2024/2025 LTHT Workforce Equality Priorities
Over the next year, we want to continue sharing and developing measures which build the LTHT culture of Conscious Inclusion; where staff feel they belong, are empowered to use their voice, share their experiences, and feel safe to raise concerns and challenge poor workplace behaviours in the knowledge they will be listened to.
To enable this, we will prioritise the actions below:
- Embed the Inclusive Recruitment Practices, underpinned by the LTHT Recruitment and Selection Policy and Inclusive Recruitment Training packages.
- Progress the use of Equality Impact Assessments as ‘Business as Usual’ practice when individuals, teams and Trust Board are developing and reviewing plans, policies and procedures, introducing measures and making key decisions.
- Design standard metrics which enable the health inequalities of our workforce to be articulated and where necessary actions to address implemented.
- Improve the quality of our workforce data captured through ESR (electronic staff record) across all protected characteristics.
- Build on our allyship model, so all staff at LTHT feel empowered to call out behaviours which are not inclusive nor reflect the Leeds Way and are staff are equipped and confident to take real time action to address.
- Build the capability of our managers to confidently discuss and address areas supporting conscious inclusion with their teams.
- Strengthen the visibility of both the role our Equality Staff Networks and EDI Champions have, and the contribution both make to advancing the Trusts ambition to be fully inclusive.
- Work with colleagues across the city and the region to establish the West Yorkshire Equality Strategy and collaborate in the sharing of data and good practice initiatives.
View our EDI Action Plan
Our latest reported data shows that whilst LTHT has made improvements in some areas of our workforce equality measures, there are still many improvements to be made.
This year, we are publishing one document sharing all our combined EDI Workforce measures for 2024.
View our LTHT EDI Metrics.