Main area: National Strategic Clinical Network for Women’s Health
Grade Pay: will be commensurate with substantive post
Contract: 12 months (Fixed term)
Hours: Part time - 7.5 hours per week
Job ref: 028-MD002-0125
Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: 1st Floor River House, Gwaelod- y- Garth, Cardiff
Salary: Salary is dependent on experience
Closing: 09/02/2025 23:59
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champion - Women's Health Network
Welcome to the NHS Wales Executive, a new national support function, operational from 1 April 2023.
Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. To support our all Wales service, we particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Job Overview
The Strategic Clinical Network for Women's Health is seeking an enthusiastic health professional to support the Clinical Lead, ensuring the needs of the diverse women of Wales have a voice in the development of the Women's Health Plan for Wales and the Women's Health Network.
There are 1.6 million women and girls living in Wales, making up 50.7% of the population. Although women on average live longer than men, evidence has shown that those extra years are more likely to be lived in poor health. This inequality is increased when we consider deprivation, with women from ethnically diverse backgrounds more likely to live in an area of deprivation.
The Strategic Clinical Network for Women's Health is one of 11 Networks within the NHS Executive for Wales. The main purpose of the Clinical Networks is to enhance the quality and safety of care, leading to improved and more equitable outcomes, better access, and enhanced patient experience. Additionally, it aims to reduce variation and improve population health through strong leadership, enabling, supporting, and directing NHS Wales to transform clinical services by national priorities and care standards.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Work with colleagues, both clinical and managerial, to build an inclusive National Strategic Clinical Network.
2. Provide clinical guidance supporting the Clinical within the network for a visible data to knowledge quality outcomes framework to drive planning and improvement.
3. Provide inclusive leadership and work with colleagues to drive improvement in clinical outcomes within services in the scope of the network.
4. Together with the Network Manager and Clinical Lead, ensure a focus on equitable and inclusive clinical quality, providing clinical oversight to ensure they support quality management systems consistent with the NCF.
5. Influence the planning of inclusive services in line with the expectations set out in the NCF.
6. Challenge unwarranted clinical and organisational variation at national, regional, health board, and clinical team level together with the Clinical Lead.
7. Contribute strategically to improving the quality and value of healthcare services for women of diverse backgrounds and inclusive of all communities.
8. Lead, support and promote the dissemination and implementation of EDI best practice and standards across Wales.
9. Support health service bodies to develop robust EDI collaborations to plan fragile services on a sustainable basis.
Working for Our Organisation
Open to medical or Agenda for Change applicants. We’d expect the successful candidate to agree to secondment with the current employer and will be paid on their current Terms and Conditions and grade of their substantive post.
The NHS Executive works in partnership for and on behalf of the Welsh Government, in and with the NHS in Wales and is hosted by Public Health Wales.
Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Within the new NHS Wales Executive, newly configured National Strategic Clinical Networks are a key component of the National Clinical Framework (NCF) model. National Strategic Clinical Networks perform the central role of the ‘knowledge-to-practice’ element in the Learning Health and Care System laid out in the National Clinical Framework. Their position within the Executive enables them to play a role in fulfilling the expectations set out in the Executive’s Mandate and Remit Letter.
National Strategic Clinical Networks replace both the former national clinical networks and major conditions implementation groups that transitioned into the Executive. They also cover some areas that have never benefited from networks or implementation groups.
This model of delivery for clinical services is one of the most important facets of health service delivery and by bringing clinical communities together, it has been shown that it is possible to develop national consensus on the transformation of specific services. By working in this way, important challenges are identified, the best solutions are developed and the whole system, local and national, pulls in the same direction and shares in the benefits. This approach results in large scale, strategic changes rather than isolated reforms that fail to spread and lead to ever greater unwarranted variation in care.
The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Champion will need to be credible, leading a complex range of issues across professions. They do not need to be subject matter experts but will need to demonstrate they have experience of leading system and organisational/service change. Working in close partnership with the Clinical Lead, they will need to communicate clearly and effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders ranging from very senior government officials to NHS Wales leadership community, NHS staff, and wider stakeholders including third sector organisations.
The Discovery Report, published in 2022, presents the state of the nation for women's health in Wales, combining an evidence review of women's health with the voices of women and girls in Wales. Women interviewed for the report spoke of experiencing racism both from within and outside the NHS and felt that they were often 'not listened to' by healthcare professionals, an unconscious bias further exacerbated by age and race. (Ethnically diverse women are noticeably underrepresented in executive and senior leadership roles in the NHS).
The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champion will work as part of the Strategic Clinical Network for Women's Health, alongside Dr Helen Munro - Clinical Lead, and liaise with colleagues in NHS Wales and Public Health Wales to listen to the voices of women and improve gender health across the NHS.
The successful candidate will work for 0.2 FTE pw, over the next year, integrated into the Women's Health Network to improve the equitable and inclusive health services for women in Wales. It is important that the successful candidate already works within women's health in Wales, has connections to organisations and groups to champion EDI discussions and is available to start immediately.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Full appropriate professional registration.
* An in-depth knowledge and understanding of appropriate national guidance and best practice.
* Good understanding of the principles of clinical governance.
* High level of understanding of Value Based Health/Prudent Healthcare principles.
* Postgraduate qualification in medical/clinical education.
Experience
* Currently working as a senior clinician in a discipline relevant to the scope of the network – women’s health.
* Demonstrable experience of leading a service and effecting change.
* Ability to chair high level, multi-professional meetings.
* Leading and delivering significant clinical changes.
* Working with key stakeholders e.g., NHS Wales, Welsh Government.
* Presenting at national and international conferences.
* Research experience.
* Experience as a clinical tutor or lecturer at postgraduate level.
Skills and Attributes
* Sound judgment and decision-making.
* Proven ability to manage complex work and prioritise effectively.
* Evidence of strong influencing, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
* Ability to influence and shape thinking, particularly where there is uncertainty or a lack of clarity.
* Ability to develop effective working relationships on an individual and multi-professional basis.
* Proven ability to listen, empower, lead by example, and lead through change, working as part of a multi-professional team.
* Excellent communication and organisational skills.
* Self-reflective, self-aware, and able to accept feedback.
* Able to question constructively and problem solve.
* Able to work under pressure and to remain professional and expected behaviour standards despite challenging circumstances.
* Respect confidentiality.
* Flexible approach to meet the needs of the service.
* Ability to deal with the media.
Other
* Willingness to travel between sites or to meetings/events across Wales.
* Up to date and fit to practice safely and aware of own training needs.
* Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards.
NHS Wales Executive reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.
Priority is given to staff awaiting redeployment. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.
If you have a disability and have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application process, please contact [emailprotected]
If you are successful and shortlisted for an interview you will be contacted by email using the address with which you registered. Please ensure you check your email account regularly.
We are committed to fair, transparent recruitment and believe in equality of opportunity in our workplace and will not tolerate discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender identity, religion or belief, race or nationality, marriage or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs – or on any other grounds. We welcome applications from individuals who may wish to work part-time or apply on a job share basis.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK/RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
The salary scale shown is for a full-time member of staff, with the amount being adjusted pro rata for those working less than 37.5 hours per week.
In general, anyone joining our organisation who has not previously worked in the NHS will, by default, start on the first point of the advertised pay band. Pay progression will then be determined by annual Performance and Development Reviews in accordance with the NHS Wales Pay Progression Policy. An application for Incremental Credit may be considered, but can only be awarded based on evidenced, reckonable service and/or equivalent, relevant experience.
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Name: Jodie Philips-Stojanovic
Job title: Senior Programme Manager – Women’s Health Network
Email address: [emailprotected]
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