Innovations in Inclusive Recruitment: Networking Event - North East and Yorkshire Region

27 March 2025 9:30am – 3:00pmGMT (+00:00)
Location TBC

Face-to-Face Networking Event Northeast and Yorkshire Region

Inclusive Recruitment - Supporting Talented People within our Community into Good Work Opportunities

Venue: Doncaster College, South Yorkshire

The Hub, Chappell Drive, Doncaster DN1 2RF

We would like to invite you to a network event to share good practice on inclusive recruitment, to support widening access into employment. Our hope is that this networking event will broaden support to employers and organisations, to help people get into and stay in work from your local communities, for health and social care settings, through increasing inclusive recruitment processes and approaches and offering good work and health support.

The day will include:

  • Developing a collective voice to improve inclusive recruitment, by learning from innovation in HR&OD across our region
  • Networking to help more people get into employment and succeed in work
  • Exploring how to support people with specific needs better, and what is involved in best practice and innovation
  • Listening to people who have experienced barriers into employment, in order to limit obstacles for people in our communities who want to get into work

Speakers will include:

  • NHS England overview of the NHS's role as inclusive employers and corporate parents in their communities
  • Partnership working between DWP and Doncaster and Bassetlaw Foundation Trust
  • Employment is for Everyone in South Yorkshire - Tools to help with inclusive recruitment, and learn more about other employers leading the way to be more inclusive
  • Barnsley Council's inclusive employment  and opportunities approach
  • Understanding the importance of support and partnership working - The Kings Trust in Barnsley
  • West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership and Touchstone - How to make changes to overcome barriers to employment - Inclusive Recruitment Project

There will be facilitated workshops where outcomes will provide help for health and social care employers looking for solutions and partnerships to help people succeed into pre-employment and employment opportunities.

This event is best for:

  • Health and social care employers with responsibility for workforce and HR
  • DWP colleagues, such as employer engagement leaders
  • Workforce leads responsible for improving inclusive recruitment

Organised by a partnership working between South Yorkshire ICB, NHS England, DWP and Employment is for Everyone.

Registration will commence at 09:30, the event will begin at 10:00 and finish at 15:00. More information will follow once you have registered for the event.

 

Questions about this event?

Name: Juliet McGilligan

Email: juliet.mcgilligan@nhs.net

Telephone: 07585121155

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