You can expect to be part of a workplace that celebrates and values your views, ideas and experience. From being a member of one of our amazing people-led networks, sharing your experiences to help us all be more informed, through to joining one of our listening sessions with Senior Leaders to foster an inclusive workplace.
We want you to lift everyone up. Work as part of a team and live Our behaviours every day, always acting with integrity, and bringing your unique qualities and voice to help us grow diversity of thought, to deliver smarter solutions for our customers and our people.
“When I'm able to bring my true self to work, it enhances my ability to empathise with the diverse range of customers we serve”
Laura McLean
Be yourself ambassador
We’re passionate about helping to improve Social Mobility. Our Social Mobility Strategy focuses on advocating for and improving outcomes for our people, customers, and communities. Our membership, and being a Founder Partner, of Progress Together is a key enabler of our Social Mobility strategy. Launched as part of a government commissioned taskforce, it is the first of its kind in the Financial Services Sector focusing on progression, retention, and socio-economic diversity. Through this membership, we demonstrate our commitment to leading and collaborating with others, using our influence to improve Social Mobility across the UK and within Financial Services.
Our commitment to signing the HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter supports our existing gender equality strategy and demonstrates our commitment to do more. We have set an ambitious 50% (+/- 10%) target (the variation of +/- 10% to reflect the timescale, the desire to develop and retain the right internal talent, and the existing availability of senior women in the financial services industry).
All businesses with more than 250 employees are expected to report annually on gender pay and bonus gaps. In the below reports we provide detail on the figures and the ways in which we are addressing positive change. As part of our commitment to transparency in 2020, Santander UK voluntarily disclosed our ethnicity pay gap for the first time, details of which are included in the report.
Our employee-led networks champion and support colleagues through mentoring programmes, workshops and speaker events.
Is an inclusive community for LGBTQ+ colleagues and allies to share information, personal experiences, hold discussions and provide support.
Provides colleagues who are either directly or indirectly affected by disability with a platform to share, learn, discuss and support.
Celebrates and embraces cultural differences from race, belief, traditions, heritage and custom.
Encourages positive mental wellbeing and supports colleagues by promoting awareness, openness and understanding.
is a place for ex-military employees, reservists, employees with friends and family in the military and others who support the military to share, discuss and support one another.
Is for fathers, mothers, step-parents, parents through fostering, or adoption or surrogacy, and grandparents as well as those who are caring for someone unable to look after themselves.
Seeks to create a level playing field to enable all colleagues and those in our communities to achieve their full potential regardless of their background or social class.
Encourages a balanced representation of women in Santander and help female colleagues feel more empowered to fulfil their true potential.
We know it’s our people who make us who we are. We believe that having a diverse range of backgrounds and perspectives makes us stronger and we aim to reflect and celebrate diversity in our workplace by creating a inclusive culture.
It’s taken half a century for Manoj Masuria to discover he is autistic and, with the support of his manager, he’s on a mission to help others improve their understanding of neurodiversity.