Test Valley an inclusive workplace
At Test Valley Council, we are committed to fostering a workplace that embodies our core values: Equity, Inclusion and Diversity, Accountability, Collaboration, Kindness, Authenticity, and Pride.
We employ a strong focus on equality, diversity, and inclusion, ensuring recruitment is diverse, fair, and open, and consider individuals’ contributions, regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief. We believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to flourish in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations, and the wider community.
We have an active EDI network, where everyone is encouraged to engage, the network shares experiences and insights and puts on a wide range of engagement and learning events encouraging people to broaden their understanding of the people they work alongside and communities they serve. The network supports services with looking at a wide range of perspectives in decision making enriching decisions made both in how we work internally as an organisation and externally with communities.
We encourage all our people to think in an inclusive way and to proactively collaborate, engage and learn from each other maximising the diversity of thought and experiences all our people bring. You can expect regularly within your employment to be involved in discussion groups and workshops sharing your views and feedback, this way we can not only continually improve our working environment but more importantly the difference we make to Test Valley as a place and the quality of life for our local communities.
Join us in creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. Apply today and be part of a team that takes pride in its work and in the community. We understand you maybe nervous about applying, if you share our purpose and possess most of the skills or experience outlined for the role, we encourage you to apply. We are looking to employ people with a wide range of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences as this diversity enables the broadest range of innovative thinking and supports us to maximise the impact we can have as an organisation on improving Test Valley as a place.
If you require some reasonable adjustments to be able to thrive at work, we encourage you to have an early conversation with us. As users of the Disability Confident Scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to thrive in their role, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us for any requests.
As an organisation that lives in an area where there are a high number of military families, we welcome applications from veterans, partners or wider members of the military. We support the local military community in a wide range of ways and have the defence employer recognition scheme silver status. As an employer we provide flexibility to support people from a wide range of backgrounds to participate in employment.
To support people to balance and manage their work and home lives, we offer a range of benefits (link) and flexible working options including hybrid working for office-based roles, where we this also aligns with our business needs. Services and teams that work in this agile way have a range of ways of working to ensure good teamwork and learning opportunities. It is usual for teams to come together on certain days in the week to work collaboratively face to face, as well as having the opportunity for working from home.