Job summary
- Main area
- Business and Project Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-EOE-6464564-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Victoria House
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The WT&E directorate delivers multi-professional education and training, and proactively engages with systems and partners to influence innovation and change, constructively challenge and seek assurance to lead improvements in culture, leadership and workplace experience for all, at all stages of peoples’ careers within the NHS.
The responsibilities of the directorate include:
• Delivering, setting standards for, managing, assuring, and reforming education and training to meet patient, population and service needs
• Creating an ‘improvement system’ to understand and improve leadership and talent, to ensure that the NHS is the best possible place to work in order to support the delivery of excellent patient services and care
• Setting long term strategy and direction for workforce, training and education
• Setting out near-term (~1 year and ~3 years) and longer-term (>5 years) integrated workforce plans
• Supporting and enabling systems to set their own shorter-term (~5 years) workforce projections
• Collating and assuring System and Provider integrated workforce plans
• Developing and transforming the workforce to address both short-term immediate requirements and longer-term strategic needs by reshaping and redesigning the workforce to embrace new ways of working and new models of care
• Ensuring high quality education and training for learners and students to maximise supply
Main duties of the job
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As Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team supporting the workforce across the NHS in the East of England to lead and implement specific EDI programmes, including progressing the East of England Workforce Antiracism Strategy. There will be a wide-ranging collaboration with NHS England colleagues, as well as healthcare partners across the system. You will liaise with other organisations whose activities and resources will assist that work. You will lead strategic analysis for insight into East of England's performance on workforce inclusion and work closely with other NHS England senior colleagues and programme staff to ensure that effective engagement and operational goals are achieved. Key priorities for the post are likely to include leading and working on specific programmes and priorities across the workplan. This will involve project planning and management and facilitating project teams. As a senior team member, contributing to a wider understanding of the challenges and progress facing organisations - and the NHS as a whole – as it moves to implement the East of England Workforce Race Strategic priorities and delivers sustainable system transformation. This work is likely to involve providing and implementing solutions to complex equality, diversity and inclusion challenges from within the East of England strategy framework, national policy and relevant legislation.
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Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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The post holders key responsibilities will be: · Influencing stakeholders to foster a commitment to initiatives that advance the EDI agenda, setting up board-level oversight groups on workforce inclusion and health inequalities and providing input and guidance on NHS equality and inclusion drivers · Taking a practical approach to providing advice, giving persuasive explanations of complex concepts around workforce inclusion orally and in writing to a range of stakeholders, in a clear and accessible manner · Analysing and triangulate data in innovative ways and adapt approaches to deal with ambiguity. Deploy analytical judgement in dealing with complex problems · Working with other team leaders to develop and support other staff within the wider programme team as appropriate · Contributing to collaborative work with other NHS England teams and external agencies as appropriate to help understand relevant evidence and research · Working closely with national and regional directors and their senior teams and build and manage collaborative relationships across the health system, including internal and external EDI teams, policy and analytical teams, clinical experts, and challenging external partners and stakeholders, to champion the use of analysis and insight to improve decision-making on key priorities linked to workforce inclusion. · Developing strong networks with key internal and external stakeholders and partners to ensure alignment and coordination of work to maximise impact Improving quality and outcomes · To work collaboratively across the NHS England and NHS Improvement matrix, including integrating the National Director’s portfolio.
Enabling patient and public involvement
· To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of NHS England and NHS Improvement. · To ensure all public and patient contact with the office is of the highest professional standard. · To embed patient and public involvement within NHS England and NHS Improvement at all levels of decision making.
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Promoting equality and reducing inequalities · To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality. · To create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.
Partnership and cross boundary working · To generate an inclusive, partnership way of working to ensure the success in delivering the NHS People Plan and Long Term Plan
Leadership for transformational change ● Model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes, embedding this approach across the programme and Directorate ● Use analytical techniques appropriately to improve decision-making in support of NHS England’s core objectives, and ensure that analytical resources are focused on areas where they can have maximum impact ● Develop excellent relationships with external providers of information and analysis and ensure alignment and fit ● Map local interventions and undertake evaluation of locally delivered inclusion interventions in collaboration with the learning sites and lived experience data
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Using insight and evidence for improvement
● Scan research across the health sector and beyond related to any matters relevant to workforce inclusion indicators, and good practice on supporting and promoting equality, including as appropriate assisting with high level papers and collaboration with external experts including from academic institutions ● Initiate and assist with research papers driven by or supported by analytic work which assists the workforce inclusion programme implementation ● Collate as required, qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to programme products Developing an excellent organisation · To ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of all staff within the department · To ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the department · To adhere to the NHS Managers Code of Conduct and any other relevant professional codes of conduct at all times |
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level combined with workplace training and experience in disciplines and techniques relevant to analytical work and equalities diversity and inclusion work
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Subject matter expertise of EDI issues affecting healthcare or similar environment with Knowledge of equality frameworks and benchmarking tools such as – NHS workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES) and the NHS Equality, Delivery System.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of developing and implementing change programmes on equality and inclusion, including the ability to think and work strategically
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Demonstrable senior management experience
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England/ NHS Improvement and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals.
- Experience of budgetary responsible, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes Management of staff/ functions
- Member of relevant professional body
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new market opportunities.
- Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues.
- Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
- Inputs to strategic plans across NHS and within the specific teams.
- Demonstrable ability to deliver at pace in complex environment.
- Works with Stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and opening up the market.
- Demonstrable experience of delivering results through the development and management of teams to ensure success and use a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
- Ability to build effective cross functional working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders to drive organisational agenda
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Nicholls
- Job title
- Workforce, Culture and OD Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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