Equalities and Health Inequalities Clinical Fellow

NHS England; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization is seeking an experienced leader to manage healthcare inequalities improvement initiatives across NHS England. The successful candidate will demonstrate innovative clinical thinking and strong analytical skills, as well as the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders for meaningful healthcare change. The role includes ensuring high-quality services are delivered efficiently while contributing to the government’s long-term health plan to reduce inequalities.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading healthcare inequality initiatives.
• Innovative clinical thinking with problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and embed healthcare inequalities improvement initiatives across NHS England.
• Analyze problems and devise pragmatic solutions for health inequality issues.
• Communicate and engage stakeholders to drive delivery and change.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Analytical Thinking

Communication Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Data Analysis

Job description

The National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Team drives NHS efforts to deliver the vision of exceptional quality healthcare for all, ensuring equitable access, excellent experience, and optimal outcomes.

The role of the Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Team is principally threefold; setting direction to address healthcare inequalities across NHS England (NHSE) and the wider NHS; driving delivery by developing capability and capacity building, and ensuring accountability, fostering a positive improvement culture in our contribution to delivering on the government’s ten year health plan and mission to narrow the regional gap in healthy life expectancy.

Underpinning all our work is a strong focus on quality improvement with a real emphasis on data for improvement, strengths‑based approaches and co‑production with communities, patients, and service users.

About You

You will be a visible leader, showing the skills and confidence to shape, influence, develop and help embed healthcare inequalities improvement initiatives across NHS England.

You will be an innovative and experienced clinical thinker with the ability to analyse problems and devise pragmatic solutions, the skills to scope and lead complex, national programmes of work to tackle health inequalities through the NHS, and the confidence to provide influential views on a whole host of issues. This will include using data and evidence to shape policy and practice, and. will have the skills and experience to and proactively prioritising the team’s activity.

With strong relationship skills, you will communicate effectively and engage internal and external stakeholders to drive delivery and practical change across the NHS.

Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.

Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms — including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial — enabling us to design and deliver high‑quality NHS services.

We Lead The NHS In England By

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money

Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, leading to full integration. The aim is to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and eliminates waste.

If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the recruitment process.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Hannah Baird Job title: Equality and Health Inequalities Clinical Fellow Email address: [e-mail]