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Every June, Pride month serves as a unified opportunity to support, celebrate, and commemorate the LGBTQ+ community. Anchor has lots planned this year to centre stories and experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals from a panel event where colleagues can share their stories, to coffee mornings with residents as guest speakers. We'll also finish the month off with a 'Wear Your Colours' Day to encourage everyone to think about what Pride means to them. Looking ahead, Anchor will also be at Leeds Pride in August to support our colleagues and residents who identify as LGBTQ+ and make sure that we continue to be a safe and supportive place to live and work for everyone all year round.
Have you ever wondered why companies, like Anchor, ask for information about your ethnicity, gender, disability status etc. at application? It’s all for a great reason! Anchor is a proud Inclusive Employer, we have a commitment to ensuring equal opportunities for all across our organisation. By gathering this data at application stage we can not only arrange any reasonable adjustments to be made for interview but we can also monitor how representative our applications are and where we need to focus to attract underrepresented groups too. Sometimes we get naturally suspicious about giving out data and what it will be used for, but this information is personal and confidential – it is never used to single an individual out, but rather to give insight into who we attract to work with us so we can make our recruitment process as fair and inclusive as possible.
Anchor joins over 600 responsible businesses in becoming a member of Business in the Community
Did you know it takes 20 minutes to build a rapport with a stranger? That’s why it’s important during interviews that you create a two-way dialogue with the interviewer quickly. For our final Ask the Expert in the series, we spoke with Anchor’s Resourcing Manager Euan who gave us the low down on how to nail the interview.
Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of care and housing for older people, completes latest expansion with a further 11 residential care homes...and over 500 new colleagues!
Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of care and housing for older people, announces expansion. Anchor has exchanged contracts to further expand its care home portfolio with the acquisition of the entire share capital of Halcyon Care Homes Topco Limited. The 11 purpose built residential care homes, two of which are currently in development, are located in the East Midlands and the South of England - and will bring the total number of care homes operated by Anchor to 125.
Last week we celebrated our third annual Anchor Apprenticeship Awards which feature two categories open to anyone working at Anchor, studying towards or recently completed an apprenticeship, all are eligible to apply.
As an inclusive employer, Anchor is proud to celebrate Disability Pride Month this month. Led by our fantastic enABLE Network, we’ll be sharing colleague stories internally, encouraging discussions around how to be an ally and raising awareness of different types of disabilities colleagues at Anchor have.
Anchor demonstrates commitment to care staff through real living wage. Providing a high quality service to its residents is an important part of Anchor’s proposition, particularly as the cost of living and immediate challenges being faced by employees become more acute. More than this, the business is looking to grow, and in order to do so healthily it recognises the importance of caring for its staff. Kate Smith, executive director of business services at Anchor, says: “We’re committed to providing competitive rates of pay, an excellent range of benefits and outstanding opportunities to develop careers in a hugely fulfilling sector. We recognise that our achievements would not be possible without the efforts of our skilled and dedicated colleagues.”
Anchor announces the appointment of Sarah Jones as Chief Executive from 1 August 2022. It follows Jane Ashcroft’s decision to step down from the role at England’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people. Sarah is currently Anchor’s Chief Financial Officer.
