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Are you interested in the Black Lives Matter reverse mentoring support scheme?

March 26, 2021

It is essential that our health and care system reflects the UK demographics as a whole, especially when two of Britain’s greatest assets are our diversity and deep inter-country ties. Despite the improvements that the NHS has made on improving its overall diversity, more work is needed in the representation of racial diversity at senior grades, ensuring that the NHS is culturally diverse and embodies an inclusive thinking and performing culture. Evidences show that by listening, learning and embedding the lived professional expertise and experiences of ethnic minority staff into new work practices and delivery; that this produces quality improvements in working cultures and service outcomes.

To support the above the STP Black Lives Matter reverse mentoring support scheme (BLM RMSS) is being launched. This innovative and most timely required scheme will see senior leads identified within the STP https://www.healthierfutures.co.uk restoration and recovery board membership paired with ethnic minority frontline staff to address and help challenge ingrained views on what talent looks like, break down stereotypes and biases, but to also essentially establish a new model of inclusive productivity and culture in action planning, co-design and inclusive best practice.

The STP BLM RMSS is a direct response to not only 2019/20 national, regional & local Black Country STP improvement action plans, but it will also proactively respond to the publication of the Foreign Office report, ‘Black skin, Whitehall: Race and the Foreign Office, 1945 to 2018’.

It will also significantly address:

  • Adopting a proactive improvement and change plan that evidences being advocates and activists to support the international, national, regional and local ‘Black Lives Matters’ Campaigns.
  • The STP pledge to deliver on addressing the acute health inequalities for ethnic minority communities; not only due to the concerning revelations of how Covid-19 affects ethnic minority population, but essentially because we have a moral and ethical duty to fully commit to equality rights.
  • Creating a network of champions reverse mentors required to help move the NHS forward.

Please see STP BLM RMSS Expression of Interest Form if this is of interest to you.

Note: All completed expressions of interest forms should be returned to Yassar.mohammed@nhs.net by Monday 5 April, 5pm.

For further information please call 07970 372473.