Our commitment to staff

We aim to employ a workforce reflects the diverse community of Kent. The principles of tolerance, understanding and respect for others are central to what we believe. We recruit on merit and our equality and diversity policies and procedures aim to ensure that staff and job applicants will not be discriminated against on the grounds of social circumstances, gender, race, ethnic origin, disability, sexuality, religion or age.

Our staff and job applicants can be confident that we will:

• provide a safe and accessible working environment that values and respects the identity and culture of each individual and that is free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation
• provide fair access to training and development opportunities for all staff
• involve and communicate effectively with all staff to ensure that their views are heard
• • we work in partnership with our employee-lead staff groups for black and minority ethnic staff; lesbian; gay; bisexual and transgender staff; disabled staff and younger staff - these groups provide a voice and support for their members and ensure our policies and procedures meet the needs of all staff
• sign up to the commitments of the ' Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People Symbol', which demonstrates that we are serious about providing employment opportunities for disabled people.