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Freedom of Information request Workforce Disability Equality Standard

Response published: 7 May 2026
Corporate Governance | HR

FOI Request

Hi Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS team, I was reading your Annual Equalities Report 2023–24. You note that the trust publishes annual Workforce Disability Equality Standard action plans, and your disability action plan says the 2021–26 People Strategy agreed actions to improve disability recruitment. How do you evidence, at the vacancy level before shortlisting, where each role was promoted and what engagement it generated with disabled candidates and communities you are trying to reach? Disability Network helps employers build that advert stage record at vacancy level. That gives HR clearer evidence if the role is questioned later. I can send a short overview if useful. Kind regards,

FOI Response

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 120-2026

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.

You asked:

You note that the trust publishes annual Workforce Disability Equality Standard action plans, and your disability action plan says the 2021–26 People Strategy agreed actions to improve disability recruitment.

  • How do you evidence, at the vacancy level before shortlisting, where each role was promoted and what engagement it generated with disabled candidates and communities you are trying to reach?

Our response:

We use Trac, an online recruitment management system for our roles. Where we are advertising jobs externally, Trac posts them to sites including NHS Jobs, our website, Job Centre ,healthjobsuk.com, Indeed and LinkedIn. We also have Trust Facebook accounts where roles are posted. On occasion, we will also use additional targeted advertising for specific posts.

Candidates are asked to state where they saw the advert at application and we monitor this with reporting identifying the source of the applications alongside EDI data.

Next steps:

Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:

Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk

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