The Be you at Bupa Employee Network is a key part of our strategy to build an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves. Work is better when we create a positive working environment and we want people to feel comfortable and free to bring their whole self to work.
Watch our video to find out more about the Be you at Bupa Network.
At Bupa we're driving inclusion together for a better world and we're proud to be included in the Inclusive Companies Top 50 UK Employers List 2023/24.
We embrace our differences knowing they make us stronger and help better reflect the needs of our customers and communities. This means creating and sustaining an inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong.
Our approach encompasses diversity in its broadest sense, from gender, sexuality and race, to social, educational and professional backgrounds, disability, religion, age, learning styles and personalities.
We believe that having varied perspectives promotes understanding and helps generate innovative ideas to solve the complex problems of a diverse and fast-changing world.
We lead our Inclusion & Diversity agenda through our global Inclusion Framework, which is focused on embedding inclusion into our culture.
On an annual basis we align both global and local goals to our three foundational elements: creating an inclusive culture, with inclusive leadership and inclusive practices.
We will achieve our ambition to be the most customer-centric healthcare company in the world because our people differentiate us.
creating a culture where everyone feels a sense of belonging and our people are able to bring their true selves to work and be their very best
visibly role modelling inclusive leadership, building diverse teams and creating safe environments in which our people can develop and grow.
mirroring the diversity of culture and heritage in our markets.
By fostering an inclusive culture, we create greater diversity among our workforce, which inspires innovation and creates products, services and frictionless experiences for our customers.
We are clear that no one should be excluded because of their age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marriage, pregnancy, and maternity, or other factors such as social background.
We recognise the importance of having an open dialogue with our people and we actively listen to questions, concerns, and ideas to foster an inclusive culture.
Through living our values, brave, caring, and responsible, we create an environment of psychological safety so our people have a voice, feel valued, and can be their true selves.
Inclusive culture in action
In the UK, we have been driving an Inclusive culture through campaigns like #BreaktheBias or Race Equality Week that explore topics such as gender, age, sexuality, faith, ethnicity, family and caring, helping to amplify the topic of inclusion and raising awareness.
We expect leaders to role-model and champion diversity and have explicitly built this into our leadership imperatives - the standards we hire leaders for, develop them to, and assess their performance against.
We encourage leaders to create and enable high-performing teams from diverse backgrounds and have mechanisms in place to support this from talent acquisition to succession planning to mentoring.
We recognise the need to continue to build a strong pipeline of female leaders, so we ensure leadership development is gender-balanced to support this aim.
We believe in women empowering other women with mentoring and sponsorship programs in place to support women in their leadership journey.
Inclusive leadership in action
In the UK, the ‘Bupa Belong’ program enables our leaders to manage inclusively and create a workplace where our people can be their whole selves.
We ensure we have fair hiring methods that eliminate any potential for bias.
We have policies and hybrid working to support our people to balance additional responsibilities and have a work-life balance they can thrive on.
We have programmes that bring in early career talent.
We measure our progress and use data to support our drive.
Inclusive practices in action
As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
As well as our own commitments to increasing representation of under-represented groups, we are signatories and members of organisations that help ensure that we are ambitious in our approach to inclusion and diversity.
They include the Women in Finance Charter which we signed in 2018 to improve gender balance.
Our UK Gender Pay Gap report outlines our performance and progress in increasing gender balance across all levels of the business with updates on the steps we're taking.
The Board also has a Board Diversity Policy which was last updated on 9 December 2020.
Bupa Global & UK is included in the Inclusive Companies Top 50 UK Employers List 2023/24 – the list acknowledges and ranks businesses which are most consistent throughout the whole tenure of their organisations and encompass all types of diversity. Find out more here.
We're also a certified Disability Confident Employer which means that we’re committed to increasing understanding of disability and inclusion and diversity in the workplace.
