EDI Officer

Job summary

EDI Officer

Band 5, Full Time, Permanent

The Equality Diversity & Inclusion Officer will work under the supervision and guidance of the Head of Diversity, Inclusion to support the delivery of the EDI Strategy. This is with the aim of enabling all our people to have a positive experience of work, particularly those with protected characteristics as defined in the Equality Act 2010; to ensure our people are represented across all levels of the organisation; to develop a culture which is free Excellent care with compassion from bullying, harassment or discrimination; to support the health and wellbeing of our people and to ensure everyone is supported to achieve their full potential at work.

They will be required to support the Head of EDI and the EDI Officer to establish and implementation of a range of interventions, collecting and analysing data to support reporting and evaluation purposes. They will be required to co-ordinate and facilitate inclusion events and to develop resources and communications to support and promote interventions across all available media channels.

*ONCE WE HAVE A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF APPLICANTS THIS VACANCY WILL CLOSE *

Interview Date - 4TH NOVEMBER 2025

Main duties of the job

o Support the implementation of the EDI Strategy and Action Plan for the Trust.

o Work with the Head of EDI and EDI manager to assist in the design and deliver of initiatives throughout the year to support the inclusion agenda at local level.

o Support the delivery and coordination of specific events either internally, such as staff engagement forums, annual Valuing Diversity conference, celebration of diversity events across the protected characteristic throughout the year, such as LGBT History Month, Black History Month, Disability Awareness, International Women's day and various others.

About us

EDI is a small informal team with a big agenda. Team working is essential to the delivery of the EDI Strategy. However the post holder is expected to be proactive and self organised. We work in a non hierarchical way and so information and knowledge is shared. Our weekly team meeting sets the agenda , timetable and expectations and responsibility for our work.

Development opportunities are supported and encouraged.