Reducing Health Inequalities Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

The three central aims of the Reducing Inequalities Alliance (RIA) will be to work with services, communities, and civic institutions to reduce inequalities. Through this it will provide added value to partners by:

1. Setting a strategic vision for reducing inequalities

2. Supporting best practice to reduce inequalities

3. Build capacity around leadership

4. Facilitate and share learning

This postholder will work closely with the Associate Director for RIA and its core team mainly in support of these objectives. They will work closely with partners at a community level to share learning from local and international research on measures to reduce inequalities and facilitate discussion to develop strong local inequalities plans. This role will suit a short-term contract or secondment opportunity for 12 months from the agreed start date (this is a current vacancy so start date is as soon as available).

Specifically, the post holder will contribute to the following core programmes of the RIA:

• Co-produce and promote the Bradford and Craven framework for reducing inequalities.

• Lead and support forums with local community partnerships and primary care networks to better understand inequalities in health and care delivery.

• Co-create with community partnerships the development of outcomes and measures of partnership success in closing inequalities (and tools to support prioritisation).

• Support the collection, analysis and presentation of community based narratives and case studies that describe inequalities, and evidence based measures to reduce them.

• Develop and promote common tools for working with community partnerships, transformation programmes and strategic board in assessing and assuring their work and

priorities to reduce inequalities.

In addition, the postholder will be required to:

▪ work with the PCNs, Community Partnerships and GP Practices to support a population health management approach to delivering transformational service change and improvement across the whole care spectrum

▪ line manage 2 X Band 7 Reducing Inequalities Managers.

▪ Support the clinical and managerial leadership of the Bradford and Craven Health and Care Partnership (formerly CCG).

▪ Support the Bradford and Craven Health and Care Partnership’s approaches to strategic and annual planning, clinical engagement to inform and refine the strategic plans and approach to working with partners and key stakeholders to formulate Bradford and Craven Health and Care Partnership s strategies.

▪ Provide Bradford and Craven Health and Care Partnership with advice during the development, commissioning, procurement, contracting and performance management of services.

▪ Provide leadership to the Bradford and Craven Health and Care Partnership’s strategic approach to the reduction of inequalities.

▪ Work with colleagues to improve quality and outcomes across whole pathways (self-care, prevention, health promotion, care treatment and rehabilitation) and the full range of service providers; (primary, secondary, community, social care, voluntary and independent sectors) and implement care pathways that are informed by patients and shaped by the principle of improving the patient experience.

▪ Develop evidence-based solutions to the design of care delivery, prevention, and early intervention programmes (developing self-care strategies, models, pathways, and implementation plans); and

▪ Set the direction, establish, and manage projects, co-ordinate activity and ensure appropriate evaluation mechanisms are in place so outcomes can be identified and achieved.

The post holder will also work with the Planning, Performance and Business Intelligence Team in the use of a Population Health Management and community data to deliver transformational service change and support community health and well-being.

Specifically, the post holder will:

• Support the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative information to inform reducing inequalities in communities.

• Share the results of analysis in accessible and relevant formats.

• Identify and share good practice.

• Support programmed leads in ensuring that a focus on reducing inequalities is embedded in our local place’s priorities and programmes of work.

• Take a lead for identified areas where agreed.

Person Specification

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Demonstrable commitment to and focus on reducing inequalities, service quality, and promotes high standards to consistently improve population and patient outcomes
• Actively develops themselves and others
• Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a relevant specialist area
• Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this

Desirable

• Health sciences or public health masters qualification

Skills & Behaviours

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly developed IT and data analytical skills.
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
• Ability to engage, influence and motivate others, from a range of organisations
• Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
• Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation
• Ability to identify, develop, nurture and promote innovative approaches to service development

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrate senior management experience, including delivering through others outside of own management control
• Experience of strategic thinking and planning and working across different care and partnership systems
• Significant experience of leading and managing multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience of designing and/or managing strategies and programmes that reduce health or socio-economic inequalities
• Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system outcomes
• A track record of leadership, performance improvement and organisational change

Desirable

• Senior level experience of establishing multi-agency strategies with partners covering health, local government, VCS and community partners.
• Senior level experience of leading public health programmes of work.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Address

Nhs Bradford District C C G

1 Bolton Road

Bradford

West Yorkshire

BD1 4AS

Employer's website

http://www.westyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)