Race Equality webinar, held on Friday 23 June 2023.

This webinar covered:

• how NHS leaders have implemented practical solutions-based interventions to support our internationally educated workforce (IEW)
• induction for IEW and delivering equality within recruitment and talent management processes.

Find the slides here.

Hear Professor Geeta Menon share her own lived experience, and discuss the importance of safe recruitment practices and psychological safety for IEW. 

Hear Professor Dom Patterson outline details of Culture in Health's cultural competence programme for line managers of IEW, including the programmes aims, content and impact.

Hear Oonagh Monkhouse and Onika Patrick-Redhead discuss the support Royal Papworth Hospital offer to their IEWs, through staff networks and reciprocal mentoring. They also share how they recognised the previous work experience of IEW, appropriately re-banding them and back dating their pay using the agenda for change rules. 

Listen to the individual Q&As for each speaker and the panel Q&A where delegates ask questions on:

• how to prioritise supporting the internationally educated workforce (IEW) at board level?
• how to consider cultural safety, EDI and health inequalities as one integrated plan?
• what strategies are needed alongside education to create impact?
• how to teach managers to support the anti-racism agenda?
• how to recognise previous experience for IEW when they join the NHS?
• what advice the panel would give to board leaders looking to better support their IEW?

Resources:

• NHS Provider's next day briefing on NHSE's EDI improvement plan. On Thursday 8 June 2023, NHSE published its first EDI improvement plan. Developed in consultation with diverse staff, staff networks and stakeholders, NHS Providers are pleased to contribute to this process as part of the working group. Read our briefing that outlines the context of the plan and summarises the high impact actions and accountability framework.

Chair: Dr MaryAnn Ferreux - Medical director, Kent, Surry and Sussex Academic Health Science Network and Associate Non-executive director, Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Panellists:

Professor Geeta Menon – Postgraduate Dean, for South London, Health Education England

Dom Patterson – GP; founder and managing director, Seventeen Seconds; national clinical advisor, NHSE

Oonagh Monkhouse – Director of workforce and OD, Royal Papworth Hospital FT (RPH)

Onika Patrick-Redhead – Head of equality diversity and inclusion, RPH.