NWJCC Team Awarded Silver Merit by Diverse Cymru

The NWJCC Team has continued its work to establish a culturally competent work environment for everyone by refreshing a submission for the new organisation since being established in April 2024.

This effort has been recognised with the Silver Merit Award from Diverse Cymru’s Cultural Competence Certification Scheme, demonstrating the NWJCC’s commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Stacey Taylor, Interim Chief Commissioner, reaffirmed this commitment to creating a workplace that reflects the patients and communities the NWJCC serves through commissioning. 

The Cultural Competence Certification Scheme provides a structured framework for organisations to continuously improve practices that support people facing inequality or discrimination due to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Diverse Cymru’s multi-award-winning Cultural Competence Certification Scheme helps ensure that teams are diverse, inclusive, and supportive, allowing everyone to be their authentic selves at work. This recognition reflects NWJCC’s dedication to these values.

By applying these principles in their workplace, the NWJCC Team is better equipped to commission services that meet the needs of diverse communities throughout Wales.

The NWJCC Team looks forward to further building on this success as they continue their journey toward cultural competence and inclusivity.

Diverse Cymru's awards event took place at Cardiff Cricket Ground at the end of October where the NWJCC Team was represented by Dawnn Lubin, Neil Goulding, and Jacqui Maunder, supported by Lay Member Susan Elsmore.

Stacey said:  "We are absolutely delighted to have achieved the Silver Merit Award from Diverse Cymru that shows the continued progress we are making as an organisation.

“Involvement in the Scheme, championed by our Senior Leadership from the outset of our newly formed organisation, is enabling us to embed strong core values in our approaches to equality, diversity and inclusion. 

"The awareness sessions and subsequent reflection have given us the impetus to effect positive changes as a Commissioning body. We are committed to our values of respecting each other, building trust, fostering collaboration and striving for excellence, particularly during this period of organisational transition and transformation.”