The WT&E directorate delivers multi-professional education and training, and proactively engages with systems and partners to influence innovation and change, constructively challenge and seek assurance to lead improvements in culture, leadership and workplace experience for all, at all stages of peoples’ careers within the NHS.

The Responsibilities Of The Directorate Include

Delivering, setting standards for, managing, assuring, and reforming education and training to meet patient, population and service needs
Creating an ‘improvement system’ to understand and improve leadership and talent, to ensure that the NHS is the best possible place to work in order to support the delivery of excellent patient services and care
Setting long term strategy and direction for workforce, training and education
Setting out near-term (~1 year and ~3 years) and longer-term (>5 years) integrated workforce plans
Supporting and enabling systems to set their own shorter-term (~5 years) workforce projections
Collating and assuring System and Provider integrated workforce plans
Developing and transforming the workforce to address both short-term immediate requirements and longer-term strategic needs by reshaping and redesigning the workforce to embrace new ways of working and new models of care
Ensuring high quality education and training for learners and students to maximise supply

As Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team supporting the workforce across the NHS in the East of England to lead and implement specific EDI programmes, including progressing the East of England Workforce Antiracism Strategy.

There will be a wide-ranging collaboration with NHS England colleagues, as well as healthcare partners across the system. You will liaise with other organisations whose activities and resources will assist that work.

You will lead strategic analysis for insight into East of England's performance on workforce inclusion and work closely with other NHS England senior colleagues and programme staff to ensure that effective engagement and operational goals are achieved.

Key priorities for the post are likely to include leading and working on specific programmes and priorities across the workplan. This will involve project planning and management and facilitating project teams.

As a senior team member, contributing to a wider understanding of the challenges and progress facing organisations - and the NHS as a whole – as it moves to implement the East of England Workforce Race Strategic priorities and delivers sustainable system transformation.

This work is likely to involve providing and implementing solutions to complex equality, diversity and inclusion challenges from within the East of England strategy framework, national policy and relevant legislation.

The NHS England Board Have Set Out The Top-level Purpose For The New Organisation To Lead The NHS In England To Deliver High-quality Services For All, Which Will Inform The Detailed Design Work And We Will Achieve This Purpose By

Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Clare Nicholls Job title: Workforce, Culture and OD Manager Email address: clare.nicholls3@nhs.net

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