Purpose: To promote allied health professional roles with equality, diversity and inclusion at its heart. We are aware of the data and experiences of AHP colleagues with protected characteristics and wanted to ensure we represent the diversity within our professions. An important element of making our workforce more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, is to ensure there are role models for school age children to aspire to.
The Aspiring Allies Careers Promotion Campaign includes a website: www.aspiringallies.co.uk and brochure (Aspiring-Allies-1.pdf) and social media (Twitter: @AlliesAspiring and Instagram @Aspiring_Allies) .
The website includes a ‘Find your AHP’ quiz which was designed by Occupational Therapy students using the ‘Interest Checklist’ as a starting point, role descriptions and importantly an ‘inspirational stories’ section which promotes role model experiences of finding, studying, working and developing within their professions.
Purpose: To promote allied health professional roles with equality, diversity and inclusion at its heart. To provide equitable access to work experience to support applications onto AHP University courses and Apprenticeships.
Purpose: To establish a network of allied health professionals passionate about promoting their profession and ensuring that this network is representative of the population we serve in West Yorkshire. To link with careers promotion programmes within each Place so that we can in-reach into schools and career events.
Purpose: As a result of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion project within the West Yorkshire AHP Faculty and the need to increase cultural competency of our workforce to support our colleagues and service users, it was highlighted that there is no central resource for Ramadan and Diet. The attached resource on the BDA website (Ramadan and diet | British Dietetic Association (BDA)) has been developed to fill this gap.
Purpose: Following the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion project within the West Yorkshire AHP Faculty, it was highlighted that significant improvements could be made to make recruitment processes more inclusion. The attached resource has been developed by Freya Sledding from Airedale and shared across the AHP Faculty.
Diversity and Inclusion best practice guide to recruitment (pdf)
