HCHA is a Mindful and Disability Confident Employer
This means we are committed to:
Positive Attitudes
Challenging bias and stigma around mental health and disability.
Understanding
Understanding diversity and disability.
Removing barriers
Removing barriers for disabled people with long-term health conditions to access employment opportunities.
Support
Support disabled people to fulfil their potential.
HCHA is also a recognised subscriber of the Mindful Employer Charter.
This means we made a public declaration of our ambition to support the mental health and wellbeing of our staff by agreeing to uphold the following values:
Support the Individual
To provide non-judgemental and proactive support to staff with experience of mental ill-health.
No Assumptions
To avoid making assumptions about a person with a mental health condition and their ability to work.
Positive
To be positive and enabling toward all employees and applicants with a mental health condition.
Support Managers
To support line managers in managing mental health in the workplace.
Fair Recruitment
To ensure the fair recruitment of staff in accordance with the Equality Act (2010).
No Discrimination
To make it clear that people who have experience of mental ill-health will not be discriminated against.
