Health Inequalities Lead

Job summary

At NHS Blood and Transplant, we are committed to tackling health inequalities so every community can benefit from our life-saving work. As Health Inequalities Lead, you will support the Chief Scientific Officers Office in driving forward our health inequalities and inclusive culture action plans, ensuring they translate into real improvements for patients, donors, and staff. This role brings together evidence and activities from our laboratories, clinics, and research programmes to address conditions that disproportionately affect under-represented groups, such as sickle cell anaemia, thalassaemia and other inherited or chronic disorders. You will connect scientific insight with community engagement, helping to increase donation rates, improve access to care, and ensure our services are fair and inclusive. Guided by our values of being Caring, Expert and providing Quality, you will work across NHSBT and with external partners to advise on policy, lead data-driven improvements, and support initiatives that build a diverse and inclusive workforce. By embedding equity at the heart of what we do and championing inclusion, you will be a visible role model who raises the profile of NHSBTs life-saving mission, helping us save and improve more lives than ever, ensuring no community is left behind.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will, Leading on monitoring and reporting on progress on health inequalities and equality objectives, engaging with people from different protected characteristics, and ensuring the directorate has systems, policies and practices compliant with legislative requirements and NHS regulations. Ensuring that health inequalities and inclusive culture activities support and deliver NHSBTs shared health inequalities and inclusion vision and strategy, promoting and embedding core values that put employees, patients, and donors at the centre, and encourages continuous and sustainable improvement. Supporting the professional lead for Health Inequalities, Diversity and Inclusion development across the organisation and directorate working closely with the People and other Directorates to ensure that there are the right skills and tools to meet requirements and be a source of specialist knowledge and advice. Developing tools to support a reduction in health inequalities and an increase in inclusive leadership and wider workforce inclusion. Supporting the development of a national workforce and retention strategy including developing and evolving the recruitment and selection process for the directorate, ensuring that there are the right skills and tools to meet requirements and be a source of specialist knowledge and advice. Developing tools to support a reduction in health inequalities and an increase in inclusive leadership and wider workforce inclusion.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.