Inclusion and belonging

Here at Karbon Homes, we’re renowned for our warmth and our welcoming, passionate and inclusive nature.

We promote equity, celebrate diversity and champion the rights of our customers and colleagues. We are promoting and embedding equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do – whether that’s building or adapting homes to make them accessible for all; making certain everyone can understand the communications we send; or working with local charities to ensure the voices of any underrepresented groups are heard – the list is endless.

Our inclusion and belonging approach

For us, inclusion and belonging is about providing the strong foundation for our colleagues, our customers and communities to reach their full potential and for our organisation to enable amazing to happen every day.

Our colleagues

We’ll value you for your skills, difference, and uniqueness. You’ll have an opportunity to share your knowledge and experiences and learn from others. You’ll be rewarded for the part you play in making Karbon Homes a great place to work.

Our customers

We’ll value your diversity and experiences and through
understanding and knowledge. We’ll aim to provide a personalised customer experience so that all customers feel that they belong in a Karbon home and within their community.

Our organisation

We’re ambitious and we’ll develop our offer and services using insights and collaboration. We’ll find bold, innovative solutions to complex challenges through our multi-agency partnerships. We’ll support growth and diversity within our geographical area.

Taking meaningful steps to ensure our customers and colleagues feel they belong, empowered to thrive and confident to use their voice is a shared commitment across our board. We’re pleased to introduce you to our board sponsors for equality, diversity and inclusion, Hanif Malik and Sarah Salter. Together, they have played a crucial role in shaping our approach and action plan. Find out more about Hanif and Sarah over on our board page.

Our commitments are the pillars of our strategic plan – ‘Everyone Matters’. Our inclusion and belonging commitments are:

At the heart of what we do: We’ll always act to influence and advocate for positive change.
Credible and meaningful: We’ll use data and insight to meaningfully inform our decisions and priorities.
Creating inclusive communities: We’ll develop support networks with those who share our commitment to reducing inequalities.
Developing diversity, creating fairness: We’ll continue to diversify to represent the communities we serve.
Thriving and belonging: We’ll create an environment and opportunities that help us to learn, feel supported and thrive.

We value diversity

Valuing diversity brings new perspectives, allows us to reach the widest pool of talent and ensures we understand and reflect the perspectives of our customers. We believe we can only be our best when we can be ourselves.

While we are very proud of our journey so far, we are by no means finished. We know that our board members and colleagues don’t reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. But what we can offer is a warm and welcoming place to work where we support you to be yourself.

So that’s where you come in. We want you to bring your diversity, all of the unique elements that make you who you are and the lived experience that helps us to bring the best we can to our customers.

How do we help

We want you to be your best through during your recruitment, it’s not a test! To support you we offer a range of reasonable adjustments, including:

Where we hold the interview
Questions ahead of the interview
Accepting your application in a different way
Providing the job role information in a different way
Extra time for assessments
Working with Access to Work
Accessible office equipment

A reasonable adjustment to a change to the way we using do things to remove any barriers you might be experiencing. If your needs aren’t covered, then let us know. We’ll work with you to get things right.

As you’d expect from a disability confident employer, we guarantee interviews for people with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If you’re a customer, you can get employability support from our Foundations for Life team and you’re also eligible for our New Start progamme.

Latest reports

"I am always treated extremely kindly by all of my colleagues and management alike, my department is very good at making everyone feel like they are respected and valued as an employee."

- Karbon Homes colleague

Get in touch

If you have any questions about a career at Karbon Homes, please drop an email to recruitment@karbonhomes.co.uk.