Equality and Human Rights Team Manager B8b

The opportunity within the Public Health Directorate is to recruit to the position of Equalities and Human Rights Manager within the Equalities and Human Rights (EHR) Team, based within the Public Health Directorate. The team is responsible for developing and delivering "A Fairer NHSGGC."

• Meeting the Requirements of the Equality Act (Equality Scheme) covering a suite of equality outcomes and mainstream functions to meet the general duty in the Equality Act.

The work of the team to support compliance with equalities legislation broadly falls into three categories:

• Provision of professional leadership and specialist knowledge to support policy development.
• Transforming practice through service engagement.
• Legal risk mitigation.

The post holder will provide strategic leadership and will lead on policy development in relation to NHSGGC's equalities duties and legislation, and provide expert advice to support the development of key NHS strategies, service redesign and service developments, ensuring NHSGGC designs and delivers services in a way that is compliant with that legislation and meets the needs of our diverse population.

The post holder will also be required to lead aspects of the EHR team development including the development of performance measures and ensuring the resources (finance and staff) are deployed appropriately.

Successful candidates will be qualified to Masters' degree standard or be able to demonstrate ability at that level in either health policy, social policy, public health or business administration and have experience of working in the inequalities or equality and diversity field.

Additional essential criteria include experience of:

• Leading and influencing at a high strategic level
• Policy formulation and implementation (preferably within an NHS environment or complex organisation)
• Contributing to the overall performance of and management of teams

For an informal discussion please contact Marion O'Neill, General Manager. Telephone No: ; email:

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