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Workers
Karey Wardhaugh
People Manager
Our “people first” ethos is at the centre of our approach We also rolled-out group life insurance and
as a business. The past year has seen us make critical illness insurance for all staff from day one
further improvements to our people offer, which in of employment. Beyond this, we maintained our
turn has been recognised by numerous awards and programme of quarterly practice wide social events
accolades. and regular team socials as well as opportunities to
get involved with social value activities using their
We understand that our team may need support Volunteering Day.
in various ways throughout their employment. We
ensure that our strategy recognises this and provides To ensure the professional development of our team
resources to help in a holistic way - supporting in the we continued our busy Continuing Professional
key areas of physical, mental and financial wellbeing - Development (CPD) programme, our mentoring
as well as supporting their ongoing development. programmes and started to roll out our new online
“Coaching Culture” platform.
During the year we sent out our annual ‘Reward &
Remuneration Survey’ to all staff to ask for their Finally, we completed our annual salary benchmarking
views on the benefits we offer. Following analysis, we exercise, uplifted salaries in line with inflation and
implemented enhanced maternity and paternity pay, published this to all staff to ensure transparency. We
free sanitary products and added further flexibility to also joined the Living Wage Foundation, as a sign of
our hybrid flexible working policy. our commitment to fair pay, and became a member of
the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter.
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