Entrustable Professional Activities

LG 2: Team leadership

Learning Goal 2

Team leadership

Contribute leadership within a team of health professionals to provide palliative care for patients

This activity requires the ability to:

  • prioritise workload
  • organise or coordinate multiple concurrent tasks
  • articulate and appropriately delegate individual responsibilities based on expertise and resources in the team
  • comprehend the range of team members’ skills, expertise, and roles, and monitor for accountability as appropriate
  • develop and apply leadership techniques in daily practice
  • collaborate with and motivate team members
  • promote and adopt insights from team members
  • act as a role model
  • resolve conflict

Professional practice framework domain

Medical expertise

confident
Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • synthesise information with other disciplines to develop optimal goals of care for patients
  • use evidence-based care to meet the needs of patients or populations
  • assess and effectively manage clinical risk in various scenarios
  • demonstrate clinical competence and skills by effectively supporting team members

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • demonstrate adequate knowledge of health care issues by interpreting complex information
  • assess the spectrum of problems to be addressed
  • apply medical knowledge to assess the impact and clinical outcomes of management decisions
  • provide coordinated and quality health care for populations or patients as a member of a multidisciplinary team

Communication

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Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • communicate clearly and respectfully with other health professionals and members of relevant multidisciplinary teams within and outside the palliative care team
  • prepare succinct and well-written documentation, including medical record notes, letters, symptom management plans for health professionals, and symptom management plans for children and families
  • apply relevant communication skills to resolve conflict between health professionals and with children and families
  • include children and families, as appropriate, in discussions with the multidisciplinary team
  • develop rapport with people at all levels by tailoring messages to different stakeholders

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • communicate adequately with colleagues, patients, and/or the public
  • respect the roles of team members

Quality and safety

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Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • participate in surveillance and monitoring of adverse events and near misses
  • identify activities within systems to reduce errors, improve patient and population safety, and implement cost-effective change
  • place safety and quality of care first in all decision making

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • participate in audits and other activities that affect the quality and safety of patients’ care
  • participate in multidisciplinary collaboration to provide effective health services and operational change
  • use information resources and electronic medical record technology where available

Teaching and learning

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Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • reflect regularly to self-evaluate personal professional practice, skills, and knowledge, and address gaps through self-directed learning
  • actively seek feedback from supervisors and colleagues on performance as a team member and team leader
  • maintain current knowledge of medical advances, as well as health care priorities and expectations of the child, family, and health care teams
  • teach competently by imparting professional knowledge
  • manage and monitor learner progress, providing regular assessment and feedback

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • accept feedback constructively, and change behaviour in response
  • recognise the limits of personal expertise, and involve other health professionals as needed
  • demonstrate basic skills in facilitating colleagues’ learning

Cultural safety

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Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • demonstrate culturally competent relationships with children and families, professional colleagues, and stakeholders
  • demonstrate inclusion of and respect for diversity and difference
  • take steps to minimise unconscious bias, including the impact of gender, religion, cultural beliefs, and socioeconomic background on decision making

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Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • demonstrate awareness of cultural diversity and unconscious bias
  • work effectively and respectfully with people from different cultural backgrounds

Ethics and professional behaviour

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Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • promote a team culture of shared accountability for decisions and outcomes
  • encourage open discussion of ethical and clinical concerns
  • respect differences between multidisciplinary team members, and model respectful conversations when there are differing approaches and opinions
  • apply the ethics of resource allocation
  • effectively consult with stakeholders
  • acknowledge personal conflicts of interest and unconscious bias to ensure these do not negatively impact patient care
  • act collaboratively to resolve behavioural incidents and conflicts, including harassment and bullying

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • support ethical principles in clinical decision making
  • maintain standards of medical practice by recognising the health interests of patients or populations as primary responsibilities
  • respect the roles and expertise of other health professionals
  • work effectively as a member of a team
  • promote team values of honesty, discipline, and commitment to continuous improvement
  • demonstrate understanding of the negative impact of workplace conflict

Judgement and decision making

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Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • evaluate health services and clarify expectations to support systematic, transparent decision making
  • make decisions when faced with multiple and conflicting health professionals’ perspectives
  • ensure medical input to organisational decision making
  • adopt a systematic approach to analysing information from a variety of specialties to make decisions that benefit health care delivery

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • monitor services and provide appropriate advice
  • review new health care interventions and resources
  • interpret appropriate data and evidence for decision making

Leadership, management, and teamwork

confident
Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • combine team members’ skills and expertise to deliver patient care and/or population advice
  • develop and lead effective multidisciplinary teams by developing and implementing strategies to motivate and support others
  • build effective relationships with and between multidisciplinary team members to achieve optimal outcomes
  • ensure all members of the team are accountable for their individual practice

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • understand the range of personal and other team members’ skills, expertise, and roles
  • acknowledge and respect the contribution of all health professionals involved in patients’ care
  • participate effectively and appropriately in multidisciplinary teams
  • seek out and respect the perspectives of multidisciplinary team members when making decisions

Health policy, systems, and advocacy

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Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • engage in appropriate consultation with stakeholders
  • advocate for the resources and support for health care teams to achieve organisational priorities
  • influence the development of organisational policies and procedures to optimise health outcomes
  • identify the determinants of health for patient populations, and mitigate barriers to access to care
  • remove self-interest from solutions to health advocacy issues

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • communicate with stakeholders within the organisation about health care delivery
  • understand methods used to allocate resources to provide high-quality care
  • promote the development and use of organisational policies and procedures