Armed Forces Covenant
At NSFT, we're very proud to support veterans and members of the Armed Forces Community.
We currently have the silver award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme which involves the following:
- Must have signed the Armed Forces Covenant
- Must already be accredited as a holder of ERS Bronze Award and must have held it with sufficient time to develop suitable plans, policies and evidence to support the ERS Silver application - the employer must proactively demonstrate that service personnel and the armed forces community are not unfairly disadvantaged as part of their recruiting and selection processes
- Must actively ensure that their workforce is aware of their positive policies towards defence people issues - e.g. an employer nominated for support to the Reserves must have an internally-publicised and positive HR policy on Reserves
- Within the context of Reserves, the employer must have demonstrated support to mobilisations or have a framework in place, demonstrating support to training by providing at least 5 days' additional unpaid/paid leave (wherever possible not to Reservist employees' financial disadvantage)
- Must not have been the subject of any negative PR or media activity
- The employer should demonstrate support to the Cadet movement as a whole by providing proactive support to individual cadets and/or to local cadet units