All applicants will be treated equally. No person applying for a job, or for contracts within Progress Housing Group, will be treated less favourably than any other person or group of persons because of their race, colour, ethnic or national origin or because of their beliefs, gender, sexuality, disability or age.
We ask people applying for employment to provide information that will help us monitor our position as an equal opportunities employer. This information is recorded separately to uphold confidentiality. We monitor and take action to put right any imbalances in our policies and practices.
Progress Housing Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such will:
- Advertise jobs in such a way as to encourage applications from all parts of the community
- Regularly review and monitor our recruitment and selection policy to ensure that no job applicant or employee is treated less favourably than another. The results of the monitoring are reported to the board of management on a quarterly basis
- Monitor training to ensure that all employees receive quality of opportunity and where appropriate will provide staff from minority groups with special training facilities to enable them to compete or qualify for positions with Progress Housing Group
- Expect all employees to ensure that their personal conduct within the Group reflects the equal opportunities policy
- Encourage staff to develop awareness of the issues and training is provided
- Progress Housing Group values its employees and has been awarded the Investor in People standard
If you have a disability
You are not required to inform us whether you consider yourself to have a disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. If, however, you require assistance with any aspect of our recruitment process, we will be happy to assist you as much as we can.
If you are concerned that you may be unable to meet some of the job requirements because of a disability, please address this in your application. If you meet all other criteria, you will be shortlisted and we will explore with you if there are any ways the post can be reasonably adjusted.
As part of our commitment to being ‘Positive about Disabled People’, we guarantee to interview all applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for a job vacancy and to consider them on their abilities.
For more information about this, you can call the Disability Rights Commission on 08457 622 633 or visit their website at www.drc-gb.org
