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Everyone matters

Help for applicants

Specialist resources

Vercida: Vercida is a careers site that only works with employers committed to Values, Equality, Respect, Culture, Inclusion, Diversity, Accessibility (VERCIDA).
Gap Jumpers: Blind auditioning, helping to remove bias from assessment.
Business in the Community: Helping to create a skilled, inclusive workforce today and for the future.
Officers Association (Veterans and Reservists): Employment support for Veterans.
Apprenticeships for young people: More detail on our apprenticeships and graduate programmes.

Disability-related help

Disability rights UK: Careers and work advice for disabled people.
Evenbreak: UK’s most accessible job board for disabled candidates.
Business disability forum: A not-for-profit membership organisation that makes it easier and more rewarding to do business with and employ disabled people.
Purple space: Supporting staff disability networks.
RIDI: Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative.

HS2 are a Disability Confident Leader employer and we welcome applications from applicants with a disability.

Additional resources

TSSA.org: Our Union
Stonewall LGBTQ+: Working with institutions to create inclusive and accepting cultures for lesbian, gay, bi and trans people.
ENEI: UK’s leading employer network covering all aspects of equality and inclusion issues in the workplace.
WISE Campaign: WISE enables and energises people in business, industry and education to increase the participation, contribution and success of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Women in Rail: Improving diversity in the UK rail industry through providing networking opportunities and support for all women within the sector.
Big Rail Diversity Challenge: This bespoke event, a cross between “It’s a Knockout” and “Krypton Factor”, sees gender balanced teams compete in physical and mental challenges over the course of the day.
MSDUK: Unlocking innovation through diversity.

Our internal employee networks

To support our employees, we have a number of supportive internal employee networks in place.

Employee networks allow those interested in various aspects of equality, diversity & inclusion to participate to the development of equality, diversity & inclusion within the organisation. The objective of these networks is to:

Promote activities which support the HS2 equality, diversity & inclusion policy;
provide feedback on consultation processes and HS2 policies;
encourage engagement with equality, diversity & inclusion across all functions of HS2 Ltd;
deliver activities aligned to the key goals of the HS2 equality, diversity & inclusion strategy; and
provide support to staff groups within HS2.