The North London Foundation Trust Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team are recruiting and we're looking for someone who is:
- passionate about achieving equality and reducing health inequalities.
- innovative in their approaches to creating safe, effective, accessible, inclusive and compassionate health services and work spaces.
We are looking for someone who is confident in working with a wide range of people. Someone who can demonstrate a range of skills including community engagement and co-production, project and culture change management, communications and marketing, identifying and creating evidence based innovations and best practice in health services, training development and delivery, web and intranet page design and maintenance, someone who can contribute to strategy and policy development, analyse data and build strong networks for change.
We aim to deliver using co-production and involvement, evidence-based approaches and interventions. We are keen to strengthen our approach to evaluation and performance measurement.
We look forward to speaking to you and receiving your application.
The EDI – Health Inequalities Lead will work with the EDI team and leads across the Trust and wider partnership groups to ensure that the Trust is meeting all the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 and the Statutory Duties relating to tackling Health Inequalities.
The post holder will support various programmes which contribute to the delivery of the Trust’s EDI Strategy, State of Inequalities Plan and the Patient Carer Race Equalities Framework (PCREF), Equality Delivery System Domain 1.
These programmes aim to improve access, patient experience and the outcomes of
people living mental health and with long-term conditions in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey whilst, reducing health inequalities. It will include action to reduce disparities in restrictive practice, the occurrence of long-term conditions and multi-morbidity and optimise outcomes, prevent complications.
This role involves working with divisions and local communities to understand the population being provided for, identify any gaps in relation to access to services and implement actions to address these.
The post holder will monitor and respond to trends related to inequality in service provision in terms of access, experience and outcomes.
The post holder will take day to day responsibility for key work-streams that support the delivery of safe, compassionate care with positive patient experience at the heart of the care delivery.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
- We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Samina Arfan Job title: Associate Director EDI Email address: samina.arfan@nhs.net Telephone number: 07760781998
