Applicants

Bath Spa Students Union is committed to recruiting, retaining and developing team members from a diverse range of backgrounds. We firmly believe that our team should include a variety of experience, personalities, skills and outlooks to enable us to truly represent the cultural diversity of Bath Spa students.

We are committed to ensuring that no one should receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, religion or belief, political belief, sexual orientation or age.

Bath Spa University Students’ Union assures you that any information you provide here will only be used to develop and monitor the effectiveness of our policies. Any information provided on this form will be treated as strictly confidential and will be used for statistical purposes only.  It will not be seen by anybody directly involved in any selection process.  No information will be published or used in any way which allows any individual to be identified.
Thank you for helping us deliver on our commitment to equality by undertaking this short survey. This will take approximately 5 minutes to complete.

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* 1. Gender
Concentrations of either men or women into certain jobs and the impact of family commitments are some reasons why men and women experience the workplace differently. Gender monitoring is key to ensuring that all employees have access to the same opportunities and the Students’ Union is committed to achieving this.
Would you describe yourself as:

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* 2. Is this the same gender that you were assigned at birth?

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* 3. Sexual Orientation
Monitoring sexual orientation in our team and applicants is a significant step towards acknowledging gay, lesbian and bisexual staff within the team and helps us to make sure our processes and practices are fair to all.
How would you describe your sexual orientation?

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* 4. Ethnicity
Ethnic origin is not about nationality, place of birth or citizenship. It is about the group to which you perceive you belong.  Your response will help us ensure that our policies and practices do not inadvertently discriminate against you because of your ethnicity.
How would you describe yourself?

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* 5. Disability
Do you consider yourself to have a disability or health condition?

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* 6. What is the effect or impact of your disability or health condition?

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* 7. Age
We all have an age.  We want to ensure that you are judged only by your abilities and not your age. Greater experience does not always associate itself with greater ability and neither does older age an inability to learn new skills.
By monitoring age we seek to uncover these and other assumptions in the way we work.
Which age catagory do you fall in to?

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* 8. Religion and Belief
Whilst faith and belief may be a a private matter, we need to ensure that we wouldn't programme events or opportunities at times that could disadvantage colleagues because of their faith.
Which of the following best describes your faith or belief?

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* 9. Are you married or in a civil partnership?

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* 10. Caring responsibilities
We recognise that we all have commitments outside from work and we have a range of policies designed to support everyone to achieve a work life balance. Your responses help us monitor the effectiveness of those policies.

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