Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Assistant - Lincoln, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

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Lincoln, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

The EDI assistant provides a professional and high-quality customer focused service to the managers, staff, staff networks and other stakeholders.

Providing support in the monitoring and administration of all aspects of the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda.

The EDI Assistant provides first line advice by telephone, in writing and face to face to a range of managers, staff, staff networks and other stakeholders, ensuring consideration is given to the needs of the stakeholder, providing and receiving routine information requiring tact and or persuasive skills, provides and receives complex or sensitive information.

Admin support for the EDI team.
Manage and support the staff networks and support groups with a range of work procedures and practices i.e., WRES/WDES.
Set up meetings, facilitate arrangements for EDI celebration weeks and days.
Manage the Cultural Intelligence programme process, as well as the Reverse Mentoring Programme admin.
Manage the Armed Forces Covenant and the employee recognition scheme.
Text processing, storage of data, enters data into EDI Systems. Occasional requirement to use computer software to develop or create statistical reports. Involved but not leading on reports to ensure data quality and provide relevant information to internal and external stakeholders.
Manage the EDI web pages/including Staff network pages, generic EDI in-box, manage the EDI calendar.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagementin the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives.

Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments.

Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

Manage and support the staff networks and support groups with a range of work procedures and practices i.e., WRES/WDES.

Base level of theoretical knowledge i.e., WRES/WDES and EDS - resolves queries on the same. Set up meetings, facilitate arrangements for EDI celebration weeks and days (to include Black History Month, LGBT+ History Month, Carers week and International Women's Day - list not inclusive, manage the Cultural Intelligence programme process, ordering and issuing relevant correspondence, responsible for maintaining stock control (CQ licences), as well as the Reverse Mentoring Programme admin - liaising between mentor/mentees. Sending out campaign materials to various LCHS sites.

Manage the Armed Forces Covenant and the employee recognition scheme.
Text processing, storage of data, enters data into EDI Systems. Occasional requirement to use computer software to develop or create statistical reports. Involved but not leading on reports to ensure data quality and provide relevant information to internal and external stakeholders.

Using VDU equipment continuously. Mixture of working from home, office conditions and occasional visits to different sites.

Manage the EDI web pages/including Staff network pages, generic EDI in-box, manage the EDI calendar: promote on website/FB/twitter/internal comms and manage promotion of webinars, 'See me first' badges/LGBT badges and pledges - Allyship. There is frequent sitting or standing in a restricted position required, frequent light effort for several short periods. Sits in constrained position for data processing
Organisation of EDS meetings with teams that we are working with.
Support the staff networks to develop action plans/reports. Exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances is rare but on rare occasions direct exposure when the jobholder can be exposed to emotional demands for example in staff networks or on a 1:1 basis from staff.
Working with excel/venngage/Canva and word - advanced keyboard skills.
Managing Inclusive Employer and Invisible Disability resources promotion.
Support the EDI Lead EDI Practitioner with the EDI Agenda with an ability to work on own initiative whilst anticipating the wider consequences of decisions and know when to refer upwards.
Standard operating procedures, someone available for reference. Complies with standard EDI operation procedures, refer to EDI Lead of EDI practitioner for advice. Undertakes surveys and audits, necessary to own work. Frequent concentration is required for checking documents. Provide the ED&I Lead with initial data analysis on a range of facts or situations which require analysis or c