Professional development

• National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership
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Benefits of NPQICL

The National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NQPICL) offers benefits to both participants and their centres.

Benefits to participants

• Builds on personal experiences to deepen their understanding of learning about leadership.
• Increases awareness of practical challenges faced in leading an integrated setting.
• Creates an opportunity to relate theories about leadership to own practice.
• Enables lifelong learning skills.
• Builds greater self-awareness, personal and professional integration in a setting which requires complex management of conflicting roles and responsibilities.
• The qualification is validated as equivalent to 60 Master’s level CAT points by the delivery providers.

Benefits to centres

• Increases self confidence of all staff and builds on effective leadership roles within the centre.
• Provides a deeper understanding of the skills needed to lead and manage a children's centre.
• Develops the ability to engage and apply the values, principles and vision of the centre in order to enhance professional practice.
• Builds an effective leadership environment in order to share and support a professional learning community within the centre.