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Head of Anti-Racist System and Leadership Development

Posting date:	13 February 2025
Salary:	£74,290.00 to £85,601.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£74290.00 - £85601.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	23 February 2025
Location:	Wakefield, WF1 1LT
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	D9475-ICB-619B

Summary

Work across the whole partnership with system leaders and key stakeholders from health and care organisations to identify and develop ambitions for developing an actively anti-racist culture of inclusion where diversity is seen as a strength, design and deliver interventions and developments to meet this ambition. Develop and implement qualitative and quantitative measures to determine performance against the strategy. Report progress against the strategy through personal representation at senior management forums and by written reports. Tailoring delivery to meet the needs of the audience. Evaluate, interpret and locally implement national and international best practice. Research, share and be informed by best practice, nationally and internationally. Ensure that best practice is developed and delivered across the system. Challenge ways of working and persuade, motivate and influence other senior managers to realign their practice where necessary. Fellowship Develop and deliver a senior leadership programme as part of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Fellowship programme for increasing the diversity in leadership. This will require the use of OD methodology to co-design the programme with potential participants, plan the delivery of the programme including design of taught components, sourcing external training providers and acting as account manager with suppliers, delivery and facilitation of educational modules, provision of pastoral support for senior leader participants, publicizing the programme at system wide groups, undertaking talent coaching with participants, sourcing placements across the system and liaising with host organisations to ensure required statements of commitment are fulfilled and putting in place mitigations for improvement where required. Lead the ongoing evaluation, learning and iteration of the senior leadership programme. Anti-racist leadership development Lead the co-production and delivery of an infrastructure for building anti-racist leadership practice across West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, specifically including the following: Co-produce and deliver a coalition leadership development programme for leaders racialised as white from WYHCP Embed and chair a transformational co-production group that has oversight of the anti-racist leadership practice infrastructure. Lead the delivery and embedding of building belonging learning sessions, covering topics including white ideology and active bystanding with relevant leadership groups. Lead the creation of embedding of a peer development network for leaders racialised as white in WYHCP. Lead the creation and embedding of a community of practice for colleagues from diverse backgrounds to share learning on how to meaningfully enact anti-racist leadership practice. Lead the creation of the infrastructure to ensure connectivity between the different elements of anti-racist leadership practice and the fellowship programme to maximise effectiveness of the inter-dependencies. The post-holder will be a values-based leader a role model for what we are trying to achieve with a passion for inclusion and social justice; demonstrating commitment to co-design and actively seeking diverse perspectives. Highly specialised knowledge and understanding of current thinking and practice of anti-racism, white ideology and associated systemic cultural challenges that is continually developed through research, evaluation and horizon scanning with training or experience across a number of key areas relating to System and Leadership development e.g System Thinking, System Leadership, OD, Leadership Development is core for this role