Job summary
This is an outstanding opportunity for an innovative individual with experience as a senior leader to join our forward-thinking team. With a strong track record in implementing equality programmes, you'll lead the delivery of our Equality, Diversity and Human Rights strategy.
We're the largest Acute Trust in the UK, so this is also a chance to make your mark on a different scale. As well as shaping our strategy, you'll work directly with our Trust board and committees on crucial Equality and Diversity issues, lead on key workstreams and develop the monitoring and reporting systems we need to make sure we're meeting our statutory obligations.
On top of that, you'll provide expert advice across D&I matters at the Trust and find creative ways to improve staff engagement, developing communications and initiatives that bring our ambitions to life.
It's about bringing everyone across MFT together to build a culture rooted in responsibility, accountability, performance and service improvement. In turn, your work will help us improve patient access, boost support for our workforce and drive inclusivity in our leadership. What's more, you'll be putting your career on an exciting trajectory.
Let us tell you more about what the job involves and why this could be your next and best career move if you have the right skills, experience, and attitude to meet the needs and demands of the role.
Main duties of the job
- Bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge in public policy, you'll develop effective programmes which drive change across MFT. Working with everyone from our nursing teams to informatics and our hospital leadership, you'll help us foster a truly inclusive culture.
- With excellent communication skills, you'll find creative ways to engage our staff with our equality message, in turn improving staff satisfaction and patient care.
- Using highly effective influencing skills, you'll challenge leaders and staff across the Trust where opinions may differ.
- You'll also develop innovative solutions to remove barriers to inclusion and improve our service accessibility.
- You'll ensure that we have the performance tracking systems in place (for example our quality and performance report) to deliver on our goals is essential.
- Responsible for coordinating the collection and use of patient and staff data, you'll hold teams to account for delivering high-quality data in the process.
- You'll provide effective leadership for our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Team. This includes overseeing recruitment, workflows, discipline and grievance handling, attendance management and performance management.
- Working with our Director of Strategy and Partnerships, you'll make sure we develop and deliver our community engagement strategy.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £1.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating the most exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We're proud to be one of the major academic research centres and education providers in England and Research and Innovation is the heart of all we do, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We're also excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable and tackling climate change.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Join us and you'll work with some of the best people in the NHS, thriving in a Trust united in its values, purpose and commitment to our patients and a drive for continual innovation and improvement.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Candidate Information Pack
To support this vacancy, we have developed a bespoke Candidate Information Pack which provides specific information about the role and the Assessment and Selection Process. To request a copy of this pack, please contact Talent Attraction & Senior Acquisition Service Manager, Sinad Gamble via email Sinead.gamble@mft.nhs.uk
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Candidate Information Pack
To support this vacancy, we have developed a bespoke Candidate Information Pack which provides specific information about the role and the Assessment and Selection Process. To request a copy of this pack, please contact Talent Attraction & Senior Acquisition Service Manager, Sinad Gamble via email Sinead.gamble@mft.nhs.uk
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Master's Degree /post graduate qualification or equivalent experience.
- Portfolio of professional development activity undertaken in relevant areas. This could include training courses, external events, key skills development.
Experience
Essential
- Produce high quality strategies, policies, reports and related communication.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of reporting and working with complex data.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of Public Sector policy, particularly related to Equality and Human Rights.
- Extensive experience of leading the planning and implementation of Equality programmes and specific interventions across organisational boundaries.
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of collaborative working with a range of stakeholders and relationship management.
- A thorough understanding and practical experience of delivering staff or patient /service users engagement initiatives.
Experience
Essential
- An understanding of how to work with communities on community engagement and co-production initiatives, and experience of involving service users, customers, or similar groups in service or business planning and in responding to EDI issues.
- Senior level management experience in a complex organisation in the NHS, public sector, private sector, or voluntary and community sector, including experience of effectively managing and developing senior management teams to maximise performance.
Experience
Essential
- Experience at a senior management or professional level, with staff management and financial/budgetary responsibilities, within a healthcare or similar complex organisation.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of presenting to and facilitating small and large diverse groups at all levels.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of embedding EDI evidence based best practice, process and policies within everyday business and specific projects.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of leading and delivering demonstrable service improvement and change projects across a complex organisation.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Master's Degree /post graduate qualification or equivalent experience.
- Portfolio of professional development activity undertaken in relevant areas. This could include training courses, external events, key skills development.
Experience
Essential
- Produce high quality strategies, policies, reports and related communication.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of reporting and working with complex data.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of Public Sector policy, particularly related to Equality and Human Rights.
- Extensive experience of leading the planning and implementation of Equality programmes and specific interventions across organisational boundaries.
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of collaborative working with a range of stakeholders and relationship management.
- A thorough understanding and practical experience of delivering staff or patient /service users engagement initiatives.
Experience
Essential
- An understanding of how to work with communities on community engagement and co-production initiatives, and experience of involving service users, customers, or similar groups in service or business planning and in responding to EDI issues.
- Senior level management experience in a complex organisation in the NHS, public sector, private sector, or voluntary and community sector, including experience of effectively managing and developing senior management teams to maximise performance.
Experience
Essential
- Experience at a senior management or professional level, with staff management and financial/budgetary responsibilities, within a healthcare or similar complex organisation.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of presenting to and facilitating small and large diverse groups at all levels.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of embedding EDI evidence based best practice, process and policies within everyday business and specific projects.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of leading and delivering demonstrable service improvement and change projects across a complex organisation.
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
