This role is for a Diversity Equality Inclusion (DEI) Compliance Partner and will be part of the Trust wide Inclusion Department.

As a DEI specialist the post holder will be working closely with the Associate Director of Inclusion to support University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust's (UHB) commitment to DEI that will shape and deliver the culture for our staff, patients, and local community.

The post holder will lead have an excellent knowledge of DEI legalisation contractual and non-contractual obligations.

The post holder will provide support across the Trust embedding our trust values and promoting a culture the celebrates and embraces difference amongst our colleagues, patients and visitors.

The post holder will be partnering with our people leaders, finance and leadership teams to promote and embedded an integrated DEI strategy.

The post holder will have a have a focus on DEI compliance across UHB.

Key Relationships

The post holder will be required to establish effective working relationships with a range of colleagues. This includes but is not exclusive to:

*Associate Director of Inclusion

*Associate Director of Employment Legal Services

*Chief People Officer

*Communications

*Director of Inclusion

*Deputy Chief People Officer

*Education and training team

*Freedom to Speak up Guardian

*Health Informatics

*Site or Clinical Divisional Group (CDG) Senior Leadership Team (SLT)

*Staff Networks

*Wider People Directorate

Main duties of the job

*This role is part of the Inclusion Team for the Trust

*The post holder will be a subject matter expert, providing leadership and direction ensuring the relevant teams have the right DEI skills and knowledge.

*The post holder will have highly effective collaboration skills that are enable influence colleagues at all levels of the Trust.

*The post holder will be able to use using critical thinking to balance data-driven insights against DEI trends to make positive and grounded decisions.

*The post holder will have the ability to display innovative thought-leadership.

*The role will have responsibility for developing and executing the strategic plan for advancing DEI across UHB

*The post holder will be partnering with our people leaders, finance and leadership teams to promote and embedded an integrated DEI strategy.

*The post holder will work with the Inclusion team and the Associate Director of Employment Legal Services as well as wider Trust to ensure that all legal, contractual and non-contractual requirements are fulfilled.

*The post holder will design innovative solutions to DEI including training, internal policies and procedures, data collection, attraction and retention.

*The post holder will drive DEI initiatives through influencing and building great relationships with colleagues.

For an informal chat about the role please contact:Dr Darren Ralph (Director of Inclusion)Darren.ralph@uhb.nhs.uk

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent professional qualification)
• Leadership/ management development
• Evidence of CPD

Desirable

• Specialist DEI degree/postgraduate qualification
• Legal Qualification
• CIPD Qualification

Experience

Essential

• Working with DEI within a medium or large organisation
• Experience of working effectively as a member of a team
• Experience of processing issues through to conclusion
• Experience of working supportively with colleagues
• Ability to train/develop others
• Experience of supporting the implementation of strategy
• Experience of sharing expertise
• Excellent communication and presenting skills
• Ability to effectively contract with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience of providing expert DEI advice to managers on a wide range of DEI issues
• Experience in improving colleagues experience
• Organisational skills
• Delivering programmes with clear measures of success
• Experience of supporting transformational change programmes
• Working with colleagues at all levels of the organisation
• Leading, designing, implementing and evaluating projects
• Good knowledge of DEI legislation

Desirable

• Experience of working in partnership with unions/staff side
• Experience of working in a team
• Experience of using workforce systems

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Flexible
• Willingness to travel between trust locations
• Self-Awareness and insight
• Self motivation

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

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