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Opera North Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Survey  2022 (For Applicants)

Private and Confidential

Introduction
Opera North encourage and welcome applications from candidates regardless of ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, age, religious belief or any other irrelevant factor. To support this commitment and to help us develop our policies and procedures, we ask all job applicants to complete this survey, by either writing in the text box provided or choosing the appropriate answer.  Any information you provide will be treated as strictly confidential, be held separately from the application form and will only be used for anonymous monitoring purposes.  It will not be used at any stage of the selection process.  Please note all questions are optional and we respect your right not to provide all or some of the information requested, but the more information that is supplied, the more effective our monitoring will be.
Thank you for your co-operation.
 
1.Which vacancy are you applying for?(Required.)
2.What is your gender?
3.Which of the following best describes your sexual orientation?
4.What is your age group?
5.Which ethnic group do you belong to?
6.Do you consider yourself to have a disability, long term illness or health condition that might affect your ability to carry out normal daily activities on an equal basis with others?
7.What is your religion or belief?
8.Which of the following occupations best describe the occupation of the main/highest income earner in your household when you were 14 years old?

The following definitions and examples come from the ACE:

Modern Professional Occupations
e.g. Teacher/lecturer, nurse, physiotherapist, social worker, welfare officer, actor, artist, musician, police officer (sergeant or above), software designer

Clerical and Intermediate Occupations
e.g. secretary, personal assistant, clerical worker, office clerk, call centre agent, nursing auxiliary, nursery nurse

Senior Managers and Administrators
Usually responsible for planning, organising and co-ordinating work for finance such as finance managers, chief executives etc.

Technical and Craft Occupations
e.g. motor mechanic, fitter, inspector, plumber, printer, tool maker, electrician, gardener, train driver

Semi-Routine Manual and Service Occupations
e.g. postal worker, machine operative, security guard, caretaker, farm worker, catering assistant, receptionist, sales assistant

Routine Manual and Service Occupations
e.g. HGV driver, van driver, cleaner, porter, packer, sewing machinist, messenger, labourer, waiter/waitress, bar staff

Middle or Junior Managers
e.g. office manager, retail manager, bank manager, restaurant manager, warehouse manager, publican

Traditional Professional Occupations
e.g. solicitor, accountant, medical practitioner, scientist, civil/mechanical engineer

Short Term Unemployed
Claimed Jobseeker’s Allowance or earlier unemployment benefit for a year or less

Long Term Unemployed
Claimed Jobseeker’s Allowance or earlier unemployment benefit for more than a year

Retired

Not applicable

Don’t know

Prefer not to say

Other – please specify

9.How did you hear of this vacancy?