Embedding Sustainable
Business Practices
The Academy aims to support healthcare in Ireland through a range of development supports, driving change through Operational Excellence workshops and advisory services.
Building a culture of operational excellence and enabling staff to leverage Lean tools and methodologies in their day-to-day work to drive significant change.
To date, the HSE Lean Academy has provided high quality, high impact and university-accredited programmes to over 500 HSE employees and realised tangible savings across the organisation.
Training Pathway
The HSE Lean Academy offers a full Lean Six Sigma Healthcare pathway from White belt through Yellow and Green Belts on to Black Belt level certified by the University of Limerick. These innovative work-based programmes leverage blended delivery to facilitate skills development on-the-job, for the-job and to improve-the-job:
Lean White Belt
1-Hour online course that introduces the benefits of Lean in the organisation
Lean Yellow Belt
Blended programme that provides the practical skills to deliver a Lean project
Lean Green Belt
Blended programme that delivers significant Process Improvement projects
Process Mapping
Blended programme that outlines the skills to map current state processes
Lean Champions
One-day programme is designed to equip Senior Managers and Lean Champions with the overall information and tools needed to build their own internal programmes
Upcoming Programmes
The HSE Lean Academy offers an innovative suite of mentoring, coaching and training services underpinned by Lean principles and Sustainable practices, to all staff across the health sector.
Environmental Sustainability Skills for Healthcare Managers
The Environmental Sustainability Skills for Healthcare Managers aims to provide supervisors and managers with a strategic and operational overview of environmental sustainability as it affects healthcare.
The programme covers the understanding of the strategic opportunities and constraints that environmental sustainability presents organisations; the importance of resource efficiency; the impact of environmental sustainability across the value chains.
Environmental Sustainability Skills for Healthcare Staff
The Environmental Sustainability Skills for Healthcare Staff is perfect for those working in any role across the HSE to ensure that environmental sustainability is embedded into all aspects of work.
The programme covers the main environmental risks and opportunities facing the HSE; the importance of resource efficiency; the impacts of pollution, prevention, control and legislation; the impact of transport; and knowing how employees can support environmental sustainability.
Sustainable Procurement
This programme is for Leaders and Senior Practitioners seeking to establish sustainability within procurement and supply chains.
This programme will cover all current thinking on Sustainable Procurement, taking delegates through a series of tools and approaches to determine how to progress Sustainable Procurement organisation-wide.
Lean for Sustainable Healthcare
The Lean for Sustainable Healthcare programme provides the practical skills and knowledge to identify, analyse and develop solutions for simple Operational Excellence Projects.
Learners will manage a work-based project throughout the programme to deliver benefits that make a real impact on the organisation.
Lean Yellow Belt
The Lean Yellow Belt programme provides the practical skills and knowledge to identify, analyse and develop solutions for simple Operational Excellence Projects.
Learners will manage a work-based project throughout the programme to deliver benefits that make a real impact on the organisation.
Process Mapping
This programme is designed to teach learners the methodology and skills to map current state processes.
Once mapped, learners will be equipped with the skills to interpret, understand and analyse their current processes.
Lean Green Belt
The aim of the Lean Green Belt programme is to embed knowledge and skills within the workforce and across an organisation.
This will enable the delivery of Operational Excellence projects through the application of Lean processes and tools.
Lean White Belt
The Lean White Belt programme serves as an introduction to Lean Tools and Thinking enabled by the HSE Lean Academy.
It provides learners with an introduction to how Lean is bringing about positive change in HSE by driving a culture of continuous improvement throughout the HSE Business Units across the country.
HSE Lean Community of Practice
The HSE Lean Community of Practice brings together all Lean Yellow and Green Belt graduates, tutors, champions and others to continue to collaborate and share knowledge, Lean tools and internal and external best practices and experiences from across the country in an innovative and dynamic environment.
CoP events are held once a quarter, the topics and themes discussed are decided by you and for you.
Topics such as Process Mapping, Lean Waste and Lean Training have been discussed at previous events.
Register your interest for the next Lean Community of Practice event here.