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Measuring up: your community and your workforce
This tool has been developed to help you understand the different community groups in your local population, and understand how you can better engage with, recruit and retain people from these groups. It will compare your workforce data to your local population, to help you identify groups that might be underrepresented in your workforce.
Before you get started
The tool will provide a comparative analysis for disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity. It also provides information on wider groups in your local area such as carers, veterans and care leavers, which you could potentially engage with to increase your workforce supply.
- Before you use the tool, we suggest having your workforce data to hand.
- Download our data capture sheet to collate your data, ready for comparison.
- Make your way through the tool, view your comparative data and the data from wider community groups.
- Once you have your results, read the resources and guidance to help you engage with potential candidates in your local area.
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Disclaimer: data used
- To match the ethnicity categories used in your workforce data and ONS, you will need to group some of your data. We have provided a data capture sheet to help achieve a successful comparison. For example, the ‘white British’ input box in the tool must include individuals identified as white English, white Scottish, white Welsh, white Cornish, white Northern Irish.
- This digital tool has been developed in line with available datasets from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), NOMIS (National Online Manpower Information System) and the 2011 Census. Some of the available datasets do not fully reflect the societal changes around the understanding of gender and sexual orientation. For example, national data collection for gender classification is limited to ‘male’ and ‘female’. Potentially, these classifications would only offer individuals who do not identify with either ‘male’ or ‘female’ to choose ‘unknown’ or ‘undisclosed’ options. For the purposes of comparison, the tool has had to reflect the limits of the available datasets.
- It is crucial to consider those not represented in the categories provided, to ensure your attraction, recruitment and retention behaviours are as inclusive and open as possible.
- By using this tool you agree that NHS Employers, part of the NHS Confederation, shall not be liable for any loss or damage at all arising from the tool, use of the tool or data, or from any content or data provided by or sourced from third parties.