Job summary
- Main area
- Equality Diversity and Inclusion
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-MID-6730639-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birmingham Any Midlands NHSE office
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/11/2024
Employer heading
Equality Diversity and Inclusion Deputy Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
Are you passionate about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion priorities and developing people to be the best they can be? Do you want to be part of a regional team that is committed to improving patient care and staff experience through the development of exceptional leaders?
The NHS England – Midlands, People Talent and Culture team are seeking a Equality Diversity and Inclusion Deputy Manager to join our regional team working across the whole of the Midlands region. We are looking for a supportive, resilient and confident colleague who will work flexibly in a matrix structure and enjoys contributing to different project work.
The purpose of the People, Talent, and Culture sub-directorate is:
· To deliver on the People Promise and the cultural elements that ensure best practice across the ICBs and addresses the multiple factors that lead reactively and proactively to organisations in SOF
· To lead the talent management and leadership development strategy for the region.
· To ensure that EDI is embedded across the ICBs in all they do and to act as a centre of excellence for best practice in all cultural elements.
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Directorate to work on the development of transformational policy for Equality and Health Inequalities.
Main duties of the job
The role supports the Equality Diversity and Inclusion workstream in the People Talent and Culture team in driving transformation. The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop a strong service delivery. Assistant Director of EDI and their team to ensure that their work stream of programmes is planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery:
· Liaise with appropriate functions within the regions, organisation, and the Sector. Manage and overall coordination of leader development interventions across the region.
· Oversight and management of all aspects of the team projects.
· The postholder will champion equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and be proactive as a member of the team and as a line manager (if applicable) in the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion to ensure that EDI is embedded into their working culture, behaviour, values and practice.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In particular, but not limited to, the post holder will:
- Support the team in monitoring and analyse provider service performance data for equality and health inequalities making recommendations for improvements.
- Be able to make judgments on complex equality data and present the information to a range of audiences in an accessible format ensuring that the key messages are understood by the target audience.
- Support the team to ensure that their work stream of programmes is planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery:
- Be required to maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.
- Participate in relevant working groups/projects, services, and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise.
- Present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to a wide range of stakeholders.
- To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of NHS England.
- To ensure all public and patient contact with the office is of the highest professional standard.
- To embed patient and public involvement within NHS England at all levels of decision making.
We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit; we value people irrespective of age, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, belief or religion to enrich all our understanding and success as an organisation. Our ambition is to work together to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and confirms our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity and build a sense of belonging that enables everyone to thrive.
We pride ourselves in supporting colleagues within our own team with regular objective setting and performance reviews and support with any CPD required relevant to your current role or future aspirations. We will assist you to develop your own career within the NHS while we work together to support NHS colleagues across our region.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Post-graduate degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable specialist knowledge in a relevant discipline
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
- Monitor and analyse provider service performance data for equality and health inequalities making recommendations for improvements
- Make judgments on complex equality data and present the information to a range of audiences in an accessible format ensuring that the key messages are understood by the target audience
Desirable criteria
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques, and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
Skills, Capabilities and Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Clear communicator with excellent written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
Values and behaviours
Essential criteria
- The post holder will champion equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and be proactive as a member of the team in the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion to ensure that EDI is embedded into their working culture, behaviour, values and practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Yvonne Walker
- Job title
- Talent and Leadership Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07823 665 087
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