Job summary
The Head of Equality and Inclusion will report to and support the Director of Equality and Inclusion to provide strong, professional leadership in quality governance of EDI and risk across the Trust, as well as creating a strong EDI integrated team and supporting a cultural shift to ensure that EDI is seen as everyone's business and that it is explicit in everything that we do. Ensuring that the strategy remains relevant, contemporary, and aligned to core Trust business and strategic plans, you will lead the workforce EDI function; Health Inequalities function and Service Equalities/Community Engagement function to support the ambition of the organisation to be an inclusive and diverse employer and deliverer of care.
You will be responsible for integrating, coordinating, and assuring the systems and processes are in place for the delivery of high-quality EDI care and through your leadership of the EDI Strategy.
Key objectives for the post will include:
- Implementation of a delivery plan for the EDI strategy in line with the Trust corporate objective
- Developing a fully integrated EDI delivery team
- Ensuring that EDI is seen as everyone's business and is explicit in everything we do
Main duties of the job
- Reporting directly to the Director of Equality and Inclusion and acting as a specialist advisor on all issues related to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Supporting the Director of Equality and Inclusion in the delivery of EDI and related work streams, ensuring that the Trust has a compelling overarching ambition for equality and inclusion.
- Communicating and advising on potentially contentious, highly complex and sensitive equality and inclusion information with primary responsibility for negotiating delivery with key stakeholders in the clinical and Corporate Divisions.
- Developing robust monitoring, information, and reporting systems to inform improvement plans, track progress and to ensure the Trust meets its statutory reporting obligations relating to ED&I.
About us
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent
- EDI professional qualification/specialist training
Desirable
- Leadership and management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of delivering, leading and embedding inclusive change initiatives within a large complex organisation
- Demonstrate experience of managing and developing a diversity & inclusion roadmap focused on achieving measurable and sustainable results
- Demonstrate experience of managing and developing staff experience initiatives and measuring their impact through recruitment and retention data matrix
- Experience of leading and advising on equality impact analysis
Desirable
- NHS experience in E&D/service delivery
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Working knowledge of E&D regulatory framework, legislation and best practice
- Understanding of service planning, redesign activities and prioritisation
- Knowledge of the factors affecting the health of disadvantaged groups
- Ability of facilitating group sessions involving participants with a range of complex needs.
- Proven ability to work independently using own initiative to make key decisions.
- Have a good understanding of NHS Standards requirements (WRES, WDES, EDS, AIS).
- Able to apply expert knowledge of equality legislation and best practice in the context of a complex organisation
- Able to absorb complex information and analyse problems and obstacles and identify potential solutions
- Able to develop robust and credible action plans.
- Possess emotional intelligence and highly developed communication skills.
- Able to work autonomously and deliver a complex workload against agreed timescales.
- Demonstrable personal credibility and authority to secure support from senior peers and stakeholders.
Desirable
- Knowledge of health care services and delivery
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Enthusiastic and proactive approach to improvements and changes in services
- Comfortable working collaboratively with a wide range of people at different levels of seniority and effective presentation and facilitation.
- Confident, willingness and positive approach when dealing with colleagues and patients
Other Job Requirements
Essential
- Possess a good understanding of how the Equality Act 2010 works in practice and be committed to ensuring EDI is at the core of working, teaching and learning.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent
- EDI professional qualification/specialist training
Desirable
- Leadership and management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of delivering, leading and embedding inclusive change initiatives within a large complex organisation
- Demonstrate experience of managing and developing a diversity & inclusion roadmap focused on achieving measurable and sustainable results
- Demonstrate experience of managing and developing staff experience initiatives and measuring their impact through recruitment and retention data matrix
- Experience of leading and advising on equality impact analysis
Desirable
- NHS experience in E&D/service delivery
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Working knowledge of E&D regulatory framework, legislation and best practice
- Understanding of service planning, redesign activities and prioritisation
- Knowledge of the factors affecting the health of disadvantaged groups
- Ability of facilitating group sessions involving participants with a range of complex needs.
- Proven ability to work independently using own initiative to make key decisions.
- Have a good understanding of NHS Standards requirements (WRES, WDES, EDS, AIS).
- Able to apply expert knowledge of equality legislation and best practice in the context of a complex organisation
- Able to absorb complex information and analyse problems and obstacles and identify potential solutions
- Able to develop robust and credible action plans.
- Possess emotional intelligence and highly developed communication skills.
- Able to work autonomously and deliver a complex workload against agreed timescales.
- Demonstrable personal credibility and authority to secure support from senior peers and stakeholders.
Desirable
- Knowledge of health care services and delivery
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Enthusiastic and proactive approach to improvements and changes in services
- Comfortable working collaboratively with a wide range of people at different levels of seniority and effective presentation and facilitation.
- Confident, willingness and positive approach when dealing with colleagues and patients
Other Job Requirements
Essential
- Possess a good understanding of how the Equality Act 2010 works in practice and be committed to ensuring EDI is at the core of working, teaching and learning.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
