Wellbeing
We will strive to ensure that working at CUH will positively impact on our health, safety and wellbeing.
Being neurodiverse can often mean trying to fit into a way of working that doesn’t suit you, which can have a significant impact on physical and mental wellbeing over time.
A better understanding of neurodiversity, and developing workplaces that work for neurodiverse people, supports our neurodiverse staff to stay healthy and well.
Resourced
We will invest to ensure that we are well staffed, with a vacancy rate of 5% or less across all staff groups.
Our neurodiverse staff bring a huge range of talents and strengths and we want to do all we can to keep them in the CUH family.
Ambition
We will support individual and collective ambition through investment in education, learning and development and new ways of working.
People with a neurodifference often think differently, are able to solve problems in innovative ways and come up with great ideas to improve how we do things. Tapping into this has huge potential for developing new ways of working.
Inclusion
We will drive out inequality, recognising that we are stronger as an organisation which values difference and inclusion.
Our neurodiverse staff tell us that we don’t always get it right when it comes to inclusion and making the most of people’s differences. People perform at their best when they really feel that they belong and are valued by their teams, managers and the organisation.
Relationships
Relationships are at the heart of our work; we will value compassionate and enabling working relationships, we will listen to each other, support decision making and appreciate experience and expertise.
Relationships are vital to how we experience and feel about work.
Opening up conversations about neurodiversity, taking a compassionate interest in others and creating a shared understanding of an individual’s and team’s experiences and strengths lays the foundation for effective working relationships where everyone feels supported and can perform at their best.