A number of changes affected our Gender Pay Gap in April 2021:

We pay a sleep-in top up for our Care staff.  As sleep ins have been classed as non-working time, we have included payments for these shifts in the calculations but not the hours completed.  This reflects a change in our reporting methods from October 2020 and results in an increase in pay for our lower paid staff.

We introduced company sick pay for our Care teams in January 2021.

We have had a greater proportion of female staff contributing to our salary sacrifice pensions.  As the calculations must be made on gross pay after pension deductions for salary sacrifice this has increased the gender pay gap, particularly in the lower quartile.

Papworth Trust’s Director of People and Culture, Sarah Harvey, agrees this data is correct.