Head of Health Inequalities and Inclusion

4 weeks ago


Luton, United Kingdom Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

You will work closely with the Director of Organisational Development and the Associate Director of Corporate Governance to develop, lead and coordinate the Trust’s Equality and Diversity efforts in support of culture change. You will lead and develop the Equality and Diversity agenda and provide strategic advice and guidance on equality and diversity matters to senior leaders at the Trust.

As part of the Corporate Governance Senior Management Team, you will develop and support the delivery of the equality and inequalities strategic plan and lead the Trust in providing an inclusive and supportive culture for all staff, patients and visitors.

You will be responsible for the legal submissions for WRES/WDES and Gender Pay Gap with corresponding action plans and support the health inequalities agenda across the Trust service lines.

Develop a revised Trust equality, diversity and inclusion strategy that includes objectives and aligns with the Trust Strategy.

Design and deliver the Trust’s health inequalities improvement agenda by working collaboratively across service lines and corporate teams to fully interrogate and map out where health inequalities are affecting patient access, experience and outcomes and formulate an outline Trust strategy.

Ensure that the Trust publishes its response to requirements as specified by legislation e.g. The Equality Act 2010.

To work in partnership with service lines, Trust business intelligence and other organisations, regionally and nationally (e.g. NHS Employers, local partners) in order to effectively identify and deliver best practice in relation to service delivery and employment.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.

We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Service planning and policy development

Work with the senior management team and service planning and development managers across the organisation to:

- develop effective data collection processes to build and maintain an accurate and up-to-date profile and equality status of the local
- develop effective processes to analyse the equality and diversity impact of current service delivery, policies and
- Work with the local community to support the health inequalities agenda
- analyse the local equality and diversity implications of new national or local policies and develop appropriate implementation strategies to promote
- develop effective communication and engagement strategies to ensure community participation and engagement in service planning and development, in particular for those communities who have been previously under
- liaise with service providers across the community to support the organisation to maintain a whole of community approach to service planning and development.

Establish working relationships with equality and diversity leads across the Integrated Care System and identify key priorities for cross working.

Patient Experience and Health Inequalities

Work with the senior management team and people development managers across the organisation to:

- Compare service use, outcomes and experience across service lines and contribute to the formulation of data driven action plans that support the strategy
- Develop, implement and maintain qualitative and quantitative measures to establish and manage programme progress and performance
- Facilitate clinical teams to make evidence-based changes to services to tackle and remove inequalities in access, experience and outcomes
- Utilise surveys, existing and new audits and other tools to undertake significant Trustwide research into health inequalities

Workforce development

Work with the senior management team and people development managers across the organisation to:

- develop effective data collection processes to build and maintain an accurate and up-to-date profile and equality status of the workforce
- develop effective processes to analyse the equality and diversity impact of current workforce development policies and practices
- partner the Human Resources team in developing and implementing strategies to promote equality across all roles and job bands
- develop effective communication and engagement strategies to promote staff participation and engagement with the equality agenda
- support the development and imple


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