EDI Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health services provider in the UK is seeking a dynamic Senior EDI Practitioner to enhance equality and inclusion within their workforce. This role will focus on leading EDI initiatives, providing expert advice, and implementing comprehensive strategies to ensure the organization fosters a truly inclusive culture. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in EDI, excellent communication skills, and a deep understanding of EDI legislation. Opportunities for professional development are available within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in leading EDI initiatives within a complex organization.
• Strong knowledge of EDI legislation, best practice, and workforce data analysis.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Trust's EDI programmes, championing a culture of inclusion.
• Provide expert advice on EDI matters.
• Develop and implement the Trust's EDI strategy.
• Oversee EDI data and reporting systems.

Skills

Leading EDI initiatives

Knowledge of EDI legislation

Data analysis

Excellent communication

Collaboration skills

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

What you'll do:

• Lead the Trust's EDI programmes, championing a culture of inclusion and continuous improvement.
• Provide expert advice and guidance on all EDI matters to leaders, managers and staff.
• Develop, implement and review the Trust's EDI strategy, ensuring we deliver on our People Strategy and statutory obligations.
• Oversee EDI data and reporting systems, ensuring data quality, security and compliance.
• Engage and empower staff through Trust-wide inclusion networks and events.
• Design and deliver impactful EDI training, workshops and leadership development programmes.
• Collaborate with senior leaders, staff networks and external partners to promote best practice and innovation.
• Support the development of inclusive policies and procedures across the organisation.
• Manage EDI budgets and resources effectively.
• Role model the Trust's values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children's & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website – https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Are you passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion? Do you want to drive real change and help shape a culture where everyone can thrive?

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior EDI Practitioner to join our Organisational Effectiveness team. You'll play a pivotal role in making Mersey Care a truly inclusive place to work and receive care. In return, we offer a supportive environment, opportunities for professional development, and the chance to make a lasting impact.

What we're looking for:

• Substantial experience in leading EDI initiatives within a complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge of EDI legislation, best practice and workforce data analysis.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and influencing skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Commitment to promoting a positive, inclusive and just culture.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.