Equality, Diveristy and Inclusion
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is strongly committed to ensuring its services and employment practices are fair, accessible, and inclusive for the diverse communities we serve and the workforce we employ.
Our commitment
- We will celebrate and harness our unique, rich and diverse communities and workforce
- We want everyone who comes into contact with the Trust to feel valued and respected
- We will provide services to all our communities in a fair and appropriate way
- We want to remove any barriers for people when they are accessing our services
EDI Strategy
This EDI Annual report feeds into the EDI Strategy 2022-25 which has also been developed following the evidence deriving from our Workforce Race Equality Standard, Workforce Disability Equality Standard, Gender Pay Gap and results from the NHS Staff Survey 2020.
These metrics show that inequalities exist our staff with protected characteristics, reporting higher levels of poorer experience including harassment, bullying or abuse at work; greater inequalities in access to employment, development, and progression; lack of equitable representation across entry, middle and senior level roles and lack of diversity in leadership positions.
The focus for 2022-25 will be on the delivery of four key aims:
Current employees and future talent with protected characteristics are offered equality of opportunity and fair access to jobs, development and career progression
- Employees with protected characteristics can work free from discrimination, and bullying and
harassment, in an inclusive work environment that embraces diversity - Current employees and future talent with protected characteristics are enabled into
leadership positions to drive lived experience into the heart of decision-making and to ensure
services are designed, developed and delivered with inclusivity - We are compliant with our responsibilities under the relevant legislation and our data and
resulting reports are consistent and accessible, as are the calculation and data analysis methodologies
Our plans are ambitious; we will achieve our aims through the development of four organisational priorities:
- Workforce
- Culture
- Compliance
- Health inequalities
Health inequalities will be progressed in partnership with the Patient and Service Engagement team and key partners and across Commissioning areas and the Greater Manchester Inequalities programmes.