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Hours: 18.75 per week

Contract: Two-year fixed term contract

Salary: FTE £35,000 – £40,000 dependent on experience

Closing date: Tuesday 30th November 2021 at 9am

Interview Date: Tuesday 14th December 2021

About us:

St Wilfrid’s Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an ‘outstanding’ provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community.

We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive and respectful, and these are embedded in our culture. We have a dynamic learning environment which actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression.

The Role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and engaging individual to support in developing and implementing our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategy. You will be responsible for driving forward the strategic EDI objectives by leading, facilitating and enabling the EDI Delivery Group.

By actively engaging with a diverse range of individuals and community groups, you will build connections between St Wilfrid’s Hospice and hard to reach communities, as well as creating a genuine culture of inclusiveness within the hospice.

You will lead a group of committed colleagues to work through an action plan, which includes reviewing and reframing our internal and external communications, creating robust policies, and developing short and longer-term training programmes to embed and build knowledge and skills around this important work for our team.

We are dedicated to improving EDI within our workforce and ensuring there are no barriers to accessing our services or to working within the organisation. If you feel as passionate about this as we do and have a proactive mindset, we would love to hear from you.

Benefits included:

We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays
Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership
Discounted cinema tickets
Employee assistance programmes
Additional training opportunities
Supportive working environment

Please contact Georgina Chandler, Head of Human Resources on email Georgina.Chandler@stwhospice.org or telephone 07718 009544 for further information.

If you have any questions regarding your application please do not hesitate to contact the Human Resources Team on 01323 434209 or email recruitment@stwhospice.org