Band 8a Inclusion Health Manager

Job summary

We are looking for a self-motivated Health Inclusion Manager to help reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes for the diverse communities we serve.

You will use data, evidence, and lived experience to identify disparities, turn insights into action, and provide expert advice to senior colleagues. Building strong relationships across the Trust, local Place partnerships, and the wider North East London system, you will champion equity and inclusion and support teams to deliver meaningful change.

We are seeking someone who is analytically strong, strategic, and confident working with diverse stakeholders to improve outcomes.If you want to join a team creating a culture of inclusion and a movement for change--and you are hopeful, helpful, honest, and humble--we want to hear from you.

You would actively support the staff Network Chairs and members as key stakeholders that lead on actions that set the future direction of the Trust.

The Health Inclusion Manager will create and maintain the conditions for ambitious and creative strategic thinking - using well-developed analytical skills, intellectual curiosity and an understanding of 'what works to support ongoing strategic development in the Trust and support emerging priorities across health and care in terms of access, equity and inclusion obligations.

Interview date week commencing 2nd March 2026

Main duties of the job

The Equality and Inclusion (EDI) and health Inequalities team are a small team, who play an important role in working flexibly across the trusts long term strategic objectives and goals particularly in relation to equity of access, experience and health outcomes.

They provide subject matter expertise (SME) across all aspects of EDI and Health Inequalities inclusion and work to ensure these are central to and underpin discussion and decision-making Trust wide.

You would be responsible for all reporting using analytics and performance data provided by the workforce analytics teams to ensure the Trust meets its statutory and NHS obligations under Equality and Human Rights legislation, Care Quality Commission standards, the NHS Equality Delivery System 2, NHS People Plan and local health economy and regional initiatives for the Trust.

The Strategic Head of Equity and Inclusion supports theHealth Inclusion Manager to ensure that systems, policies and procedures are developed and reviewed regularly to support and reflect commitment to providing excellent care for its patients and to recognising the diversity of its patients, communities and staff.

You will provide specialist advice and guidance to senior leaders across the trust to drive and improve the strategic and operational standards required to achieve and to sustain an employer of choice status for the trust.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record(we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated goodby the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen'sand get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hubin Ilford; an Ageing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospitaland at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wageemployer.

Some of the positive changes we've made are captured in this film.

Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Across site

Rom Valley Way

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Across site

Rom Valley Way

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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