Surrey VCFS Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Lead - 18 months Fixed Term Contract

Job Description

Full Time (37.5 hours per week) / Salary £45,000 - £50,000 per annual (dependant on experience) - part-time role consideredSurrey charities (the Voluntary, Community, and Faith Sector - VCFS) are ambitious about Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and playing a central role in enabling everyone to have a great start in life and to live healthy and fulfilling lives. In June2020, we set up the Surrey EDI Steering Group to bring together leaders from the charity, faith and community sectors, along with partners in the public sector and EDI experts, to help evaluate where we are, share best practice and consider actions to helpcreate a fairer and more inclusive and equal Surrey. This steering group produced the Ambitions for an Equitable Surrey report (March 2021), with recommendations for all Surrey VCFS organisations.As we strive to continue this focus on creating an equitable Surrey, we are delighted to have been awarded grant funding from Surrey County Council to enable a post to help facilitate sector-wide EDI support, challenge and learning. The post holder willbe supported by the Surrey EDI Steering Group and be mentored by us (Dalton Leong - The Childrens Trust Chief Executive and Maria Mills - Active Prospects Chief Executive), as well as an expert EDI lead. The post holder will be hosted by The Childrens Truston their standard terms and conditions of employment for a fixed term post. The post supports hybrid working with the requirement to be in office/community based and undertake travel, as required, to deliver the role outputs.The role of Surrey VCFS Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Lead is to drive EDI ambitions within the voluntary, community and faith sector (VCFS) in Surrey that contribute to system-wide improvements across the county, creating fairer communities, where noone is left behind, and discrimination of any sort is actively challenged and reduced. This is particularly important as the impact of COVID 19 has exaggerated the inequity across Surrey and this work will enhance the third sectors capability in supportingsystem partners in delivering the 2030 Vision for Surrey.The ideal candidate will have experience of strategically implementing equity, diversity and inclusion policies, analysing and making recommendations for improvement where necessary and collaborative engagement and communication of the EDI journey with oras part of the VCFS is essential for this role. You will be passionate about progressing EDI and making a difference for people and communities, have strong stakeholder management and be skilled at training, development and engagement of staff to increasepeoples awareness of EDI and unconscious bias.Closing Date: Friday 4th March 2022Interview Date: Friday 11th March 2022PLEASE NOTE: The Childrens Trust Application Form MUST be completed and submitted, in order for your application to be considered. As part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and will be further explored during the interviewprocess. Strictly no agencies please.As we often receive high levels of applicants for our roles, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assumeyou have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.The Childrens Trust is the UKs leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via ourBrain Injury Community Service.Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton and Epsom.The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including, adoption pay, time off for fertility treatment, enhanced paternity leave, paid carers leave, time out days for those experiencingmenopause symptoms, time off for gender reassignment, and much more. We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service. Other benefitsinclude: free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Coulsdon South train station to Tadworth Court; subsidised cafeteria; on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability); the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunityto join an alternative scheme; and the opportunity to develop and implement your expertise in an environment that is as unusual in its beautiful historic nature, as it is unique in its state-of-the-art facilities.The Childrens Trust is fully committed to protecting children and young people. All posts at The Childrens Trust are subject to an enhanced DBS check. If you are applying to The Childrens Trust, and are already registered with the DBS update service,this will speed up the recruitment process significantly.The Childrens Trust has a duty of care to minimise the risk of all infectious diseases to the vulnerable and extremely vulnerable children and young people in our care, as well as our employees and volunteers. As a result, we require staff to provide avalid NHS Covid Pass (or proof of Covid vaccinations or medical exemption) for all roles at Tadworth Court and in the Brain Injury Community Service. We also expect staff to have taken or be willing to take relevant immunisations required by the role to protectthem against infectious diseases, (unless you are medically exempt).

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