We are now a signatory of the Race at Work Charter

Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to announce that we have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. This significant step demonstrates our commitment to promoting equality and addressing the disparities that Black, Asian, Mixed-Race and other ethnically diverse individuals face in the workplace.

Ethnic minorities continue to face significant disparities in employment and career progression. The 2017 government-sponsored "Race in the Workplace: The McGregor-Smith Review" highlighted these ongoing challenges. By signing the Race at Work Charter, we are taking concrete actions to eliminate these barriers and ensure that our organisation is representative of British society today. 

The Trust has already taken several steps towards the seven key actions within the charter, and this includes:

Our Diversity Inclusion Champions programme (where a trained diversity champion sits on every interview panel for posts at Band 8a and above) demonstrates our commitment to ensuring fairness in recruitment, and there is a plan to expand this program to include more positions in the Trust. The Trust is committed to working with the ENRICH network to implement positive actions through our recruitment process and to fully embed EDI objectives in leaders' and managers' performance reviews. 

The network chair together with the network Executive Sponsor are working together through the Belonging Subgroup to integrate some of these actions into the Trust's initiatives and strategies. This will not only improve our efforts but also align them with the broader goals of the Trust, ensuring a more cohesive and impactful approach.

The Trust aims to make positive steps towards the remaining key actions, which include: 

We look forward to sharing more about our progress against the commitments in the charter.