Case study: Widening participation as a strategic approach initiative

March 24, 2021

Our Trust sits in the second most-deprived area of England, with low quality housing, a transient community, and poor levels of education.

We have developed a widening participation programme as part of our core strategy to attract a diverse workforce, capturing talent from the local community who have a wealth of transferable qualifications and skills.

By facilitating people from the local refugee and migrant population to return to a career in healthcare, and also engaging with young people and ex-offenders, the Trust and the community have reaped huge rewards, helping 300 people take steps to return to a medical workforce role. We have also placed four interns at the end of their learning disability internships into paid permanent work in catering, hospitality and finance in the Trust or other local Trusts and developed a workforce representative of the local area and patients, using diverse methods of recruitment and talent spotting.

You can learn more about this initiative by reading this case study.