Job summary
Expected Shortlisting
Date
24/02/2025
Planned Interview
Date
06/03/2025
Do
you want to have a positive and significant influence on shaping the culture
of a health and care system; enabling vision and ambition to be realised
through working with senior leaders on delivering against our strategic
ambitions to make a difference to colleagues and the population of West
Yorkshire. Are you passionate about creating a culture of belonging where
people can be themselves and fulfil their potential, enabling our system to
gain from the innovation and creativity that comes from diverse thinking and
understanding the lived experiences of our people.
If
yes, then read on!
Working
as part of a compassionate, inclusive and innovative system and leadership
development team as part of the People Directorate of NHS West Yorkshire ICB
you will lead the design, delivery and evaluation of the establishment of an
infrastructure to develop anti-racist leadership practice across WY health
and care partnership. You will also lead and be part of the delivery team for
the well-established and award-winning fellowship programme to develop
diverse leaders.
Main duties of the job
As
Head of Anti-Racist System and Leadership Development at NHS West Yorkshire
Integrated Care Board (ICB) you will work across the breadth of West
Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership on a highly challenging and complex
agenda to directly influence culture change; directly contributing towards
achieving one of our 10 big strategic ambitions to increase the diversity of
our leadership and tackle health inequalities in West Yorkshire. Youll join a small, supportive and
creative team committed to enabling the achievement of our exciting
partnership ambitions. Youll be able to bring your highly developed
knowledge of anti-racism and significant expertise and experience in leading
and influencing system-wide culture change to enable the achievement of our West
Yorkshire ambitions.
The
post holder will report to and deputise for the Associate Director of System
and Leadership Development, providing line management for team colleagues and
will provide expert consultancy and direct facilitation for the development,
delivery and continual evaluation and improvement of West Yorkshire Health
and Care Partnerships approach to achieving diverse leadership.
A
strong track record of leading delivery across multiple contentious, large
scale priorities, in a complex adaptive context, working collaboratively with
and influencing senior system leaders is a must.
About us
NHS West Yorkshire ICB works to improve population health
and reduce inequalities, addressing diverse community needs. As part of the
West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, we collaborate with local councils,
health providers and community organisations.
We value diversity as a strength that enhances creativity
and patient outcomes. Committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive
workplace, we prioritise wellbeing and encourage applications from all areas of
the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of their
protected characteristics.
We support Carers with a Carer friendly environment and a
working Carer passport. As a Mindful Employer, we support employees and
applicants with mental health conditions. As a Disability Confident Employer,
we guarantee interviews for suitable applicants meeting the essential criteria.
Please let us know of any required adjustments.
Lease cars are a benefit offered by the organisation
subject to eligibility. Fleet Solutions provides these cars, and any Fleet cars
will transfer (novate) through them. The organisation cannot transfer cars from
other lease providers that Fleet Solutions will not novate with.
Note:This advert may close
early due to high application volume, or be paused or withdrawn in line with
our policies if an applicant at risk or on pay protection applies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Work across the whole partnership
with system leaders and key stakeholders from health and care organisations
to identify and develop ambitions for developing an actively anti-racist
culture of inclusion where diversity is seen as a strength, design and deliver
interventions and developments to meet this ambition.
Develop and implement qualitative
and quantitative measures to determine performance against the strategy.
Report progress against the strategy through personal representation at
senior management forums and by written reports. Tailoring delivery to meet
the needs of the audience.
Evaluate, interpret and locally
implement national and international best practice.
Research, share and be informed by
best practice, nationally and internationally.
Ensure that best practice is
developed and delivered across the system. Challenge ways of working and
persuade, motivate and influence other senior managers to realign their
practice where necessary.
Fellowship
Develop and deliver a senior
leadership programme as part of the West Yorkshire Health and Care
Partnership Fellowship programme for increasing the diversity in leadership.
This will require the use of OD
methodology to co-design the programme with potential participants, plan the
delivery of the programme including design of taught components, sourcing
external training providers and acting as account manager with suppliers,
delivery and facilitation of educational modules, provision of pastoral
support for senior leader participants, publicizing the programme at system
wide groups, undertaking talent coaching with participants, sourcing
placements across the system and liaising with host organisations to ensure
required statements of commitment are fulfilled and putting in place
mitigations for improvement where required.
Lead the ongoing evaluation,
learning and iteration of the senior leadership programme.
Anti-racist
leadership development
Lead the co-production and delivery
of an infrastructure for building anti-racist leadership practice across West
Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, specifically including the following:
Co-produce and deliver a coalition
leadership development programme for leaders racialised as white from WYHCP
Embed and chair a transformational
co-production group that has oversight of the anti-racist leadership practice
infrastructure.
Lead the delivery and embedding of
building belonging learning sessions, covering topics including white
ideology and active bystanding with relevant leadership groups.
Lead the creation of embedding of a
peer development network for leaders racialised as white in WYHCP.
Lead the creation and embedding of
a community of practice for colleagues from diverse backgrounds to share
learning on how to meaningfully enact anti-racist leadership practice.
Lead the creation of the
infrastructure to ensure connectivity between the different elements of
anti-racist leadership practice and the fellowship programme to maximise
effectiveness of the inter-dependencies.
