Reducing Health Inequalities Lead

The Bradford District Care Foundation Trust Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team are recruiting and we're looking for someone who is:

• passionate about achieving equality and reducing health inequalities.


• looking to develop their career in this area.


• innovative in their approaches to creating safe, effective, accessible, inclusive and compassionate health services and work spaces.


We will support and develop you ensuring you are given a platform to further establish your own career and reputation for delivery across the Trust.

We are looking for someone who is confident in working with a wide range of people. Someone who can demonstrate a range of skills including community engagement and co-production, project and culture change management, communications and marketing, identifying and creating evidence based innovations and best practice in health services, training development and delivery, web and intranet page design and maintenance, someone who can contribute to strategy and policy development, analyse data and build strong networks for change.

We aim to deliver using co-production and involvement, evidence-based approaches and interventions. We are keen to strengthen our approach to evaluation and performance measurement., The EDI - Reducing Health Inequalities Lead will work with the EDI Team and leads from across the organisation and wider partnership groups to ensure that the Trust is meeting all of the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 and the Statutory Duties relating to tackling Health Inequalities.

The post will support various programmes of work such as the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework, the Accessible Information Standard, the Sexual Orientation Monitoring Standard and NHS Rainbow Badge Scheme.

These programmes aim to improve access, patient experience and the outcomes of people living with long-term conditions in Bradford, Airedale and Craven, whilst reducing health inequalities. It will include action to reduce the occurrence of long-term conditions and multimorbidity and optimise outcomes, prevent complications and address the wider determinants of health. Achieving this will require partnership working across the Trust and with other health and care organisations.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.