Equal opportunities monitoring form

Headway is committed to eliminating discrimination in employment practices.  It is the organisation’s aim to select on the basis of suitability and capability to do the job and to ensure all candidates are treated solely on the grounds of merit without discrimination because of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.  Please assist us to monitor our Equal Opportunity Policy, by completing the details requested below. This form is intended to help us maintain equal opportunities best practice and identify barriers to workforce equality and diversity. 

Please complete this form and return it with your application. The form will be separated from your application on receipt. The information on this form will be used for monitoring purposes only and will play no part in the recruitment process.

All questions are optional. You are not obliged to answer any of these questions but the more information you supply, the more effective our monitoring will be. All information supplied will be treated in the strictest confidence. It will not be placed on your personnel file.










Disability

The Equality Act 2010 defines a disability as a "physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities". An effect is long-term if it has lasted, or is likely to last, more than 12 months.