Development Opportunities of Individuals

looking for a development opportunity? FoNS offers a range of opportunities, some funded, some that require payment, all share:

  • Over 30 years’ experience of working with nurses and nurse led teams across all care settings
  • Extensive track record of generating and sharing knowledge about person-centredness and participatory approaches to developing caring cultures
  • A thorough understanding of current health and social care issues

Your options

The FoNS Residential Programme

Facilitating the development of person-centred cultures

Held annually, this opportunity will help participants to develop knowledge, skills and confidence in facilitating the development of person-centred cultures.

The FoNS Residential Programme

Resilience-based Clinical Supervision

A form of restorative clinical supervision which aims to enhance wellbeing, resilience and improve patient care. FoNS delivers ‘public programmes from time-to-time. Contact [email protected] for next dates

Resilience-based Clinical Supervision

The Richard Tompkins Scholarship

A development opportunity, for a registered nurse, midwife or health visitor who is committed to developing person-centred cultures of care. This scholarship is open to practitioners who are working clinically in any health or social care setting UK-wide

The Richard Tompkins Scholarship

The Professor Jan Dewing Memorial Award

The Professor Jan Dewing Memorial Award aims to celebrate the achievements of an individual nurse who has significantly contributed to the advancement of person-centred practice and to offer support for continued development

The Jan Dewing Award

The Inspire Improvement Fellowship

The Inspire Improvement Fellowship is an annual, funded programme. It is designed for nurses and midwives leading clinical teams in any setting in health and social care for example care homes, community, secure services, schools, acute, primary care anywhere in the UK.

Inspire Improvement Fellowship

The FoNS Learning Disability Nursing Fellowship

This is a funded development opportunity for aspiring leaders and early career frontline registered learning disability nurses

The FoNS Learning Disability Fellowship

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