Equality and Health Inequalities Clinical Fellow

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Team as a Equality and Health Inequalities Clinical Fellow initially fixed term until 31/3/25 to help play a pivotal role in shaping policy formulation and implementation on healthcare inequalities across the NHS.

As a Equality and Health Inequalities Clinical Fellow, the postholder will work as part of a dynamic team be a leader in the our Health Inequalities Clinical Functional team. The clinical function team is responsible for providing clinical advice, leadership, and expertise to ensure that healthcare inequalities are tackled across national clinical policy and programmes and through the wider health system.

The post holder will work across the clinical function and in collaboration across the wider team and with key stakeholders to translate our five strategic priorities and the Core20PLUS5 approach into practicable delivery plans.

We believe clinical leadership is mission critical to achieving Core20PLUS5. In this role you will:
- Provide clinical leadership in several of the programmes in the Core20PLUS5 ecosystem will be part of your role including Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme and the Core20PLUS Ambassadors.
- Support embedding a focus on healthcare inequalities in NHS work programmes including Make Every Contact Count and the National Clinical Audits and contributing to enhancing Healthcare Inequalities content in clinical education and leadership programmes
- Support the leadership, development, and delivery of the Core20PLUS5 delivery eco-system components ensuring a robust QI, Clinical and Patient safety approach is embedded in our work.
- Collaborate with clinical leaders across the ICSs 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

You will be an existing graduate and as such be part of the Alumni community for at least one of the following:
- National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow Alumni,
- Chief Dental Officer’s Clinical Fellows Alumni or
- Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Clinical Fellow Alumni

With this experience you will be a visible leader, showing the skills and confidence to shape, influence, develop and help embed healthcare inequalities improvement initiatives across NHS England.

You will be an innovative and experienced clinical thinker with the ability to analyse problems and devise pragmatic solutions, the skills to scope and lead complex, national programmes of work to tackle health inequalities through the NHS, and the confidence to provide influential views on a whole host of issues. This will include using data and evidence to shape policy and practice, and. will have the skills and experience to and proactively prioritising the team’s activity.

With strong relationship skills, you will communicate effectively and engage internal and external stakeholders to drive delivery and practical change across the NHS.

Secondments

Salary Progression
Applicants will commence at the bottom of Band 8c with a full-time starting salary of £70,417, with a pay step increase after 5 years’ service.

This is offered in accordance with NHS Terms and Conditions and is based on office location.