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Ageism, also called age discrimination, is when you are treated unfavourably because of your age.

Under the Equality Act, you are protected from age discrimination in all aspects of your employment at Derian House including recruitment, employment terms and conditions, promotions and transfers and trainings. The Equality Act protects you from direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation.

So how do we ensure we do not discriminate against age?

Recruitment – When advertising a job role, we do not include age limits, and we avoid using words which could suggest we are looking for applicants from a particular age group – for example, by using terms such as ‘10 years’ experience’ or ‘enthusiastic young people’. We also don’t ask for dates of birth on any application document until the point when an offer has been made and we are compiling the candidates full personal details.

Terms and Conditions – Our terms and condition remain standardised regardless of age, gender or any other factor. Certain aspects of someone’s terms and conditions may change over time as a reward for length of service (for example annual leave). However, all staff begin employment on the same contract dependant on your area of work.

Promotions and training – With a key value to nurture and develop our people we ensure that all staff receive person centred development. Learning opportunities are offered to all staff based upon developmental need or talent management and we ensure that all staff have the ability to apply for training funding regardless of department. If you are unsure on how to apply for funding, please speak to your line manager of HR. Internal Promotions are always based upon merit and are earnt and are another way in which we nurture and develop our people. We have a clear policy on where there is more than one candidate that meets the criteria for a proposed role, we advertise.

At Derian House we have zero tolerance on any kind of discrimination. If you feel you or someone you work with is a victim of discrimination, please speak to the HR department.