Head of Edi

Are you passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion? Do you have proven experience in leading change and creating working environments where all colleagues can thrive? Do you like a challenge?

If yes, then this role gives you an exciting opportunity to join the Organisational Development and Learning (OD&L) team here at The Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust (PAHT). This post, reporting to the Associate Director of OD and Learning, will work with stakeholders internally and externally to identify and implement changes to make a real difference to the lived experiences of our workforce and help achieve our strategic objectives.

The role is based at our offices in Kao Park, Harlow, and the successful applicant will join a diverse, professional and welcoming team. You will enjoy hybrid working and will need to be flexible about working onsite based on the needs of the role.

Job summary

Working with director of people and associate director of organisational development and learning, the head of equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI) will develop the EDI implementation plan to support the Trust’s commitment to be naturally inclusive and promote equality of opportunity and diversity for all staff members.

You will lead the implementation of the Trust's EDI strategic objectives. This includes stakeholder engagement, definition, and delivery of the implementation plan, developing a suite of metrics to monitor progress, and evaluation of the interventions.

You will lead on reporting and improving the Trust's position on the Gender Pay Gap, the Ethnicity Pay Gap, the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES) and present reports and information to our ICS partners, the Board and Board Sub-committees, showing the impact of change and on progress against EDI programmes.

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Please see the attached job description and person specification. Available to download at any time.