Gender Pay Gap Report 2019
Gender pay gap reporting legislation requires legal entities with 250 or more employees to publish statutory calculations every year showing the pay gap between their male and female colleagues.
The snapshot date – 5 April 2018
There were changes to our workforce a couple of days before the snapshot date as one of contracts to provide services reached its end. This meant there were a number of TUPE transfers just prior to the snapshot date.
Steps we’ve taken since the snapshot update:
Senior Leadership
We have focused on promoting female representation in our senior position. As of the date of this report, the membership of our Senior Leadership Team was 52% female. Our Executive team is 67% female, and we have now appointed a female CEO – our most senior leadership role.
Pay and Reward
As an Independent provider, we successfully fought hard to ensure we received the funding for the 18/19 Agenda for Change Pay award.
Training
We’ve created and commenced the roll out of a new training programme for our managers on best employment practices, including a dedicated section on mitigating unconscious bias in the recruitment process.
Leadership Development
We launched a number of apprenticeship schemes and learning interventions to help develop leadership capability across all levels of our workforce. This includes health and social care, plus leadership and business administration and for the first time our Level 5 Operational Manager Diploma apprenticeship for our leaders of leaders.
Leadership Workshops
We delivered leadership workshops across the country to support ours leaders in services and those who are leading functions and departments.
Agile Working
We commenced the roll out of a new e-rostering programme to enable more colleagues to work flexibly across our services and gain further experience whilst balancing their personal commitments. This was combined with a refresh of our ‘bank’ rates of pay to match market rates.
What we’re planning to do next:
• Agile Working: We’ll continue to roll out and promote our new e-rostering programme and ‘bank’ work options.
• Supporting Progression: Continue to review our people policies and look for opportunities to further support colleagues balance their work and home commitments. This is an important part of our strategy for supporting female colleagues to progress their careers.
• Policy: Relaunch of our Equality and Diversity Policy.
• Removal of Gender Bias: Audit our job adverts and job descriptions to minimise and, where possible, completely remove gender biased language to ensure our opportunities appeal to all.
• Reward Offering: We’ve conducted a full review of our Pay and Reward offering to ensure our offering meets the needs of all colleagues and enables us to attract the best colleagues to our organisation. We will review our bonus scheme rules to continue the positive momentum we have achieved with reducing the gender pay gap in this area.
• Leadership Development: We will formally launch our bespoke Leadership and Coaching Programme to support and develop our senior leadership group and Executive Team. We will also continue to build our apprenticeship career pathways with both Level 6 and 7 apprenticeships delivering degrees and masters. These programmes will help encourage and promote internal progression into our senior management group and Executive Team.
