The place with equality, equity and inclusion at its heart
The NCA is committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process that allows the best candidate(s) to be recruited.
Inclusion is a value that is lived not just by words but by our actions and the culture we create. We strive to remove barriers, so everyone has a fair and equal opportunity to join the NCA and bring their individual talents and strengths to our team.
We do this by
- Using a blind recruitment process – hiding identifiable information from job applications to limit bias in shortlisting
- Training hiring managers on recruitment best practice
- Involving cultural ambassadors during each stage of the recruitment process for senior posts
- Providing reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability
- Using guaranteed interviews to support disabled applicants, and those from the Armed Forces community to enhance their access to interview
- Using a range of diverse assessment methods, to ensure applicants are not unfairly disadvantaged or advantaged by a specific form of assessment
- Arranging virtual interviews (if appropriate)
We are also piloting sharing interview questions in advance for a range of our vacancies. This approach is being tested to create a more level and fairer playing field for candidates, particularly for neurodiverse candidates or for candidates whose first language isn’t English.
We are continually working to raise the bar and make sure that inequalities are never a barrier. Employing people from a wealth of backgrounds, and with different languages, cultures, abilities, and ethnicities helps us to provide the highest quality care to all our patients, across the diverse communities we serve.
By introducing the above measures, we strive for all job applicants to feel supported in their recruitment journey at our trust.
