Equality And Engagement Lead

The key purpose of this role is to support building relationships and networks across Wiltshire communities and groups to identify health inequalities and to work with local communities, Public Health Nurse Led teams and wider system partners to reduce the impact of the inequalities.

The role will support increasing service user and local community involvement in the development of services and in establishing open and inclusive feedback mechanisms for the Wiltshire Child and Family Wellbeing Service increasing coproduction.

One Equality and Engagement Lead will be based from each of the three Wiltshire hubs working with a focus in this community:

Base

High Post Salisbury

Package DescriptionAs a Equality and Engagement Lead, you’ll be part of our valued team at High Post Salisbury. 

You will feel valued as a Equality and Engagement Lead within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

£35,392- £42,618 Band 6 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location 
Plentiful on site-parking
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise 
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities
To build effective relationships and networks across Wiltshire’s underserved communities, system partners and the Wiltshire Child and Family Wellbeing Service.
To communicate effectively across partners, communities, services users and agencies to effectively establish and deliver the role.
To support better access and inclusion for underserved communities promoting access to services that are sensitive and responsive to specific communities needs helping to improve health outcomes.
To collect and analyse data and information from multiple services and sources to develop options for service development and to produce reports as required.
To ensure all activity is underpinned with a trauma informed approach ensuring compliance with Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023.
Support intentional inclusivity and cultural sensitivity by providing and supporting the development of culturally appropriate and accessible tools and resources.
To develop forums to collect service user feedback and reviewing this to identify themes for service development.
To manage the Young Engagement Lead roles and support the development of colleagues into wider health and care roles.
Build Community Resilience and Social Capacity.
To lead on the promotion of cultural sensitivity and inclusion across the Public Health Nursing Workforce.
To update the service regularly with progress and establish and deliver training requirements.
To consider the digital service offer and how we can work to reduce and remove any barriers to access.

The Ideal CandidateEssential

Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification (degree or post graduate level or equivalent).
Current NMC registration on third part of the register.
Highly developed communication skills including the ability to provide and receive highly complex Information enabling partners to access the information.
Experience in leading and working within public health nurse led teams.
Experience of working with communities and service users to build positive networks and community capacity.
Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and families.
Skills for assessing health needs at Individual, group and community levels and planning options for action to reduce the impact of inequalities.
Ability to plan and manage own workload from overarching service transformation plan.
Ability to analyse Information and produce reports.
Qualification in practice supervising/assessing for nurse learners.
Working knowledge of public health tools and programmes used to improve outcomes for children.
Ability to travel at work across Wiltshire and within rural localities.
Ability to work with electronic health records and with IT systems.

Desirable

Experience of working within or leading inclusion and diversity work.
Training In trauma informed and resilience-based approaches.
Experience in line management and developing teams.
Experience of working with wider multiagency partners.
Experience of working to project briefs, managing challenges and meeting deadlines.

About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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