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Healthcare Inequalities Senior Professional Advisor
Closed for applications on: 20-Feb-2024 00:03
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 20-Feb-2024 00:03
Key details
Location
- Site
- Wellington House
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 8UG
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
Salary
- Salary
- £83,571 Per annum (excluding London HCAS) £91317 (including London HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS TCS 2023: Band 8d)
Specialty
- Main area
- Healthcare Inequalities Senior Professional Advisor
Job overview
The Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Team has been established to deliver the vision of exceptional quality healthcare for all, ensuring equitable access, excellent experience, and optimal outcomes.
The role of the Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Team is principally threefold; setting direction in relation to tackling healthcare inequalities across NHS England and the wider NHS; creating a positive improvement culture which champions data as a means of gaining actionable insight to drive interventions leading to improvement in health inequalities; and working with national teams and partners to ensure that we deliver the commitments to tackling health inequalities set out in the NHS Long-Term Plan.
Underpinning all our work is a strong focus on quality improvement with a real emphasis on data for improvement, strengths-based approaches and co-production with communities, patients, and service users.
The team has deep links across NHSE programmes, policy and clinical areas and strong connections with health inequality improvement priorities in the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), local government, big business and national VCSE organisations.
To help potential candidates learn more about our national team, the role and the work we do, we have arranged a dedicated briefing session for this role via MS Teams on Wednesday 14th Feb 2024 at 10.30am to 11.15am. This session will be lead by our National Director, Professor Bola Owolabi. If interested in joining this please let us know.
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The postholder will:
• Lead development and implementation of national NHS programmes and collaborations to tackle health inequalities, working with leaders at national, regional, ICS and provider level, and with wider partners
• Translate partnership opportunities into tangible collaborations & delivery of projects & initiatives in aid of our national healthcare inequalities improvement strategic priorities and core20PLUS5 approach
• Act as a system and thought leader on health inequalities, driving inter-agency and interdisciplinary working to deliver strategic objectives
• Monitor progress on delivery of programmes and priorities and formulate support and mechanisms to support implementation
• Provide leadership and line management support for a wider team of partnership staff
• Pro-actively build upon on strategic partnership opportunities and translate these into tangible collaborations & delivery of projects & initiatives including strategic collaboration with ALBs/non-NHS partners to maximise alignment of policy/funding opportunities across multiple organisations & channels.
Working for our organisation
On 1 April 2023 Health Education England became part of the new NHS England. Our people are our most important asset; recruiting and retaining the best talent remains crucial to our success. We continue to recruit externally where we cannot fill vacancies internally. We hope you choose to join us but please be aware that some roles may be subject to change in the future. We want to attract and retain highly skilled people to enable us to work with our partners to plan, recruit, educate and train the health workforce. Please note, some supporting documentation attached to this vacancy refers to the legacy organisation, previously known as Health Education England, now NHS England. Work is continuing to harmonise the new NHS England recruitment service and any reference to Health Education England will be updated in due course. More information about the transition to the new NHS England is available here.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Team as a Senior Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Adviser on a part-time basis – 0.6FTE.
As a Senior Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Adviser, the post-holder will play a pivotal role in leading and coordinating the development and delivery of the healthcare inequalities improvement programme. This will involve utilising a range of system levers, engaging internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring robust arrangements and capacity is in place for executing our commitments to tackle healthcare inequalities.
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service, collaborating with policy makers, programme managers and staff across NHSE and external partners to develop transformational policy and interventions in the furtherance of our five priority actions and the Core20PLUS 5 approach to support Healthcare Inequalities Improvement.
The post holder will provide professional expertise in the development, management and delivery of effective strategies and management processes, leading on specific health inequalities initiatives to address directorate and NHSE priorities.
About You
You will be a visible leader, showing the skills and confidence to develop the team and engage stakeholders effectively.
