What does a truly diverse and inclusive business feel like? It’s where you can be yourself, no holding back. Where you can be appreciated for who you really are and recognised for the contribution you make.

It’s where the whole team makes a conscious effort to understand and support each other’s cultures, backgrounds, experiences. Where training is given across the business to help us all do that better.

It’s where you’re supported to do your best work. Where your managers care about meeting your needs, from the right working conditions and tools, to the right work patterns.

That’s the environment we want for everyone at FCDO Services – and we work hard every day to achieve it.

Workplace adjustments

Every colleague should have a workplace and a working pattern that meets their needs and enables their best work. As a Disability Confident employer, we offer and make adjustments for anyone who needs it.

We also make reasonable adjustments in our application and interview process, find out more on our How to apply page.

Workplace passports

From carers to colleagues with disabilities or long-term health conditions, lots of us have specific needs when it comes to our workplace and our work pattern. We are committed to the Civil Service Workplace Adjustment Passport Scheme to make it easier for colleagues to get what they need. Here’s how:

1. A confidential document acts as a live record you can update with exactly which adjustments you need, to feel comfortable and enabled to do your best work.

2. When you move into a new role with a new manager, you can provide this document to them so that they immediately know what you need – without any hassle for you.

3. No-one sees the passport unless you want them to, and it’s confidential when you do share it – meaning if you prefer discretion in establishing your needs, this makes it easier.

4. You can also use the passport to help highlight non-visible mental and physical conditions. If you want your team to understand, you can use it to quickly share your experiences and what you need from them.

Supporting everyone's mental wellbeing

Mind, the mental health charity, estimates that every year, 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health issue. We’re making sure that our colleagues are supported, and that they know how to support each other. That includes:

- Workplace adjustments for mental health conditions.

- Equal care for mental and physical health conditions.

- Mental Health First Aid training to look after each other.

- Dedicated wellbeing rooms for a calm, quiet space.

- The Wellbeing Network for support and awareness.

- Time to Talk Days, tackling stigma around mental health.

- A rolling programme of Safe Space sessions for all colleagues.

- Access to a Community Liaison Officer while posted overseas.