Equalities and Health Inequalities Clinical Fellow

Job description

Job responsibilities

Part of the recently established Global, Public Health and Emergencies Group, the team has deep links across both NHSE and DHSC programmes, policy and clinical areas and strong connections with external partners and stakeholders.

With a national director driving the programme forward, and an established team to reflect the importance of this agenda, key projects within the portfolio include:

Supporting the reduction in healthcare inequalities through the Core20PLUS5 approach and supporting the governments three key shifts and the ambitions laid out in the 10 year health plan.

Supporting equitable shift from sickness to prevention through targeted action on Core20PLUS5 populations and interventions

An organisation-wide strategic approach to anchor practice and driving action on health literacy and patient activation.

Transforming accountability and performance through embedding health inequalities key lines of enquiry, metrics and indicatorswithin the NHS oversight framework and other key measurement, quality and performance frameworks, including modern service frameworks.

Ensuring a systematic approach to addressing digital inclusion through the NHS App and Single Patient Record.

Supporting an enabling infrastructure for delivery including the Health Inequalities Improvement Forum (for regional and system health inequalities leads), a National Health Inequalities Improvement Network (for clinical leads) which both feed into a Health Inequalities Improvement Board. We work closely with regional SROs and programme leads for health inequalities to inform our work.

Working with policy areas and programmes across NHSE to hardwire health inequalities improvement into the organisational structures and processes.

About the role:

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Team as a Equality and Health Inequalities Clinical Fellow to help play a pivotal role in shaping policy formulation and implementation on healthcare inequalities across the NHS.

As an Equality and Health Inequalities Clinical Fellow, the postholder will work as part of a dynamic team. As clinical leader within the team the poster holder will provide clinical advice, leadership, and expertise to ensure that healthcare inequalities are tackled across national clinical policy and programmes and through the wider health system.

We believe clinical leadership is mission critical to achieving Core20PLUS5. In this role you will:-

Provide clinical leadership to our health inequalities delivery workstreams, including a dedicated focus on Core20PLUS5 clinical areas, and evidence base to support a revised state of the nation overview of healthcare inequalities, utilising data and robust evidence

Work as a representative of the Health Inequalities Team on the Modern Service Frameworks lead jointly by DHSC and NHSE.

Programmes in the Core20PLUS5 ecosystem will be part of your role including connecting innovation and health inequalities

Support embedding a focus on healthcare inequalities in NHS work programmes contributing to enhancing Healthcare Inequalities content in clinical education and leadership programmes

Support the leadership, development, and delivery of the Core20PLUS5 delivery, ensuring a robust QI, Clinical and Patient safety approach is embedded in our work.

Collaborate with clinical leaders across the healthcare system to drive forward implementation of Core20PLUS5 in every day clinical work of the NHS, extracting the learning, implementing nationally developed tools and guidance, and evaluating the clinical impact of the work.

Work with National Clinical Audits teams, NICE and HQIP to ensure clinically relevant data on healthcare inequalities improvement is collected, analysed and built into recommendations. Where necessary clinically review guidance and recommendations to ensure healthcare inequalities improvement is central to the guidance.

Liaise with national clinical leaders, clinical senates, and programme directors to support the improvement of healthcare inequalities across England

Engage and collaborate with the stakeholders across NHS England to ensure that incentives to improve clinical outcomes in healthcare inequalities are evidence based, targeted and effective to improve healthcare inequalities

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Clinical or professional qualification

Desirable

• Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area

Skills Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Experience of taking evidence-based action to promote equality and narrow health inequalities within a clinical area or healthcare setting
• Knowledge of causes of inequity and health inequalities and the social determinants of health
• Knowledge of current national healthcare policy and legislation, including the Ten year health plan, Health and Social Care Act 2022 and the Equality Act 2010
• Ability to build effective cross functional working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders to drive organisational agenda Inclusive, compassionate leadership adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances

Desirable

• Track record of clinical pathway/policy delivery
• Proven senior level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex Environment
• Project management experience and training understanding of evaluation of policy deliverables QI training and experience

Values and Behaviours

Essential

• Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
• Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
• Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda

Desirable

• Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS England

Address

Any NHSE Office

Nationally

SE1 8UG

Employer's website

https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)