Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer

Job Title: Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Officer

Hours: Full time, permanent

Location: Hybrid

Salary: £25,000

About the role:

The role is responsible for promoting and championing equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for our residents and colleagues and supporting the EDI Manager with implementing the overall EDI strategy in line with the wider business plan.

This is key to driving Anchor’s position as market leader in housing and care for older people.

As the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer, you will be responsible for:

• researching and promote diversity initiatives and sharing best practice
• providing advice, guidance and support on equality and diversity issues
• maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of anti-discriminatory legislation
• translating equality legislation into practice to ensure organisations meet statutory requirements
• assisting with policy implementation and review
• report on EDI initiatives and identify opportunities for improvement prepare and deliver
• working with the Communications team to ensure relevant, engaging, and inspiring content is developed for internal and external communications channels, including identifying key dates / events throughout the year to support and activity to implement

About you:

You will:

• Have previous experience of working with a fast-paced environment and a passion for EDI
• Have experience of support the delivery of projects within timescales and budgets
• Have experience of developing and delivering communication plans
• Have the ability to challenge other people to think about the customer’s needs by ‘putting themselves in their shoes’.
• Be confident to take personal responsibility and ownership for meeting customer needs and seeing things through to a satisfactory conclusion.

Hundreds of talented professionals with a range of specialist skills and experience based in our Bradford and London offices make up our Support Services. While we all do very different things, we work towards the same goal of improving the lives of the older people who live with us. 

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to have an LGBT+ resident group, and also BAME, LGBT+ and Disabled colleague networks. These work closely with the organisation to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We recruit, train and promote without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or other protected status. One of our values is ‘respect’, therefore we do not accept harassment or discrimination from any colleague, resident or third party.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated rewards website  

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a member of Inclusive Employers, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant and HouseProud Pledge schemes.