We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and eradicating discrimination and disadvantage. We want to deliver quality services fairly and equally to all sections of the community.
“Being able to work for such a supportive employer and to deliver high quality services to our residents, visitors and communities, I can honestly say that I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.” – Cambridge City Council employee
We work to ensure that our employment policies and procedures are equitable and that our workforce reflects the wider composition of the community.
We aim to:
- Promote equality and tolerance, and respect, value and celebrate diversity
- Challenge and eradicate prejudice and discrimination
- Provide responsive, sensitive and accessible services and information
- Ensure our workforce reflects the city’s diverse population
- Develop a positive, supportive and antidiscriminatory working environment for our staff
We are committed to a policy of equality of opportunity in employment. We hire people only because their abilities and merits are most suitable for the requirements of the job.
We aim to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
“Though I travel to work from where I live, I don’t have to travel to the office every working day. My role allows for some flexibility with the ability to work from home and come to the office.” – Cambridge City Council employee
Accreditation and initiatives
We are an accredited Disability Confident employer and are committed to developing the full potential of our staff.
By working together with Diversity Jobs Group, we hope to engage and attract talent from marginalised and underrepresented communities. This partnership also means we can provide jobseekers with assurances that we wholeheartedly embrace equality, diversity, inclusion, and belonging as part of wider communities that are supportive of growing representation.
We have also partnered with Working Families, the UK’s national charity for working parents and carers.
We want to create an environment that celebrates and embraces difference, enables a sense of belonging and makes sure that all our staff are able to bring their authentic selves to work.
In 2023 we received a Bronze Award as part of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion’s Talent, Inclusion and Diversity Evaluation.
We were awarded a Silver Award in the 2022 Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, the Armed Forces Covenant. This is a public pledge demonstrating our support for the armed forces community. We promote understanding and awareness and highlight our recruitment opportunities to armed forces family members and ex-military personnel.
We recommend that you visit Safer Jobs, a non-profit, joint industry and law enforcement organisation working to combat job scams, to promote good recruitment practice.
