Senior Equality, Health Inequalities and Human Rights Officer

Salary: Grade B: £37,694 (National Framework) or £42,863 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £529 per annum for those working from home.
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week or part-time, minimum 28 hours per week. Job share may be considered
Contract: Fixed Term/Secondment opportunity until 31st March 2024
Location: Home based
Closing Date: Monday 20th February 2023 at 11.59pm
Potential Interview Date: (via Teams): Friday 3rd March 2023

This role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

About Us

We’re the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we work to improve health and adult social care in England.

Through the dedication of our expert team, we monitor health and social care services to provide England with a safe and compassionate care system, recognising when services perform well as well as encouraging improvements and taking action over poorer care, where necessary.

One of our main commitments is to become a truly inclusive organisation and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To do so, we work with a variety of networks, including the Disability Equality Network, Race Equality Network and LGBT+ Equality Network.

Created by our collaborative Policy and Strategy Team, our policies and strategies enable us to regulate services in a way that encourages improvement in the quality of care.

So, with your expertise, we can continue to shape our key role in the health and social care system.

We are now looking for a Senior Equality, Health Inequalities and Human Rights Officer to join our team.

The Benefits

- 27 days’ annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays
- NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution
- Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day
- Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars
- Discounted gym vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!
- Equipment for homeworking

Why this could be a great role for you….

If you have experience in an equality and or human rights function, this is a fantastic opportunity to join our essential organisation and play a pivotal role in ensuring equality and human rights are at the forefront of our work.

In return for your exceptional efforts, we’ll provide you with an equally incredible array of benefits, covering all of your personal and professional needs, from a brilliant pension scheme to discounts at the gym, supermarkets and so much more!

So, if you have a strong commitment to tackling inequalities and promoting human rights, we want to hear from you.

What you will bring…

To be considered as a Senior Equality, Health Inequalities and Human Rights Officer, you will need:

- Experience working in an equality and or human rights function
- Experience developing equality, health inequalities and human rights materials
- Experience of taking a structured approach to problem solving in a policy context
- Experience analysing the impact of legislation and policy and delivering policy projects
- Experience developing and delivering policy proposals, recommendations and guidance
- Experience working with cultural change
- Knowledge of the health and/or social care sector

What you’ll be doing…

As a Senior Equality, Health Inequalities and Human Rights Officer, you will support equality work on health inequalities and human rights implications throughout CQC.

Developing specific work and policy areas that will help set our strategic direction, you will deliver projects within our regulatory development work for health and care settings.

You will also analyse the implications of external legislative, policy and other drivers in relation to our strategy and develop regulatory policies, methods and guidance which enable us to promote equality and human rights and tackle health inequalities.

Additionally, you will:

- Provide advice and quality assurance of products and outputs from other teams
- Assist in developing and embedding culture change
- Ensure that policies, methods and guidance meet the needs of operational delivery
- Engage staff in the development of the strategy
- Provide advice and guidance in response to queries

Next steps…

If you require any support or assistance with the recruitment process, please get in touch with our team or include a note in your application.

We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

So, if you’d like to join us as a Senior Equality, Health Inequalities and Human Rights Officer, please apply via the button shown.

Other organisations may call this role Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer, EDI Officer, Equality & Diversity Officer, Equality Officer, Inclusion Officer, or EDI Strategy Manager.