Inequalities Change Manager

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

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Job summary

37.5 Hours Per week

An exciting permanent opportunity has arisen to join the Strategy, Inclusion and Change Directorate at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SWYPFT) to lead a programme of work containing multiple projects to deliver the Trust Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy work as part of delivering the strategic priorities of the Trust and helping everyone reach their potential and live well in their community.

The successful candidate will be an integral member of the strategy inclusion and change directorate, supporting the Assistant Director of Strategy, Equality and Inclusion in maintaining an overview of the inequalities programme and strategy, equality and inclusion portfolio.

The post-holder will act as a central specialist resource for inequalities, supporting the achievement of transformation and change projects across the whole organisation and lead the development of change management cases that support EMT decision making and achievement of the EDI strategy.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work flexibly whilst based at Trust headquarters on the Fieldhead Hospital site in Wakefield.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for managing EDI and inequality programmes, supporting the Trust to achieve strategic objectives, you will need to be able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines to short time scales whilst monitoring and delivering on key targets and changing hearts and minds.

Activities include programme delivery and governance to help create the desired culture shift and behaviour change in the organisation around inequalities. This includes undertaking detailed analytical and quality assurance work while maintaining visibility and providing clear leadership and direction to a number of project teams, guiding them to anticipate and resolve issues as they arise and managing a budget for inequalities covering both pay and non pay items.

The successful candidate will need to establish and maintain strong trusting relationships with key external and internal stakeholders including Directors, Clinical Leads, service users and carers and be able to represent the organisation at external multi-agency programmes across the Trust footprint at local and regional ICB level.

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About us

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Date posted

10 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9378-QA01319

Job locations

Field Head Hospital

Ouchthorpe Lane

Wakefield

WF1 3SP

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Inequalities Change Manager will lead work streams containing multiple projects to deliver the Trust Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy (hereafter called the strategy) on behalf of Executive Sponsors. In addition they will act as a central specialist resource for inequalities, supporting the achievement of transformation and change projects across the whole organisation.

The post-holder will provide day to day leadership, change and programme management of multiple work streams identified within the strategy directly on behalf of Lead Directors. They will ensure that the multiple projects within their work streams are delivered effectively and that they come together in a coherent whole to support delivery of the Trusts mission and in line with our values. This includes, providing clarity/expertise, linking with operations and with external partners and change programmes; identifying and addressing any issues with the progress of individual projects and acting as a broker to facilitate solutions to obstacles between stakeholders.

One of the key challenges in this role is the need to manage multiple priorities and deadlines to short time scales whilst monitoring and delivering on key targets and changing hearts and minds This includes undertaking detailed analytical and quality assurance work while maintaining visibility and providing clear direction to a number of project teams, guiding them to anticipate and resolve issues as they arise.

EDI and health inequalities programmes

Manage the day to day delivery of Work Streams within the strategy on behalf of lead directors. Establish and maintain strong trusting relationships with key stakeholders including very senior colleagues including Directors, Deputy Directors and Clinical Leads. Effectively navigate uncertainty and ambiguity, while keeping the overall objective in mind. Support the Assistant Director of Strategy, Equality and Inclusion in maintaining an overview of the whole programme, ensuring dependencies are managed

Key result areas will include;

Effective relationships with EMT, particularly Executive Sponsors for relevant work streams, operational directors and deputy directors, clinical leads and project managers,

Delivery of milestones and targets within all projects within the post holders portfolio and evidence of impact of the work on key indicators

Ensuring good governance and clear assurance functions are embedded in the organisation and delivery of the strategy

Programme Delivery and Governance will include;

Implementation and operation of change management/ project and programme management across the Work Streams and key themes of the strategy to help create the desired culture shift and behaviour change in the organisation around inequalities

Dissemination, training, coaching to colleagues within the workstreams, providing specialist input on inequalities to increase knowledge and capability around this agenda

Operation of programme governance, reporting and decision making arrangements.

Operation of programme-wide and Trust-wide systems for engagement and the management of risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.