The
post-holder will be a values-based leader a role model for what we are trying
to achieve with a passion for inclusion and social justice; demonstrating
commitment to co-design and actively seeking diverse perspectives. Highly
specialised knowledge and understanding of current thinking and practice of
anti-racism, white ideology and associated systemic cultural challenges that
is continually developed through research, evaluation and horizon scanning
with training or experience across a number of key areas relating to System
and Leadership development e.g System Thinking, System Leadership, OD,
Leadership Development is core for this role
Job description
Job responsibilities
Work across the whole partnership
with system leaders and key stakeholders from health and care organisations
to identify and develop ambitions for developing an actively anti-racist
culture of inclusion where diversity is seen as a strength, design and deliver
interventions and developments to meet this ambition.
Develop and implement qualitative
and quantitative measures to determine performance against the strategy.
Report progress against the strategy through personal representation at
senior management forums and by written reports. Tailoring delivery to meet
the needs of the audience.
Evaluate, interpret and locally
implement national and international best practice.
Research, share and be informed by
best practice, nationally and internationally.
Ensure that best practice is
developed and delivered across the system. Challenge ways of working and
persuade, motivate and influence other senior managers to realign their
practice where necessary.
Fellowship
Develop and deliver a senior
leadership programme as part of the West Yorkshire Health and Care
Partnership Fellowship programme for increasing the diversity in leadership.
This will require the use of OD
methodology to co-design the programme with potential participants, plan the
delivery of the programme including design of taught components, sourcing
external training providers and acting as account manager with suppliers,
delivery and facilitation of educational modules, provision of pastoral
support for senior leader participants, publicizing the programme at system
wide groups, undertaking talent coaching with participants, sourcing
placements across the system and liaising with host organisations to ensure
required statements of commitment are fulfilled and putting in place
mitigations for improvement where required.
Lead the ongoing evaluation,
learning and iteration of the senior leadership programme.
Anti-racist
leadership development
Lead the co-production and delivery
of an infrastructure for building anti-racist leadership practice across West
Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, specifically including the following:
Co-produce and deliver a coalition
leadership development programme for leaders racialised as white from WYHCP
Embed and chair a transformational
co-production group that has oversight of the anti-racist leadership practice
infrastructure.
Lead the delivery and embedding of
building belonging learning sessions, covering topics including white
ideology and active bystanding with relevant leadership groups.
Lead the creation of embedding of a
peer development network for leaders racialised as white in WYHCP.
Lead the creation and embedding of
a community of practice for colleagues from diverse backgrounds to share
learning on how to meaningfully enact anti-racist leadership practice.
Lead the creation of the
infrastructure to ensure connectivity between the different elements of
anti-racist leadership practice and the fellowship programme to maximise
effectiveness of the inter-dependencies.
The
post-holder will be a values-based leader a role model for what we are trying
to achieve with a passion for inclusion and social justice; demonstrating
commitment to co-design and actively seeking diverse perspectives. Highly
specialised knowledge and understanding of current thinking and practice of
anti-racism, white ideology and associated systemic cultural challenges that
is continually developed through research, evaluation and horizon scanning
with training or experience across a number of key areas relating to System
and Leadership development e.g System Thinking, System Leadership, OD,
Leadership Development is core for this role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters in relevant subject related to system and leadership development
- Psychometric profiling
Experience
Essential
- Senior level experience across specialist areas of system and leadership development including System Thinking, System Leadership, OD, Leadership Development
- Experience in the use of a coaching approach
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Able to use coaching and facilitation skills to enable inclusive and transformative dialogue to aid development and manage conflict.
- Able to communicate with tact and sensitivity where appropriate
- Networking skills for developing working relationships and alliances between individuals, teams and organisations
- Providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive or contentious information and support delivery of such information to a wide range of differing groups at all levels
- Ability to assimilate detailed information quickly
- Planning and organising skills; able to plan complex and conflicting cross system activities and demands, working to tight and often changing timescales and priorities
- Ability to think strategically and translate vision and ambition into operational plans; moving between details and the bigger picture, assimilating and sense-making of complex, abstract and dynamic i
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Highly specialised knowledge and understanding of current thinking and practice of anti-racism, white ideology and associated systemic cultural challenges that is continually developed through researc
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters in relevant subject related to system and leadership development
- Psychometric profiling
Experience
Essential
- Senior level experience across specialist areas of system and leadership development including System Thinking, System Leadership, OD, Leadership Development
- Experience in the use of a coaching approach
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Able to use coaching and facilitation skills to enable inclusive and transformative dialogue to aid development and manage conflict.
- Able to communicate with tact and sensitivity where appropriate
- Networking skills for developing working relationships and alliances between individuals, teams and organisations
- Providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive or contentious information and support delivery of such information to a wide range of differing groups at all levels
- Ability to assimilate detailed information quickly
- Planning and organising skills; able to plan complex and conflicting cross system activities and demands, working to tight and often changing timescales and priorities
- Ability to think strategically and translate vision and ambition into operational plans; moving between details and the bigger picture, assimilating and sense-making of complex, abstract and dynamic i
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Highly specialised knowledge and understanding of current thinking and practice of anti-racism, white ideology and associated systemic cultural challenges that is continually developed through researc
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.
