Band 8b Head of Equality & Inclusion | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B7 4BN |
| Company: | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6190038/820-6060911-COR-A |
Summary
The Head of Equality and Inclusion will report to and support the Director of Equality and Inclusion to provide strong, professional leadership in quality governance of EDI and risk across the Trust, as well as creating a strong EDI integrated team and supporting a cultural shift to ensure that EDI is seen as everyone’s business and that it is explicit in everything that we do. Ensuring that the strategy remains relevant, contemporary, and aligned to core Trust business and strategic plans, you will lead the workforce EDI function; Health Inequalities function and Service Equalities/Community Engagement function to support the ambition of the organisation to be an inclusive and diverse employer and deliverer of care.
You will be responsible for integrating, coordinating, and assuring the systems and processes are in place for the delivery of high-quality EDI care and through your leadership of the EDI Strategy.
Key objectives for the post will include:
• Implementation of a delivery plan for the EDI strategy in line with the Trust corporate objective
• Developing a fully integrated EDI delivery team
• Ensuring that EDI is seen as everyone’s business and is explicit in everything we do
• Reporting directly to the Director of Equality and Inclusion and acting as a specialist advisor on all issues related to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Supporting the Director of Equality and Inclusion in the delivery of EDI and related work streams, ensuring that the Trust has a compelling overarching ambition for equality and inclusion.
• Communicating and advising on potentially contentious, highly complex and sensitive equality and inclusion information with primary responsibility for negotiating delivery with key stakeholders in the clinical and Corporate Divisions.
• Developing robust monitoring, information, and reporting systems to inform improvement plans, track progress and to ensure the Trust meets its statutory reporting obligations relating to ED&I.
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
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For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Apr 2024