Our Disability Affinity Group focuses on creating an inclusive and accessible workplace for all colleagues. Discussions regularly cover actions and initiatives designed to make sure everyone is supported and can effectively self-manage any ongoing disability and mental health-related wellbeing issues.
At Vanquis Banking Group, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and succeed. We want our people to feel confident they can talk openly about their disabilities and request the adjustments or support they need to carry out their roles effectively and achieve their full potential.
Focus areas for the Disability Affinity Group
- Ensure disability inclusion is on the Group Exco agenda.
- Ensure the working environment is accessible and inclusive for all.
- Ensure appropriate resources are in place to deliver our vision.
- Ensure colleagues and customers are adequately supported and able to effectively 'self-manage' ongoing workplace disability and mental health wellbeing issues.
Advocacy and extra support
The Disability Affinity Group has been in place since 2020 and has extensive experience helping with:
- Gathering ideas and requests from colleagues who want to link in with HR or management, helping to make sure their communication is concise and effective while capturing all the points they want to raise.
- Advocating for reasonable adjustments.
- Providing support in one-to-one scenarios, like accompanying colleagues to individual consultation meetings.
- Helping colleagues get help with advocacy where they may, for any reason, struggle or not be able to advocate for themselves.
The Disability Affinity Group has worked with the Business Disability Forum to complete the Disability Smart Audit. This has allowed it to identify areas for prioritisation and focus with a view to improving disability inclusion across the Banking Group.
We're a Disability Confident Committed Employer
We've signed up to the Government's Disability Confident Scheme for employers, which will help us to recruit, retain and develop disabled colleagues.
This includes people with long-term health and neurodiverse conditions. The Disability Confident Scheme was developed by businesses and disabled people. It's a voluntary scheme that provides access to guidance, self-assessments and resources to become a fully inclusive employer.
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