Provision of expert coaching, guidance and support for Sponsors/ Lead Directors, Clinical Leads, and Project Managers around inequality

Management of project managers will include;

Leading the establishment of appropriate project management resources, planning and chairing of meetings

Line management of seconded project managers, including objective setting/ appraisal, 1:1s, mandatory training, expenses, annual leave, sickness absence management etc

Ensuring that project managers have clear guidance and support in the operation of change and programme/project management, including scoping, planning, reporting and risk management

Leading the resolution of issues arising in projects that exceed the project managers authority to act.

Lead and coordinate the activity of groups of staff and managers in delivery of programme objectives, operating through a robust matrix management approach.

Manage a budget.

Develop, agree, and manage a budget for inequalities covering both pay and non pay items.

Responsible for requisitions and approvals on Oracle for all project expenditure within the work stream budget.

Responsible for reviewing budget reports and nominal roll and resolving any issues arising

Responsible for monitoring timesheets, deliverables and invoices of external consultants engaged to support transformation projects. Ensuring value is maximised and expenditure is controlled within agreed limits.

Responsible for any remedial action required to ensure budgets are not overspent.

Ensuring at all times that money is spent wisely in line with organisational policies and procedures to best effect to meet organisational objectives.

Partnerships and External Transformation Programmes

Represent EDI, inequalities and the Trust in external multi-agency programmes to ensure;

Alignment of the Programme with commissioning intentions, both integrated care systems (ICS), work within each of our four places and the external environment

The Trust is able to influence the development of local health economy plans in pursuit of its business and equality objectives.

The Trust identifies and acts upon opportunities and threats to delivery of the EDI strategy

Provide timely accurate and concise reports, forecasts and intelligence back to EMT and care group leadership teams following engagement with external partnerships and programmes.

Take responsibility for making appropriate Directors aware of issues arising from the post holders work on external partnership activities and maintaining ownership of such issues until Directors are able to delegate the resulting actions.

This will require high level political awareness and sensitive communication of partners intentions and likely positions into the organisation. For example, commissioning intentions, and partner agencies/ competitors intentions.

Developing EDI and inequalities

Lead the development of change management cases that support EMT decision making and achievement of the strategy .

Leadership of change management case development includes; project management including managing project teams and ensuring engagement It will also include presenting complex and sensitive information to a wide range of audiences including Executive Management Team members, care group senior leaders, larger groups such as operational teams, and external audiences such as commissioners partners and the ICS. In view of the transformational nature of the subject matter the content is likely to be contentious.

Taking a leadership role in aligning the EDI and inequalities work with other key strands of work to maximise connections and seize opportunities. Using a range of opportunities to influence others to develop and deliver the strategy to the benefit of the communities we serve

Use the networks and relationships both inside and external to the Trust to identify opportunities for the development and prioritisation of work to improve EDI for the organisation. This includes cases for dis-investment as well as investment, and as such will be highly sensitive and controversial. Such decisions will require the post holder to undertake in-depth analysis, and enter into skilful communication and negotiation with care group Directors, external partners and Deputy Directors.

On behalf of the Assistant Director of Strategy & Inclusion, lead the deployment of the Trusts inequalities process across the whole Trust. This will include presentation, negotiation and facilitation with Estates colleagues, care group senior teams and with service line leadership teams. The post holder will ensure timely, accurate and realistic inputs to EDI from all service lines and care groups

Co-ordinate the input of other partners around inequalities. Ensure a holistic and well informed view is formed and the necessary challenging conversations and investigations are undertaken to support a robust plan. This will require facilitation of challenging conversations, e.g. service viability. Therefore thorough preparation is essential; including ensuring all necessary support from senior colleagues is in place, and analysis of complex data is undertaken and understood.

For further information please see Job Description and Person Specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

EDI and health inequalities programmes

Key result areas will include;

Effective relationships with EMT, particularly Executive Sponsors for relevant work streams, operational directors and deputy directors, clinical leads and project managers,

Delivery of milestones and targets within all projects within the post holders portfolio and evidence of impact of the work on key indicators

Ensuring good governance and clear assurance functions are embedded in the organisation and delivery of the strategy

Programme Delivery and Governance will include;

Dissemination, training, coaching to colleagues within the workstreams, providing specialist input on inequalities to increase knowledge and capability around this agenda

Operation of programme governance, reporting and decision making arrangements.

