Kaleidoscope Scheme – The Group's Equality and Diversity Scheme
“Access for all” 
Why the Kaleidoscope Scheme?
Kaleidoscopes are made up of different shapes, which are all sizes and colours and come together to form a constantly changing group of bright or interesting objects.
EMH as a successful business, service provider and employer needs to recognise the differences there are in the communities we work in, make adjustments to its ways of working and ensuring that no individual or group is disadvantaged or treated unfairly.
The Kaleidoscope Scheme aims to define the diverse range of people and needs we serve and put in place policies and procedures to ensure that we monitor how we work, eliminate discrimination and promote equality of opportunity.
We aim to provide a high standard of service, which is sensitive to difference in needs, language or culture.
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Employment Provision
The Association seeks to recruit people with appropriate skills or potential to meet the requirements of posts falling vacant within the Association.
Vacancies will be widely advertised and applications from all sections of the community will be welcomed. No applicant will be treated less favourably because of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or age.
The Association will take positive steps to ensure details of its employment opportunities are accessible to ethnic minority groups. This will involve, where appropriate, liaison with representative organisations within the ethnic population and circulation of job advertisements and translated documents to those groups.
The Association will consider providing flexibility in working hours, including ‘job share’ for new and existing employees provided always that this would not be to the detriment of the organisation and the customers it serves.
A questionnaire on race, gender and disability will be included for monitoring purposes with each application form.
A copy of the Equal Opportunities Policy will initially be sent in the induction pack for all new colleagues. Additionally, the line Manager, as part of the induction process, will ensure that a reasonable level of understanding of Equality and Diversity issues exists and that the Association’s obligations under the law and the requirements of this policy are fully understood.