You will be an innovative, resourceful and strategic thinker with the ability to analyse problems and devise pragmatic solutions, the skills to scope and lead complex, national programmes of work to tackle health inequalities through the NHS, and the confidence to provide influential views on a whole host of issues. This will include using data and evidence to shape policy and practice, deploying excellent collaboration skills. will have the skills and experience to and proactively prioritising the team’s activity.
With strong relationship, influencing and execution skills, you will communicate effectively and engage internal and external stakeholders to drive delivery and practical change across the NHS. You will be adaptable and tenacious, with the ability to think quickly, work on a range of issues related to inequalities at all levels of the NHS, and keep going in the face of challenge or scepticism
With an established senior leadership team led by the national director and a growing team to reflect the importance of this agenda, there are several key projects that have been completed and more in the pipeline:
• Development of a Health Inequalities Improvement Framework which will set out the strategic vision to narrow the health inequalities gap amenable to healthcare interventions.
• A Health Inequalities Improvement Dashboard, and further development of a public facing dashboard, to create virtuous circles of data; providing actionable insight leading to impactful interventions and intelligence about what works.
• Establishment of an enabling infrastructure for delivery including the Health Inequalities Improvement Forum (for regional and system health inequalities leads), a National Health Inequalities Improvement Network (for clinical leads) which both feed into a Health Inequalities Improvement Board. We work closely with regional SROs and programme leads for health inequalities to inform our work.
• Working with policy areas and programmes across NHSE to hardwire health inequalities improvement into the organisational structures and processes, this includes development of statutory guidance to reflect the strengthening of health inequalities duties within the Health and Care Act 2022, and other national policy documents.
The post holder will cont:
• Will lead on complex business case development/procurements and be accountable for the development and delivery of a number of complex healthcare inequalities improvement projects and policy at any one time, within budget and in line with the programme plan.
• Monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to flag issues, risks and concerns with the relevant stakeholders.
• Deputise for the Deputy Director – Strategic Partnerships and as part of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) provide leadership across the partnership function to ensure high-quality and timely delivery across the team.
• Work with internal colleagues from across the national Healthcare Inequalities Team and regional healthcare inequalities teams, stakeholders and external SMEs to promote more joined up services and a greater focus on reducing healthcare inequalities at all levels.
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Salary Progression
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent Educated to master’s level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Desirable criteria
- Clinical or professional qualification
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of taking evidence-based action to promote equality and narrow health inequalities within a health policy or healthcare setting Track record of policy delivery Knowledge of causes of inequity and health inequalities and the social determinants of health Knowledge of current national healthcare policy and legislation, including the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and the Equality Act 2010 Experience of leadership on national policy development relating to strategy, health inequalities and equality across the NHS Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment Extensive knowledge of specialist areas plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters’ level equivalent Ability to mobilise insights/evidence/networks/relationships across multiple organisations to deliver policy and strategic objectives Distilling complex policy delivery updates into succinct, high quality summaries Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development Project management experience, training Understanding of evaluation of policy deliverables QI training and experience Training and experience in drafting responses to parliamentary questions Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHSEI and individual provider and commissioning organisations Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHSEI and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Desirable criteria
- Management experience at senior level in the NHS, wider health and social care system, or other public healthcare related industry Proven senior level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment Legal Background Member of relevant professional body Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new market opportunities. Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues. Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise. Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action. Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances. Inputs to strategic plans across NHS and within the specific teams. Demonstrable ability to deliver at pace in complex environment. Works with Stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and opening up the market. Demonstrable experience of delivering results through the development and management of teams to ensure success and use a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility Ability to build effective cross functional working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders to drive organisational agenda Inclusive, compassionate leadership
Values and behaviours
Essential criteria
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do. Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients. Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations. Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda Ensures staff for whom the post holder has line management responsibility uphold and promote the equality and diversity agenda, and act in accordance with the equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace policy. Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity. Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness. Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Abdul Hamied
- Job title
- Deputy Director -Policy and Strategic Partnerships
- Email address
- [email protected]
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