Job responsibilities
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To provide
leadership and effective management of all equality, diversity, inclusion, and co-production
activity enabling improved accessibility and equality of opportunity for all
stakeholders across the LMWS service.
KEY DUTIES/RESPONSIBLITIES
1.
To lead on, manage and annually review the services
Health Equity Action Plan in collaboration with the LMWS Board.
2.
Within the Health Equity action plan, there will be
a focus on four elements which are; Leadership, Workforce, Service Delivery and
Population Health
3.
To ensure the LMWS Board is supported to embed
Co-Production principles into decision making and to effectively facilitate the
engagement and involvement of the LMWS Co-Production Network.
4. To lead, motivate, develop and coach
staff within the Coproduction team and a team of Inclusion officers. .
5. To ensure the service has robust
arrangements in place to capture, analyse and act on equality monitoring data
to inform service improvements and employment best practice.
6. To write and present annual diversity
audit reports covering employment and service delivery.
7. To Chair and lead on working/sub/task
& finish groups as directed by the LMWS Board.
8. To work closely with all Cluster
managers and their teams to ensure consistency of approach and be the point of
contact for expert advice including the delivery of briefing sessions.
9. To draft relevant policies, procedures
and strategies as directed by the LMWS Board or line manager.
10. To draft and present contract
monitoring/performance reports to the commissioner on work related to health
inequalities, peer support and co-production.
11. To work in partnership with HR and Strategic
Delivery/Operational Delivery colleagues to inform inclusive staff recruitment,
retention and development strategies.
12. To deliver and facilitate learning and
training sessions as directed by the Partnership Board, the Strategic Delivery
Group/Operational Delivery Group.
13. To deliver induction seminars to the
LMWS workforce outlining the work that the Inclusion Team deliver within LMWS.
14. To lead on specified projects/development
work as directed by the LMWS Board/Strategic Delivery Group and line manager.
15. To support the service to lead on and
facilitate service user consultation and involvement activities.
16. To develop links, relationships and
alliances with organisations in the city representing protected
characteristic groups and diverse communities.
17. To represent the service on local,
regional and national equality/diversity/health inequalities networks/forums.
18. To support development of protected
characteristics staff support and network groups through the Inclusion
Coordinator role
19. To keep up to date and share knowledge
around current legislative, public policy and best practice advice and guidance
on equality, diversity and inclusion matters.
MANAGING STAFF
1. To provide day to day leadership to the
team of paid staff in line with Touchstones policies. To ensure that staff carry out the key tasks
expected of them.
2. To carry out regularly supervisions and
annual Touchstone employee appraisals. Monitor individual performance against
agreed targets.
3. To conduct regular Training Needs
Analyses with all employees in the team.
4. To ensure that employees adhere to
Touchstones policies and procedures.
5. To lead and participate in the
recruitment, selection and induction of Touchstone employees as appropriate.
SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
1.
To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of equality,
diversity, inclusion and co-
production and to apply this
knowledge to the needs of the LMWS service
2.
To develop and maintain a cohesive service team
that meets the needs of the
LMWS service and its partners.
FINANCE
1.
To effectively manage delegated budgets and ensure
all purchasing is undertaken in accordance with Touchstones expectations.
2.
To ensure that premises are well maintained and
comply with relevant legislation and regulations.
GENERAL
1.
To
take part in the Manager on Call Rota, providing assistance to Touchstone staff
out of office hours.
2. To actively promote and provide information about
the LMWS service and equal opportunities best practice to other Touchstone
services and to people/agencies with an interest in the work of the LMWS.
3. To be inducted, supervised, performance monitored
and appraised in line with the organisations
performance management policies and procedures.
4. To be responsible for personal learning
and development where appropriate and undertake training, both mandatory and
optional, to increase knowledge, skills and awareness.
5. To provide monitoring information and
reports as part of funding and organisational requirements and for the Board of
Trustees as requested by Touchstone management.
6. To be aware of and employ the general
practices of Touchstones health and safety policy and ensure these are adhered
to at all times.
7. To operate within the values, aims,
policies and practices of Touchstone at all times and to be committed to and
promote the organisations equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory
policies.
8. To keep the Operations Director informed
of serious incidents, safeguarding
issues,
health & safety concerns, financial issues, service user and staff welfare
issues.
9.
To
be aware of and employ the general practices of organisational Safeguarding and
Health and Safety policies and ensure these are adhered to at all times.
10. To ensure that appropriate monitoring
and evaluation systems are set up and
maintained.
This includes the development of new record keeping systems, analysing
information and compiling reports based on qualitative and quantitative
monitoring and evaluation data as required by commissioners and
Touchstone.
11. To lead on the development and
maintenance of links with public and voluntary
sector
partners.
12. To always work as
part of a team. This includes working
with other staff,
attending team and staff meetings and developing a
teamwork approach to all
aspects of the work.
13. To be an information asset owner
ensuring information is dealt with in accordance with information governance,
data protection and GDPR eg including carrying out data protection impact
assessments, data flow, service records of process activity. Also to prepare
information in accordance with data subject access requests.
14. To ensure that staff attend mandatory
training on information governance, data protection and GDPR and Policies are
adhered eg Confidentiality, Communications, Internet, Email and
Telecommunications and steps are taken to ensure that confidential information
is secure e.g. service user data
15. To ensure information is dealt with in
accordance with Touchstones policies
around
GDPR, Confidentiality, Communications, Internet, Email and
Telecommunications
and steps are taken to ensure that confidential information is secure e.g. volunteer
and service user data.
16. To ensure that Data Protection, Health
& Safety, Complaints Handling and Corporate Governance requirements are
met.
17. To undertake out of hours and weekend
work as required by the service.
18. To undertake any other duties as
directed by the Operations Director, in line with the responsibilities of this
post.
July
2024
