Edi Lead

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is seeking a passionate and experienced individual to join our award-winning team as an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) for a 9 month internal secondment to cover maternity leave. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in promoting and advancing our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Provide senior leadership and expertise for EDI across the Trust.
- Ensure compliance with legislative, national, and organisational EDI requirements,
- Lead the operational delivery of the EDI work plan, ensuring timely and resource-efficient outcomes.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to promote EDI initiatives and best practices.
- Coordinate and deliver EDI training and development for all staff.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Making equalities mainstream
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is strongly committed to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation. This is because we know that this will make us a stronger organisation and as such will enable us to achieve our vision ‘to work together to provide high quality care for every patient, every day’
We are committed to ensuring that all our staff can succeed and thrive. Working closely with services, managers and key stakeholders across the organisation to create, develop and inspire a culture of equality, diversity and inclusiveness, the post holder will:

- provide senior leadership and expertise for equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) across the Trust, working closely with partner organisation as appropriate. They will play a key role in supporting the divisions/directorate to deliver the Trust Workforce Strategy, specifically the ‘creating inclusive workplaces’ and ‘caring for the health and wellbeing of our staff’ themes.
- Improving patient access and experience, and better health outcomes for patients.
- be knowledgeable on workforce equality and diversity issues within the NHS, e.g. national NHS strategies including, but not limited to, the NHS long term plan and the NHS People Plan,
- Take responsibility for ensuring the Trust meets legislative, national and organisational requirements inclusive of the capture, reporting and publication of data, e.g. Equality Act 2010; Public Sector Equality, Specific Duties Regulations. Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), the Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES) and Gender Pay Gap.
- Develop and manage systems that enable the Trust Board and stakeholders to assess and be assured of equality performance, inclusive of detailed advice and information on the interpretation, implementation and monitoring of legislative and other equality requirements including work undertaken
- Project manages programmes focused on EDI agreed outcomes. Responsible for leading the operational delivery of EDI work plan, working closely with colleagues within the Trust to achieve the agreed outcomes ensuring that they are delivered within the resources available and on time
- Measure and monitor the outcomes of the Trust EDI work plan, working with colleagues to develop new programs and practices that effectively increase diversity and inclusion.