Overview

To enable and support the process of transformation the Health Sciences Faculty has established various strategic structures and roles, which are seen as critical to overseeing, driving, implementing, monitoring and evaluating activities, programmes, and processes that work towards achieving the Faculty’s transformative goals, as described in the FHS Transformation Framework document.

Employment Equity Committee (EEC)

In compliance with the new Guidance document, an Employment Equity Committee (EEC) has been established in the Faculty. The primary focus of the EEC is to strategise, oversee, monitor, and evaluate the process of equitable recruitment within the Faculty and the attainment of our EE targets and goals.

• Employment Equity Committee TORs

The release of UCT’s 2021 Employment Equity Policy and plan for the period 2022 – 2026, has been accompanied by a new approach to implementing employment equity, as detailed in the new Guidance document. In broad terms, the new approach takes a distributed view to ensuring that implementing and advocating for employment equity becomes the collective responsibility of all selection committee members, rather than the responsibility of a single EE representative.

• Employment Equity Policy 2021
• Employment Equity Plan (2022–2026)
• Guidance for the Implementation of Employment Equity (2022 – 2026)

To support the new plan and process, the Office for Inclusivity and Change has released the ‘Fundamentals of Employment Equity’ training (course 29003), available via SuccessFactors. All staff who sit on selection committees are required to complete this training.

• How to access the Fundamental of Employment Equity course
• How to download your certificate of completion for the Fundamentals of Employment Equity course.

Transformation and Equity Committee (TEC)

The F-TEC operates according to it’s terms of reference (TOR) as an advisory committee to address the following overall strategic goals: 

• Making the faculty a representative institution in terms of its profile of academic and support staff, and of its student body.
• Developing a zero-tolerance to bullying, discrimination and harassment, especially sexual and gender-based violence.
• Promote an engaging Faculty culture which enables student and staff wellness by supporting decolonisation and developing mutually beneficial accountable mentorship
• Facilitating transformative staff and student recruitment, staff retention and development.

The vision of the FHS is to facilitate the transformation process within the Faculty and to create a sustainable set of changes in culture and policies.

Specific areas in which the F-TEC activities are organised, include:

• Student Wellness
• Staff Wellness
• Faculty Culture