Reducing Health Inequalities Lead

at  Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Equality Diversity and Inclusion – Reducing Health Inequalities
Band 6 | 1 year Fixed Term | FTE
The Bradford District Care 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.
looking to develop their career in this area.
innovative in their approaches to creating safe, effective, accessible, inclusive and compassionate health services and work spaces.
We will support and develop you ensuring you are given a platform to further establish your own career and reputation for delivery across the Trust.
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.

EVERYTHING WE DO IS UNDERPINNED BY OUR CORE VALUES: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received .
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.
The Trust aims to be the best place to work for all and to build a sense of belonging and inclusion for our people.
We will support and develop you ensuring you are given a platform to further establish your own career and reputation for delivery across the Trust.
The team has successfully launched a Belonging and Inclusion Plan. We are in the top 10% performing Trusts for our NHS Workforce Disability Standard performance. We are in the top 25% (sample benchmarked) performing NHS Trusts for our Gender Pay Gap. We have a vibrant and committed workforce who are striving to close the gap of health inequalities and deliver outstanding care to our diverse population.
We work in a collaborative way, within and outside of our Trust to improve the working experiences and health outcomes of our workforce and the communities we serve.
We offer flexible working and working from home to support work life balance. Our Trust aims to reflect the diverse community we serve. If you would like to have a chat about the role please contact the recruiting manager. Feel free to ask any questions about the role and the organisation. We are happy to connect you with team members and stakeholders if you would like a different perspective.
You can find out more about what it is like working for the Trust here Join our team - BDC

The EDI – Reducing Health Inequalities Lead will work with the EDI Team and leads from across the organisation and wider partnership groups to ensure that the Trust is meeting all of the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 and the Statutory Duties relating to tackling Health Inequalities.
The post will support various programmes of work such as the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework, the Accessible Information Standard, the Sexual Orientation Monitoring Standard and NHS Rainbow Badge Scheme.
These programmes aim to improve access, patient experience and the outcomes of people living with long-term conditions in Bradford, Airedale and Craven, whilst reducing health inequalities. It will include action to reduce the occurrence of long-term conditions and multimorbidity and optimise outcomes, prevent complications and address the wider determinants of health. Achieving this will require partnership working across the Trust and with other health and care organisations.