Leadership Strategy 2022-2025

Our vision

Excellence in nursing and midwifery leadership

Our mission

To strengthen nursing and midwifery leadership by building capability and capacity

Our strategic intentions

We have three strategic intentions:

Articulate capabilities

Describe, articulate and cultivate “What excellent leadership looks like” for nursing and midwifery.

Key drivers

• Conceptual Framework for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership Development.
• Leader Success Profiles for N/MUMs, Facility DoNMs and LHD/SN DoNMs.
• How-to-Use the Leader Success Profiles.
• Leadership curriculum alignment to leadership capabilities.
• Success stories and examples of nurse and midwifery leaders.

Build talent

Shape a culture that promotes a consistent approach to nursing and midwifery leadership development.

Key drivers

• Nursing and midwifery pipeline and pathways.
• Mental Health Pathways in Practice Program.
• Mentoring in Midwifery Program.
• Networking groups, such as DoNM Networking Program, State Midwifery Leaders and Managers Network, Mental Health Directors of Nursing Leadership group.
• Leadership development by the MHPiP Coordinators.

Sustain capacity

Build a Nursing and Midwifery Leadership and talent pipeline that delivers fit for purpose leadership capacity across the system.

Key drivers

• Leadership program for emerging leaders through to LHD/SN DoNM.
• Leadership programs and mentoring in midwifery program to build capability and capacity of mentors.
• Pathways in practice including mental health and rural nursing.
• Continuous engagement and partnership with nursing and midwifery leaders across NSW focusing on NaMO strategic directions.

Overarching frameworks

• NSW Health Future Health Strategy 2022-2032
• NSW Public Sector Capabilities Framework
• NSW Health HETI Leadership and Management Framework
• NSW Health Talent Strategy 2022-2032 (internal only)