Inclusive careers

96% of our people would recommend Burges Salmon as a great place to work. Come join them.

Representing our communities

We want all our people to feel fairly rewarded and financially secure. Our competitive pay is linked to your contribution, so you’ll know your hard work is being recognised. We want our firm to represent the diverse communities in which we operate, providing our people with opportunities to learn, develop and progress whilst feeling engaged and valued, and knowing that their safety and wellbeing is a priority.  

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities, and we’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where our people are respected and treated fairly, regardless of background, gender, race or any other protected characteristic. According to our annual People Survey, 96% of our people would recommend Burges Salmon as a great place to work – come join us. 

Our approach

Our approach to inclusion focuses on four key areas: gender, disability, ethnicity and LGBT+. For each of the focus areas, we have a strategic action plan in place and a people-led network to encourage engagement and support delivery.

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Gender

Our Gender Action Plan focuses on delivering gender balance across the firm, particularly in the partnership and senior business professional roles.

We’re building a workplace that’s accessible to those with additional caring responsibilities and ensuring all our people feel confident to progress. In 2021, 2022 and 2023, we were recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality. 

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LGBT+

We have strong LGBT+ representation within our organisation.

We are long-standing sponsors of Bristol Pride and Edinburgh Pride, and we follow best practice in LGBT+ inclusion through our involvement with Stonewall. 

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Ethnic diversity

We have an Ethnic Diversity Action Plan to improve our ethnic diversity representation within our workforce.

Our ethnic diversity reverse mentoring programme supports our key senior leaders in building inclusive and representative departments and processes across the firm.

Health and disability

We are committed to employing people with long-term health conditions, disabilities or impairments.

We are a Disability Confident Leader, ensuring that we provide best practice in supporting outr people and providing any adjustments or tools needed in the workplace.  

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Social mobility

Social mobility follows through each of our diversity and inclusion strands and we have been recognised as a Top 75 Employer for Social Mobility.

We follow best practice, such as the Prime Commitment, and take part in local schemes, such as Bristol Future Talent Partnership and Women’s Work Lab.

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Responsible business

We work with community partners and local charities to support our efforts in diversity and inclusion and to help us implement best practice for our people.

Find out more in our Responsible Business Report. 

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We are a Disability Confident Leader – our commitment

We actively encourage people with disabilities, long-term health conditions or impairments to apply for our roles. We regularly implement adjustments to assist people throughout the recruitment process, it’s part of what we do. We will interview people who have a disability and meet our minimum criteria for the role.

We encourage you to disclose your disability, long-term health condition or impairment so we can provide you with the appropriate support during your application.

We can make tailored adjustments to assessments and interviews to make sure we provide you with an equal opportunity to shine.

Through our partnership with WECIL, we have supportive and well-informed specialists who help us provide workplace adjustments, including reviewing our recruitment processes.

Alongside our Advisory (HR) team, WECIL can advise how best to support you in your role, and you will be in full control of any adjustments suggested or put in place to make sure you are able to flourish at Burges Salmon. 

We provide everyone access to inclusive technology Read&Write for Work. It’s a powerful set of digital tools to help everyone work with more confidence, accuracy, and efficiency.

BEnabled is our people-led network which helps us support individuals with disabilities, long-term health conditions or impairments including carers and allies.

It runs firm-wide learning sessions, provides a strong support network and is involved in developing new policies and processes, such as our Hybrid Working guidelines, that may affect disabled colleagues.