Bradford Hospitals Wins ENEI Representative Workforce Award

Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:00

Bradford Teaching Hospitals were among the organisations awarded for their inclusive and equal workplace practices at the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (ENEI) Awards.

The awards are designed to acknowledge and celebrate organisations with a commitment to good practice above and beyond legal compliance, using innovative approaches to inspire other employers.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals won the Representative Workforce Award while its Project Search scheme, which aims to help students with learning difficulties into employment, was highly commended in the Community Impact Award.

Director for Human Resources, Patricia Campbell, said: “In March 2015, 24.7% of our workforce and 7.6% of senior managers were from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds.

“We are determined to turn the rhetoric of ‘having a workforce that reflects the local population’ into reality and have re-focused our efforts to ensure that our employment position of BME staff, in relation to overall staffing, senior managers, promotion and staff turnover, is truly representative of our community here in Bradford.

“Should we maintain our current levels of progress, we will reach the 35% targets of having a workforce and senior management which reflects the local population by September 2025.”

In the past 12 months, the Trust has increased its overall BME workforce by over 1.5% to 26.8%. We have also increased our BME senior managers by 2.5%.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals is one of the district’s largest employers and has around 5,500 staff working across Bradford Royal Infirmary, St. Luke’s Hospital and the three Community Hospitals at Westwood Park, Westbourne Green, and Eccleshill. It was one of the first hospital groups to be granted Foundation Trust status in 2004.

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