Kidney Care UK

Who we are

For over 45 years, Kidney Care UK has been at the forefront of supporting people with kidney disease. From our early days when we campaigned to introduce donor cards in the UK, we have worked hard to support and represent the interests of everyone affected by kidney disease.

We continue to provide practical, emotional and financial support whilst also working with health professionals to improve care services and campaign for change. We are here for the young and the old, for those struggling to make ends meet, for families and loved ones and we fight tirelessly, giving our total support, to improve the lives of kidney patients and their families.

https://kidneycareuk.org/about-us/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/our-impact-and-annual-reports/

Our culture and values

Kidney Care UK is the UK's leading kidney patient support charity. We offer advice, support and financial grants and assistance to thousands of kidney patients and their families every year.

Our values: The following values are at the heart of Kidney Care UK and we apply them to everything we do.

Passionate and committed - We are passionate about the cause we represent and deeply committed to the importance of improving the lives of people affect by kidney disease
Caring and responsive - We are caring, responsive, approachable and there when needed
Respectful - We demonstrate respect in everything we do and are open minded and inclusive
Transparent and open - We are accountable for our actions and honest and transparent in our communication with others
Responsible - We believe in making the best of all our resources
Collaborative - We seek to build successful partnerships in pursuit of common goals
Determined and Effective - We don’t give up in pursuit of our goals. When patients seek out help we make things happen.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

We are equal opportunity employer and are fully committed to a policy of treating all of our employees and job applicants equally in all aspects of employment including: recruitment and selection, promotion, transfer, opportunities for training, pay and benefits, other terms of employment, discipline, selection for redundancy and dismissal.

We will take all reasonable steps to employ and promote employees on the basis of their experience, abilities and qualifications, without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, age, marriage and civil partnership or disability. 

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer (Level 1) - We welcome and encourage applications from disabled people.

We are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people in particular those with lived experience of kidney disease. To demonstrate our commitment, we are committed to the Disability Confident Employer scheme. We will guarantee an interview to anyone who considers themselves to have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 and indicates that they wish to apply to one of our job vacancies under our guaranteed interview scheme.

To be eligible for the scheme the candidate must meet the definition of disabled under the Equality Act 2010.  This means they must have a long-term disability or health condition, which put them at a disadvantage in either obtaining or keeping jobs.  The disability could be physical, sensory or mental and must have lasted or be expected to last at least 12 months. Their job application must demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the advertised post.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during our recruitment process or wish to indicates that a wish to apply to one of our job vacancies under our guaranteed interview scheme, please message [email protected]