Address
Form of work
Salary Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is hosting on behalf of NHS London the Programme Manager to and lead a programme of work to support the elimination of sexism and Sexual Violence in healthcare workplaces including hospital and ambulance trusts, primary and wider care settings across London.
The funding for this role is fixed term and time limited and is offered as either a secondment to current NHS staff or fixed term contract for non NHS staff.
The post holder will bring knowledge and direct experience of delivering high profile and culturally sensitive change programmes that create impact for individual employees and the patients and / or communities they serve. They will also come with a proven track record for creating relationships across complex organisational systems, through which change that sustains can be delivered.
The postholder will have sound and up to date knowledge of the legal context, best practice employee policy frameworks and practical interventions including complex case handling and investigations, with organisational development insight enabling them to direct hard and soft levers for change amongst individuals and the systems within which they lead and operate.
The Royal Free London is a special organisation with an incredible history. Founded nearly 200 years ago as the Royal Free Hospital, it broke new ground and uniquely provided healthcare for anyone who
needed it more than a century before the NHS was created. That pioneering purpose and ground breaking innovation has always been at the heart of the organisation; training the first ever female medical students in the UK, leading the research and then development of treatments for HIV/AIDs, and more recently leading the development and clinical trials of the vaccines for COVID-19.
We are a major teaching and research centre and one of the major partners of UCL university and deliver nationally and internationally renowned specialist clinical services alongside a wide range of local core services.
The Trust provides services from five main hospital sites across North London, the Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, Finchley Memorial Hospital, and Edgware Hospital, plus
delivering care across 70 other sites. We have developed expertise in infectious diseases, organ transplantation, cancer care, and clinical innovation. One of the largest trusts in the UK, we are proud to
have some of the best clinical outcomes in the country, serving much of London’s diverse population, and beyond.
Our vision is to deliver world class expertise and local care, routed in our core tripartite mission of clinical excellence, ground breaking research, and excellence in education.
Creating a meaningful scope of works informed by existing evidence and insight that captures the enthusiasm and buy-in of partners across the London region (linking confidently with the national team and any centrally driven commitments and drawing on up to date NHS staff survey data);
Ensuring this scope is culturally competent, observes intersectional risks, challenges and opportunities and enhances our existing commitments to the development of anti-racist practice and the achievement of anti-racist outcomes;
Architecting the governance and oversight framework for this programme – taking the best of what exists already whilst ensuring that collective steerage and scrutiny is equal to the task in hand;
Building the delivery infrastructure through central and disaggregated trust and individual workplace teams – creating coalitions of practitioners who will work together to develop policy products, supporting services, learning interventions and case handling methodology with a ‘once for London’ mindset that reduces variation where it is unwarranted (and undermining) drives consistently high standards and pools effort and energy for greater value;
Ensuring legal insight and advice is brought to bear appropriately – learning from live cases within and outside the NHS and public sector;
Driving progress – setting ambitious goals for delivery and ensuring momentum is generated and maintained and that milestones are met;
Growing and maintaining confidence and belief amongst healthcare workers, colleagues and communities, that this programme will address the areas of change needed; and
Ensuring all good practice is shared widely for the benefit of the whole NHS; and that all participating employers are able to sign up to the NHS sexual safety charter, with a confident delivery plan to achieve the standards set.
