Our Priorities
Fellowship Programme
We will use the West Yorkshire ICS Fellowship Programme to support our system ambition to increase the percentage of leaders from ethnic minority backgrounds. We will also work with the National Improvement next Programme to address the issue of Board level diversity. We will use the mentoring programme to encourage people with protected charatceristics into system leadership positions.
Board Level Diversity
We will explore how the neXt Programme will address the issue of Board level diversity and we will influence Trust Boards to recruit in a way which is culturally appropriate.
Health Inequalities
We will implement the recommendations from the West Yorkshire HCP independent review into health inequalities to ensure these are effective. We will also support the roll out of the best practice toolkit, developed by the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership in October 2021. This toolkit reduces the disparity experienced by ethnic minority colleagues during the recruitment process. We will also support the Core20PLUS5 NHS England and NHS Improvement approach to supporting the reduction of health inequalities. The approach defines a target population cohort based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation, which will receive targeted support. Core20PLUS5 also identifies ‘5’ focus clinical areas requiring accelerated improvement.
Race and Disability Workforce Standards
Our actions and performance on this pillar will be aligned with Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), Medical Workforce Race Equality Standard (MWRES) and the Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
Breaking Barriers
We will work with Breaking Barriers Innovation on workforce entry barriers for different sectors of the community and how the NHS and anchor institutions can support with that.
The purpose will be to identify learning that could be applied across West Yorkshire on co-production of solutions to support people into employment. This work will link into the economic regeneration agenda
The local programme on this pillar will also coordinate a system-wide approach in the following key areas:
- Wakefield EDI Pledge signed by partners and progress tracked through EDI sub group
- Introduction of Executive leads for individual protected characteristics
- Offer placement opportunities to WY&H fellowship programme and encourage staff across the system to become fellows
- Address issues of equality, diversity and inclusion in the VCSE sector
- Develop monitoring systems to track BAME recruitment and retention
- Ensure that the Apprenticeship Programme adopts a more inclusive approach
Develop supervisory skills around supporting staff from BAME communities
