1. Bringing the NHS Workforce Disability Equality Standard to life for people with hidden disabilities –
Building Leadership For Inclusion (BLFI)
Event partner

2. Building Leadership For Inclusion (BLFI)
Catherine Loftus
Twitter: #BLFI
@CatherineLoftus
@TracieJolliff
@NHSLeadership

3. Building Leadership For Inclusion
Our three strategic aims
Raise the level of ambition on inclusion
Quicken the pace of change towards inclusion
Ensure that leaderships is equipped to achieve and leave an ever increasing and sustainable legacy of inclusion

4. Building Leadership For Inclusion
Our Six Building Blocks - Core to the work of BLFI
Learning through the lens of
lived experience
Developing new approaches for inclusive leadership across the NHS through lived experience
New inclusive approaches to learning
Facilitation
Leadership development
Leadership practice
Change Enablers
Pedagogy/
Andragogy
Re-skilling and
up-skilling
Fresh knowledge
content approaches
Shifting mind-sets and behaviours
HOW:
We have established four senior influencer groups BAME, Women, Disabled and LGBT+ employees. This enables us to listen and learn from the voices of ‘Lived Experience’, those employees who we know to have a less positive employee experience and who have been and are marginalised often unheard.
We have been working in six pilot sites across the country to test leadership development interventions, based upon the evidence from our collaborative academic partner, University of West England’s, research and the learning from senior influencer groups.
We have developed a cadre of expert facilitators in Inclusive Leadership Development and Leadership Practice to enable NHS leaders to further develop the mindsets, behaviours, knowledge and skills, to create cultures of inclusion. This has informed and influenced our Faculty procurement process to ensure the capacity and capability of inclusive leadership development is enhanced nationally.
The learning from the BLFI workstream is currently and will continue to inform our practice in delivering Talent Management, Core National Programmes, Coaching and Mentoring, our National Network of Inclusion Leads, ODF and ED&I Networks, the work of regional Academies, GMTS and the creation of a new Inclusive Leadership development and Board offer. (ILD&BO)

5. Building Leadership For Inclusion
Pilot Sites
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Bristol City Council and STPs
Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership
NHS National Leadership Academy

6. Building Leadership For Inclusion
Senior Influencer Groups
‘Embrace’ - Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME)
‘DiverseAbility’ - Disabled
Women
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual+ (LGBT+)

7. Want to get involved?
Would like to get involved in the Building Leadership For Inclusion Influencer Groups? We would love to hear from you if you do:
Please either
with your contact details giving us permission to share with our colleagues in the national and regional academies working on BLFI Or
Complete one of our contact forms on your seats/tables and we will collect them later.