SECTION 2: Kirklees context
Positive about disabled people - Two Ticks NHS Kirklees is an accredited ‘Two Ticks Symbol’ user. The symbol is a mark given by the Employment Service to employers who have agreed to take action to meet five commitments regarding the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees. Employers who use the symbol have agreed that they will take action on these five commitments: • to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for a job vacancy; • to make sure there is a mechanism in place to discuss with disabled employees what can be done to make sure the employee can develop and use their abilities; • to make every effort when employees become disabled to make sure they stay in employment; • to take action to make sure that all employees develop the appropriate level of disability awareness needed to fulfil these commitments, and • each year, to review the five commitments and what has been achieved, to plan ways to improve on them.
Conclusions This report sets out the workforce information for the period 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010. During this time a validation exercise of all staff has been carried out on the information held about them. One of the key aims of this exercise was to improve the monitoring information of staff. The data validation exercise has resulted in additional data and information about the majority of staff, including religion and belief and sexual orientation. However, we acknowledge that whilst there has been a significant improvement in data quality since 2008/09, some staff are still reluctant to disclose personal information. When comparing the ethnicity profile of the workforce to the general population, it is evident that the ethnicity profiles of staff are generally representative of the local population. However, it should be noted that the percentage of Asian/Asian British employees in Kirklees Community Health Services is under representative of the population of Kirklees. The data highlights that a high proportion of staff across both organisations are over 40 years of age and that we employ few staff under the age of 30 compared to the local workforce population. NHS Kirklees has a predominantly female workforce and a gender pay gap that currently stands at 37.7% across both organisations. The gender pay gap for provider services is 43.4% while the figure for commissioning services is 24.2%. Further analysis in the highest pay band (non AfC director, medical and dental staff) identifies that women are paid slightly more on average than men in commissioning services but the gender pay gap in the provider arm remains high at 28.2%.
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