Health Equity and Inclusion LeadNHS
Job summary
Are you a highly motivated, dynamic health care profession who is passionate about Health Equity and Inclusion in Palliative End of Life care? St Peters Hospice is looking for a compassionate, motivated and values-driven Health Equity and Inclusion Lead to help us improve equitable access, experience and outcomes to our hospice services for people from underserved communities and Health Inclusion groups across our area. This is an exciting new opportunity to lead and coordinate our health equity and inclusion work, supporting the hospice to better understand and respond to the needs of people who may experience barriers to accessing our care. We are looking for a registered healthcare professional with experience of direct patient care in health or social care, with an understanding of palliative and end of life care.
Main duties of the job
You will have experience working with underserved or marginalised communities and health inclusion groups, helping to address barriers to access and promote inclusive practice. Confident working independently, you will build effective relationships across organisations and use community insight and data to inform service improvement. You will be an excellent communicator, able to engage sensitively with diverse audiences, facilitate discussions, influence change, and produce clear reports and presentations. At St Peter's Hospice, our values of excellence, compassion, respect, passion and collaboration guide everything we do. This role offers an opportunity to make a meaningful difference by improving access to inclusive, responsive palliative and end of life care. If you are passionate about reducing health inequalities and strengthening community engagement, we would love to hear from you. Interview date: Friday 4 September Applicants must have a minimum of three years' recent clinical experience within an acute trust or community setting. Applications are welcomed from Registered Adult Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Paramedics. For an informal discussion, please contact Caroline Mundy, Head of Clinical Engagement.
Job description
To lead, coordinate and deliver St Peters Hospices (SPH) health equity and inclusion work under the supervision of the Head of Clinical Engagement. To improve equitable access, experience and outcomes of hospice care for Inclusion health groups and local underserved communities. To provide line management to the Community Engagement coordinator. The post holder will work across hospice clinical services and with external partners to identify barriers, co-produce solutions, support culturally competent and accessible care, and embed equity, diversity and inclusion into service development, workforce practice and community engagement. Lead the development and delivery of the hospices health equity and inclusion work in line with organisational strategy under the supervision of the Head of Clinical Engagement, with a focus on reducing inequities in access, experience and outcomes. Use internal and external data, feedback and community insight to map local health inequalities, identify unmet need, and prioritise action. Build trusted relationships with underserved communities, including but not limited to people experiencing homelessness, people with learning disabilities and autism, LGBTQ+ community, refugees and asylum seekers, minority ethnic communities, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, and people in prison or with experience of imprisonment. Work with communities and partners to co-produce practical solutions that improve access to and experience of hospice care. Support the development of culturally competent, trauma-informed and accessible approaches to care, information and bereavement support. Work across hospice services to identify and remove barriers to access and service delivery, considering protected characteristics, communication needs and neurodiversity. Support compliance with the Accessible Information Standard and relevant CQC autism and learning disability priorities, helping teams implement inclusive practice. Provide supportive line management, supervision and direction to the Hospice Community Engagement Coordinator, including work planning, support, oversight of activity, and undertake their IPR. Work closely with the Spiritual Care Lead, Learning and Development team, and Marketing and Communications team to strengthen community engagement, staff capability and inclusive communications. Develop, deliver and evaluate staff awareness sessions or micro-training as a subject matter expert in collaboration with the Clinical Education team to increase confidence in working with diverse communities. Contribute to service development, quality improvement and policy work so that equity, diversity and inclusion are embedded across the organisation. Monitor progress against agreed objectives, maintain clear records of activity and outcomes, and produce reports, case studies and presentations for internal and external audiences. Be willing to engage with SPH marketing and communication team as required, ensuring SPH is represented in a professional and compassionate manner. Represent the hospice in relevant partnerships acting as an ambassador for our work to networks and multi-agency forums, contributing to system-wide efforts to improve equitable access to palliative and end of life care. Maintain own professional registration. Seeks feedback from others about work to help identify own development needs. Keep up to date with all mandatory and statutory training, and apply learning to practice Understands what sustains own resilience and proactively invests in this. As required present at meetings, study days or external events optimising opportunities to communicate our hospice services and work. Follow hospice policies, procedures and risk assessments to ensure a safe working environment. Report incidents and near misses and suggest improvements where needed. Manages identified risk in the best way possible using risk assessments, including dynamic risk assessment in the moment. Works to deliver the organisations and team strategiesin collaboration with line manager and Head of Clinical Engagement. Demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and apply your learning to the work situations. Treat everyone with dignity and respect, actively foster a non-discriminatory approach. Challenge bias, prejudice, and intolerance if appropriate or bring it to the attention of their line manage. Contribute to funding, assurance, regulatory and business planning requirements by providing evidence of impact, risk and improvement. Work with our grants team to maximise opportunities to support our work. Work within professional, organisational and information governance requirements, maintaining confidentiality and acting in line with hospice values. NB This role will incur very occasional evening or weekend work at an event. This would be discussed and agreed prior to the event. TOIL would be agreed.
About us
Weve spent over 40 years helping people die in peace, and with dignity. Combining compassion with clinical expertise, we provide patients with the best possible care at the end of their lives. Were here for the people around our patients too those closest to them. Before, during and after a bereavement, we provide support thats remembered forever. We think its that unforgettable support that inspires people to give back to St Peters. To fundraise for us. Donate. Volunteer. Were not exaggerating when we say that we couldnt do what we do without our wonderful supporters. We really cant thank them enough. We want to help many more people to die well. And were doing this by teaching others. As a centre of educational excellence, we share our skills with other health professionals, helping the NHS and care homes to provide better end-of-life care. Were here for all, for free, forever. The Benefits If you join our clinical team, we offer NHS Agenda for Change benefits such as: NHS equivalent salaries Generous holiday entitlement and recognition for previous NHS service (up to 33 days for 10 years' service) Continuation in the NHS pension scheme for existing members Recognition of previous NHS service for sick pay