Job summary
Expected Shortlisting Date: 24/02/2025
Planned Interview Date: 06/03/2025
Do you want to have a positive and significant influence on shaping the culture of a health and care system; enabling vision and ambition to be realised through working with senior leaders on delivering against our strategic ambitions to make a difference to colleagues and the population of West Yorkshire? Are you passionate about creating a culture of belonging where people can be themselves and fulfil their potential, enabling our system to gain from the innovation and creativity that comes from diverse thinking and understanding the lived experiences of our people?
If yes, then read on!
Working as part of a compassionate, inclusive and innovative system and leadership development team as part of the People Directorate of NHS West Yorkshire ICB, you will lead the design, delivery and evaluation of the establishment of an infrastructure to develop anti-racist leadership practice across WY health and care partnership. You will also lead and be part of the delivery team for the well-established and award-winning fellowship programme to develop diverse leaders.
Main duties of the job
As Head of Anti-Racist System and Leadership Development at NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), you will work across the breadth of West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership on a highly challenging and complex agenda to directly influence culture change; directly contributing towards achieving one of our 10 big strategic ambitions to increase the diversity of our leadership and tackle health inequalities in West Yorkshire. You will join a small, supportive and creative team committed to enabling the achievement of our exciting partnership ambitions. You will be able to bring your highly developed knowledge of anti-racism and significant expertise and experience in leading and influencing system-wide culture change to enable the achievement of our West Yorkshire ambitions.
The post holder will report to and deputise for the Associate Director of System and Leadership Development, providing line management for team colleagues and will provide expert consultancy and direct facilitation for the development, delivery and continual evaluation and improvement of West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership's approach to achieving diverse leadership.
A strong track record of leading delivery across multiple contentious, large scale priorities, in a complex adaptive context, working collaboratively with and influencing senior system leaders is a must.
About us
NHS West Yorkshire ICB works to improve population health and reduce inequalities, addressing diverse community needs. As part of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, we collaborate with local councils, health providers and community organisations.
We value diversity as a strength that enhances creativity and patient outcomes. Committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace, we prioritise wellbeing and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of their protected characteristics.
We support Carers with a Carer friendly environment and a working Carer passport. As a Mindful Employer, we support employees and applicants with mental health conditions. As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee interviews for suitable applicants meeting the essential criteria. Please let us know of any required adjustments.
Note: This advert may close early due to high application volume, or be paused or withdrawn in line with our policies if an applicant at risk or on pay protection applies.
Date posted: 13 February 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8c
Salary: £74,290 to £85,601 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: D9475-ICB-619B
Job responsibilities
1. Work across the whole partnership with system leaders and key stakeholders from health and care organisations to identify and develop ambitions for developing an actively anti-racist culture of inclusion where diversity is seen as a strength, design and deliver interventions and developments to meet this ambition.
2. Develop and implement qualitative and quantitative measures to determine performance against the strategy. Report progress against the strategy through personal representation at senior management forums and by written reports, tailoring delivery to meet the needs of the audience.
3. Evaluate, interpret and locally implement national and international best practice.
4. Research, share and be informed by best practice, nationally and internationally.
5. Ensure that best practice is developed and delivered across the system. Challenge ways of working and persuade, motivate and influence other senior managers to realign their practice where necessary.
Fellowship
1. Develop and deliver a senior leadership programme as part of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Fellowship programme for increasing the diversity in leadership.
2. This will require the use of OD methodology to co-design the programme with potential participants, plan the delivery of the programme including design of taught components, sourcing external training providers and acting as account manager with suppliers, delivery and facilitation of educational modules, provision of pastoral support for senior leader participants, publicizing the programme at system wide groups, undertaking talent coaching with participants, sourcing placements across the system and liaising with host organisations to ensure required statements of commitment are fulfilled and putting in place mitigations for improvement where required.
3. Lead the ongoing evaluation, learning and iteration of the senior leadership programme.
Anti-racist leadership development
1. Lead the co-production and delivery of an infrastructure for building anti-racist leadership practice across West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, specifically including the following:
2. Co-produce and deliver a coalition leadership development programme for leaders racialised as white from WYHCP.
3. Embed and chair a transformational co-production group that has oversight of the anti-racist leadership practice infrastructure.
4. Lead the delivery and embedding of building belonging learning sessions, covering topics including white ideology and active bystanding with relevant leadership groups.
5. Lead the creation of embedding of a peer development network for leaders racialised as white in WYHCP.
6. Lead the creation and embedding of a community of practice for colleagues from diverse backgrounds to share learning on how to meaningfully enact anti-racist leadership practice.
7. Lead the creation of the infrastructure to ensure connectivity between the different elements of anti-racist leadership practice and the fellowship programme to maximise effectiveness of the inter-dependencies.
The post-holder will be a values-based leader, a role model for what we are trying to achieve with a passion for inclusion and social justice; demonstrating commitment to co-design and actively seeking diverse perspectives. Highly specialised knowledge and understanding of current thinking and practice of anti-racism, white ideology and associated systemic cultural challenges that is continually developed through research, evaluation and horizon scanning with training or experience across a number of key areas relating to System and Leadership development e.g. System Thinking, System Leadership, OD, Leadership Development is core for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
* Masters in relevant subject related to system and leadership development
* Psychometric profiling
Experience Essential
* Senior level experience across specialist areas of system and leadership development including System Thinking, System Leadership, OD, Leadership Development
* Experience in the use of a coaching approach
Skills & behaviours Essential
* Able to use coaching and facilitation skills to enable inclusive and transformative dialogue to aid development and manage conflict.
* Able to communicate with tact and sensitivity where appropriate
* Networking skills for developing working relationships and alliances between individuals, teams and organisations
* Providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive or contentious information and support delivery of such information to a wide range of differing groups at all levels
* Ability to assimilate detailed information quickly
* Planning and organising skills; able to plan complex and conflicting cross system activities and demands, working to tight and often changing timescales and priorities
* Ability to think strategically and translate vision and ambition into operational plans; moving between details and the bigger picture, assimilating and sense-making of complex, abstract and dynamic information
* Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
Additional Requirements Essential
* Highly specialised knowledge and understanding of current thinking and practice of anti-racism, white ideology and associated systemic cultural challenges that is continually developed through research.
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.
Employer details
Employer name: NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
Address: White Rose House, West Parade, Wakefield, WF1 1LT
Employer's website: http://www.westyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk
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