvements across patient pathways and support functions.

It aims to:

• Raise awareness about BICS to engage staff in understanding the need to make, and support, patient driven improvements.
• Equip leaders and managers with greater understanding of BICS, developing the required leadership skills to support staff engagement and the sustainment of improvements.
• Improve quality and sustainment by supporting and training participants throughout improvement cycles.
• Develop a highly skilled core team of Lean practitioners.

The Academy delivers:

• A core certification programme progressing from basic awareness (Green), novice (Bronze), intermediate (Silver and Gold) to advanced practitioners (Platinum).
• Multi-disciplinary classroom based training providing a rich and positive learning environment.
• Consolidated learning whilst implementing improvements.
• Coaching and support throughout the improvement cycle.
• Visits to organisations undergoing Lean transformations to gain wider insight into its application and leadership challenges.
• Junior doctor leadership training.