Principal Psychological Therapist Equality Diversity & Inclusion Lead


Company:	East London NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£66,718 - £76,271 per annum pro rata Inc HCA
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	London Bridge, SE1 2EL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	16 Oct 2026
Closing date:	15 Nov 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at East London NHS Foundation Trust.

This post is the 0.2 WTE B8b London Pathways Partnership Community Diversity and Inclusion Lead. The postholder will work across London Community Pathways services to promote the diversity and inclusion of staff and service participants.

The post holder will chair the monthly London Community Pathways Diversity group, overseeing the diversity plan and delivering its priority objectives. The diversity and inclusion lead will coordinate the data and research aims to understand ethnicity trends relating to access, retention and completion of services; improve the quality of interventions by understanding and addressing barriers to access and to improve retention; and will help to increase the confidence and competence of the workforce in culturally aware attitudes and behaviours related to ethnicity and protected characteristics.

The postholder will ensure all diversity and inclusion workstreams incorporate lived experience perspectives.

Key Responsibilities

• To chair the monthly LPP Community Pathways diversity meeting

• Responsible for the ToR for the Community Pathways diversity group

• Responsible for reviewing, updating and oversight of delivery of the London Community Pathways diversity plan

• Responsible for delivery of the key priorities for the London Community diversity plan

• Liaison with key stakeholders to deliver the London Community Pathways diversity plan, including Probation Service London, Commissioners and OPD partners, Together for Mental Wellbeing, Women in Prison and Penrose

• To address diversity and inclusion and promote the needs of groups with protected characteristics across all London Community Pathway Services

• To contribute towards the promotion of equal treatment and proportional representation of staff of from diverse groups

• To set up systems for monitoring the equal progression of people on probation from protected groups throughout the service

• To set up systems for monitoring the outcomes of staff from diverse groups on the London Community pathway

• Ensure that all staff members of the Community Pathway have access to support to enhance their work from a diversity perspective

• Ensure the development and articulation of best practice in catering for diversity of people on probation and staff on the Community Pathway .

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

This advert closes on Friday 30 Oct 2026

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