Creating a Diverse Workforce Maintaining an Inclusive Culture Demonstrating Inclusive Leadership. Practical Steps to embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion within your teams

This document has been produced by the South West Finance Academy with a view to assist our finance departments with producing and reviewing job adverts to ensure they are inclusive and accessible to potential candidates.

The NHS Finance Insights placement scheme offers paid work experience in NHS organisations throughout England to individuals aged 18 and above, in full-time education, who do not plan to attend university and come from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

We have developed a commitment charter, designed to offer a recruiting manager a means to clearly set their expectation of a recruitment process in-line with NHS D&I standards when conducted through a recruitment consultant or agency.

This resource looks specifically at encouraging flexible working within all NHS finance teams providing a guide that covers: What is flexible working? Benefits for the individual and the finance team, case study examples of working arrangements within NHS finance.

The strategy aims to transform how we attract and retain talent within our finance teams and addresses critical challenges such as inconsistent recruitment approaches and unfilled vacancies, with a clear vision to make the NHS the number one employer for finance careers.

An example of the initial steps that Cat Youds, Assistant Director of Finance – Medical Care Group, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented to set up their I&D Ambassador Champions network and what they have achieved so far.

An employee resource to support staff who are due to go on parental leave. Including case studies providing lived experiences from colleagues within the NHS finance community.

This case study explores a successful job-sharing arrangement in the NHS Finance Team at Norfolk Community Health and Care (NCH&C), shared by Jade Schiebler and Emma Lunny.

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We provide a platform for individuals from various backgrounds to share their stories, experiences, and traditions. Read the resource pack here.

The Women in Leadership programme is improving the gender balance in senior finance roles, ensuring that NHS finance leadership reflects wider society.

This resource aims to support those advertising and recruiting NHS finance positions.

Download our informative and helpful guidance for line managers to help them support members of staff whilst on different forms of parental leave.

Equitably cultivating everyone’s best potential for the benefit of the NHS, with talent management that leaves no one behind.

Watch back on all our sessions related to Diversity and Inclusion on our YouTube playlist.