Operation of programme-wide and Trust-wide systems for engagement and the management of risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.

Provision of expert coaching, guidance and support for Sponsors/ Lead Directors, Clinical Leads, and Project Managers around inequality

Management of project managers will include;

Leading the establishment of appropriate project management resources, planning and chairing of meetings

Line management of seconded project managers, including objective setting/ appraisal, 1:1s, mandatory training, expenses, annual leave, sickness absence management etc

Ensuring that project managers have clear guidance and support in the operation of change and programme/project management, including scoping, planning, reporting and risk management

Leading the resolution of issues arising in projects that exceed the project managers authority to act.

Lead and coordinate the activity of groups of staff and managers in delivery of programme objectives, operating through a robust matrix management approach.

Manage a budget.

Develop, agree, and manage a budget for inequalities covering both pay and non pay items.

Responsible for requisitions and approvals on Oracle for all project expenditure within the work stream budget.

Responsible for reviewing budget reports and nominal roll and resolving any issues arising

Responsible for any remedial action required to ensure budgets are not overspent.

Ensuring at all times that money is spent wisely in line with organisational policies and procedures to best effect to meet organisational objectives.

Partnerships and External Transformation Programmes

Represent EDI, inequalities and the Trust in external multi-agency programmes to ensure;

Alignment of the Programme with commissioning intentions, both integrated care systems (ICS), work within each of our four places and the external environment

The Trust is able to influence the development of local health economy plans in pursuit of its business and equality objectives.

The Trust identifies and acts upon opportunities and threats to delivery of the EDI strategy

Provide timely accurate and concise reports, forecasts and intelligence back to EMT and care group leadership teams following engagement with external partnerships and programmes.

Developing EDI and inequalities

Lead the development of change management cases that support EMT decision making and achievement of the strategy .

For further information please see Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Personal Attributes

Essential

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to maintain effective communication where there is challenge to own and organisational perspective.
Is able to translate large amounts of complicated data from multiple sources into clear and effective messages to lead communication with diverse audiences.
Is able to deliver messages effectively to varied audiences to maximise engagement with the subject matter whether the audience is a service user or the trust board.
Is able to work on own initiative and organise own workload and that of others with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.
Is able to work in and across a range of teams to foster and support team goals whilst maintaining drive to deliver personal objectives and agreed targets.
Tolerates ambiguity and responds flexibly to change.
Able to build supportive and productive high-trust relationships, facilitating collaborative working across professional and organisational boundaries.
Is tenacious in pursuit of agreed goals.
Exhibits resilience in response to challenge and manages frustrations drawing energy from setbacks to maintain progress.

Training

Essential

Extensive knowledge of specialist areas within equality, diversity, inclusion and health inequalities acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
Is able to evidence continued professional development.
Has a commitment to development of self and others.

Experience

Essential

Of successfully delivering transformation and change projects and programmes as a project or programme manager (prefer both) within a complex statutory organisation.
Of successfully engaging, leading and managing teams of people in pursuit of excellence in transforming service delivery.
Of developing and implementing complex interrelated plans within an organisation; able to acknowledge and work with ambiguity framing and shaping those plans in order to provide flexibility to meet changing priorities.
Of repeated and continued success in managing effective partnership working, balancing the competing needs of a range of internal and external stakeholders across organisational boundaries
Of success in involving stakeholders including service users and carers in the delivery of complex time critical programmes of work.
Providing programme management support and leadership in pursuit of the successful delivery of significant change programmes to diverse groups of people with competing interests.
Of success in using a range of programme and project management tools and techniques in delivering complex transformational changes across organisations.
Has successfully managed responsibilities within tight governance frameworks and is able to demonstrate effective delivery of milestones and targets.
Of planning and delivering complex multi-part programmes, projects and services on time, in budget and to agreed quality standards.
Of using benefits realisation systems and approaches qualitative and financial supporting the implementation of unified tracking systems.
Managing budgets for pay and non pay, especially non-recurrent funds.
Writing complex documents and plans and undertaking analysis to support change management cases.
Supporting teams to develop change management plans.
Achievement of benefits through the delivery of transformational change projects.

