Providing an inclusive workplace with equal opportunities
We're increasing workforce diversity, by:
- Adopting inclusive recruitment and job posting best practice
- Supporting Women in Engineering events and campaigns
- Increasing diversity of people in senior roles
We're also:
- Increasing Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) awareness amongst our people
- Adopting alternative recruitment channels that support equal access to employment, including partnerships with Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Armed Forces etc.
- Actively supporting people, parents and carers in, or returning to, work
- Supporting people-focused internal campaigns throughout the year
- Adopting a dynamic working approach
Engaging with the communities we work in
We're increasing our support to local people, businesses, initiatives and charities, by:
- Providing employee volunteering guidelines
- Each depot supporting at least one local business, charity, school or project
- Each depot nominating a local charity and completing at least one "all hands" fundraising event every year
- Employing local people
Early career engagement
We're supporting people into 'earn and learn' jobs and we're championing STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) activity in the community, by:
- Doing a regular STEM Ambassador on-boarding drive
- Each location completing at least two STEM events anually with local organisations
- Developing 'STEM Lite' programme alongside our existing 16-week Education Programme
- Providing a structured learning environment for Apprentices and Graduates with our renewed development schemes
Supporting our people
We're supporting health, wellbeing and career progression opportunities, by:
- Maintaining access to our Employee Assistance Programme (Help at Hand)
- Offering a private healthcare scheme to all our employees
- Running our safety culture programme - Home Safe, Injury Free, Every Day
- Having at least one Mental Health First Contact at every location
- Providing support to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) through the Working Well Together forum
- Partnering with Mates in Mind, to support operational teams at our depots
- Utilising Employee Networks, for example Menopause and Me, and Mental Health
- Embedding performance and development focused conversations with our Always Aiming Higher appraisal approach
- Providing multiple career development pathways with our refreshed Learning & Development strategy
