Improving Working Lives - Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

What is Equality and Diversity? Meeting the Challenge Discrimination Legislation and Equality Disability & Gender Equality Scheme Working in Partnership with the PCT and Community Interpreting and Translation Services/Telephone Lines Staff Networks Race Equality Schemes

Improving Working Lives Explained

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust The Improving Working Lives (IWL) standard enables NHS staff to measure their employer's human resources management. It sets the benchmarks by which organisations will create flexible working environments that promote staff welfare and development. Recognising that investment in human resources can improve patient care, the IWL Standard sets out what NHS organisations need to do to achieve this.

The Standard is intended to ensure that NHS organisations can demonstrate commitment to their staff by offering employment practices such as:

Flexible working (including options for flexible retirement)
Valuing equality and diversity
Access to childcare and carer support
Tackling discrimination, harassment and bullying in the workplace
Training and development
Health in Work
Staff involvement and communication

If you would like more information on IWL please contact the HR Department.

Equality and Diversity Training

All staff at the Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust attend a mandatory training session on Equality and Diversity to raise awareness of the issues and to ensure our staff are committed to these principles and work in accordance with them.

The Trust also provides seminars to explore the needs of disabled people with physical and sensory impairments, learning disability and perinatal mental health issues. Disabled people are encouraged to participate in the above training.