Desirable

Management of dependencies across projects, work streams and programmes.
Engagement and communications with staff throughout significant changes.
Procurement and Management of consultancy/ other external support contracts.
Supporting the development of project management skills in non-project managers.

Physical Attributes

Essential

Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
Ability to travel across the Trust as appropriate to the role.

Special Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Has a thorough understanding of the modern NHS and the context in which Foundation Trusts operate and a clear understanding of how these challenges impact on our organisation and are translated into effect.
Ability to manage multiple pieces of work across different parts of the organisation where projects are at varying stages of development and complexity.
Familiarity with the software packages relevant to the role.

Desirable

Expert in the use of Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, SharePoint. Familiarity with the range of software packages available to support programme management.
Experience of delivering a Portfolio Management approach Trust wide alignment to strategy.

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Masters level in a relevant subject or with a demonstrably equivalent level of experience.

Desirable

MSP Practitioner / Advanced Practitioner or equivalent.

Person Specification

Personal Attributes

Essential

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to maintain effective communication where there is challenge to own and organisational perspective.
Is able to translate large amounts of complicated data from multiple sources into clear and effective messages to lead communication with diverse audiences.
Is able to deliver messages effectively to varied audiences to maximise engagement with the subject matter whether the audience is a service user or the trust board.
Is able to work on own initiative and organise own workload and that of others with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.
Is able to work in and across a range of teams to foster and support team goals whilst maintaining drive to deliver personal objectives and agreed targets.
Tolerates ambiguity and responds flexibly to change.
Able to build supportive and productive high-trust relationships, facilitating collaborative working across professional and organisational boundaries.
Is tenacious in pursuit of agreed goals.
Exhibits resilience in response to challenge and manages frustrations drawing energy from setbacks to maintain progress.

Training

Essential

Extensive knowledge of specialist areas within equality, diversity, inclusion and health inequalities acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
Is able to evidence continued professional development.
Has a commitment to development of self and others.

Experience

Essential

Of successfully delivering transformation and change projects and programmes as a project or programme manager (prefer both) within a complex statutory organisation.
Of successfully engaging, leading and managing teams of people in pursuit of excellence in transforming service delivery.
Of developing and implementing complex interrelated plans within an organisation; able to acknowledge and work with ambiguity framing and shaping those plans in order to provide flexibility to meet changing priorities.
Of repeated and continued success in managing effective partnership working, balancing the competing needs of a range of internal and external stakeholders across organisational boundaries
Of success in involving stakeholders including service users and carers in the delivery of complex time critical programmes of work.
Providing programme management support and leadership in pursuit of the successful delivery of significant change programmes to diverse groups of people with competing interests.
Of success in using a range of programme and project management tools and techniques in delivering complex transformational changes across organisations.
Has successfully managed responsibilities within tight governance frameworks and is able to demonstrate effective delivery of milestones and targets.
Of planning and delivering complex multi-part programmes, projects and services on time, in budget and to agreed quality standards.
Of using benefits realisation systems and approaches qualitative and financial supporting the implementation of unified tracking systems.
Managing budgets for pay and non pay, especially non-recurrent funds.
Writing complex documents and plans and undertaking analysis to support change management cases.
Supporting teams to develop change management plans.
Achievement of benefits through the delivery of transformational change projects.

Desirable

Management of dependencies across projects, work streams and programmes.
Engagement and communications with staff throughout significant changes.
Procurement and Management of consultancy/ other external support contracts.
Supporting the development of project management skills in non-project managers.

Physical Attributes

Essential

Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
Ability to travel across the Trust as appropriate to the role.

Special Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Has a thorough understanding of the modern NHS and the context in which Foundation Trusts operate and a clear understanding of how these challenges impact on our organisation and are translated into effect.
Ability to manage multiple pieces of work across different parts of the organisation where projects are at varying stages of development and complexity.
Familiarity with the software packages relevant to the role.

Desirable

Expert in the use of Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, SharePoint. Familiarity with the range of software packages available to support programme management.
Experience of delivering a Portfolio Management approach Trust wide alignment to strategy.

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Masters level in a relevant subject or with a demonstrably equivalent level of experience.

Desirable

MSP Practitioner / Advanced Practitioner or equivalent.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.