Main area: Culture and Inclusion
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (FROM CPD FUNDS)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Fixed term or secondment until 31st Oct 2025)
Job ref: 205-6625793
Site: Across both sites
Town: Stoke on Trent
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 31/10/2024 23:59
Job overview
At UHNM, our vision is that all staff and service users receive equitable care and support, regardless of their personal characteristics. We are dedicated to improving the experience of the people who work or visit our hospitals and departments.
This role will initially focus on identifying high impact clinical areas for immediate improvement, as well as inputting into the long-term strategy for culture and inclusion in the following areas:
* Physical Disability and Long Term Conditions
* Learning disability and learning needs
* Race, religion and culture
* Sexuality and gender identity
Thereafter the role will be to work with service users and staff to promote an enabling environment for all, ensuring equity in opportunity and access.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be responsible for the management and chairing of the Quality Impact Assessment panels, representing and progressing QIAs to ensure equity and equality. You will be a key resource and advisory both for the Trust and a representative of the interests of the NMAHP workforce to the regional forums.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM creates and encourages a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Areas/Tasks Communication & Relationships Skills
* Facilitate open communication, to allow expression of ideas and issues within the workforce and patient groups.
* Exchange verbal and written information with patients, staff and carers requiring tact and diplomacy.
* Work alongside recruitment to review hiring manager education, focusing on self-management of conscious and unconscious bias.
* Attend and be an active member of Directorate/Divisional meetings and working groups.
* Work with multiple agencies within the Trust to ensure the identification of key areas of focus and improvement.
* Ensure the patient voice is at the heart of all Trust decisions.
* Hold regular meetings with senior teams to provide an opportunity to escalate specific concerns and report actions.
* Demonstrate skills for assessing and interpreting data.
* Investigate and respond to incidents, complaints and other significant events.
* Demonstrate planning & organisational skills.
* Contribute to the principles of clinical governance ensuring that quality standards are set and monitored.
* Co-ordinate activities with other professional agencies.
* Ensure that staff within clinical areas have access to and are aware of recent national and local policies affecting care delivery.
* Demonstrate dexterity and accuracy required for data collection and use of equipment.
* Act in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors or HCPC.
* Develop programmes of education, development and training in conjunction with the Senior Nurse for Workforce Development and Education.
* Interpret and implement national policies and procedures relating to culture and inclusion.
* Develop new policies and standard operating procedures relevant to their sphere of working.
Person specification
Experience
* Range of experience across specialities.
* Project/research management.
* Experience of working towards betterment of culture and inclusion.
Qualifications
* Registered with NMC or HCPC.
* Educated to minimum degree level.
* Evidence of MSc study and/or research.
Important information about your application
* All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from.
* References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
* We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation.
* Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies.
* New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check.
At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles, therefore please apply without delay!
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Carol Lloyd-Bennett
Job title: Senior Nurse for Workforce and Education
Email address: carola.lloyd-bennett@uhnm.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01782 676490
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