The Disability Confident Employer Scheme (a Government scheme) provides organisations with the structure and process to implement inclusive recruitment practices, workplace adjustments, and manager training and create an inclusive culture for all.
The scheme has 3 levels designed to support employers on their Disability Confident journey, these are:
Disability Confident Committed (Level 1).
Disability Confident Employer (Level 2).
Disability Confident Leader (Level 3).
All employers join the scheme at Disability Confident Committed (Level 1) and progress through the levels to achieve the one that’s right for their organisation. On completion of levels, you receive Disability Confident Certification.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we’re uniquely placed to guide organisations through the accreditation process from Levels 1 to 3. We can conduct a gap analysis, provide targeted recommendations, and support the implementation process.
As a Disability Confident Leader we can validate the self-assessment and confirm that you are delivering against all the core actions as a Disability Confident Employer.
We can guide organisations through the accreditation process from Levels 1 to 3. We can conduct a gap analysis, provide targeted recommendations, and support the implementation process.
Planning your organisation’s Disability Confident journey, navigating it, and staying on course can be challenging for any organisation – and those tasked with doing it. It can help to have a guide, someone who knows the route well and can support you through the more challenging parts of the journey.
We’re able to support you at each level. Our support doesn’t just end there – it’s also important to continue reflecting on your journey by constantly reviewing your internal processes and policies.
The Levels:
Disability Confident Level 1 Committed – demonstrates your commitment to becoming an inclusive workplace.
Disability Confident Level 2 Employer – if you’re ready to take the next step you’ll need to assess your organisation against two themes. Getting the right people for your business and keeping & developing your people. This is where we can support you!
Disability Confident Level 3 Leader – your organisation is ready to be validated – you’re confident that you demonstrate a commitment to inclusion by having the practices and policies to support your disabled and neurodivergent staff.
Over 18,500 organisations have signed up to the scheme to get Disability Confident – what are you waiting for?
We’re a Disability Confident Leader!
We’re experts in neurodiversity AND disability.
We’re flexible in our approach – our initial scoping session will enable us to understand your organisation and how best to support it.
Our team has many years of lived and professional experience.
We’re super passionate about breaking down the barriers to make workplaces more inclusive!
You’ll benefit from objective feedback – we can identify and address challenges, blind spots, and unconscious bias within your organisation.
You’ll receive tailored advice and guidance on each of the criteria and actions of Disability Confident.
We’re able to support you throughout the entire inclusion journey – we have experience with audits, policies, workplace assessments, coaching and more…
So, what is Disability Confident? The Disability Confident meaning is that an employer is able to facilitate employees to work in a way that suits their learning style. This is broken down into three levels.
Level 1 is the exploratory and micro-implementation stage and includes a half-day workshop to explore the scheme’s five commitments:
Ensuring your recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
Communicating and promoting vacancies.
Offering an interview to disabled people.
Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required.
Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
A half-day consultancy to identify and plan the implementation of one action:
Work experience.
Work trials.
Paid employment (permanent or fixed term).
Apprenticeships.
Job shadowing opportunities.
Traineeships.
Paid internships and supported internships.
Student placements.
Sector-based work academy placements.
We can facilitate the self-assessment process to become a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2). We will work with you to test your business against the core statements, actions, and activities needed to achieve Level 2 Disability Confident Accreditation.
Our work involves:
An analysis of your existing policies and practices (through scoping interviews with staff and analysis of policy documents).
Highlighting gaps in existing policies and practices.
Advice and guidance on actions required to meet each of the criteria required to achieve Level 2 Accreditation.
Advice and guidance on planning and implementing actions, activities, and best practices.
Guidance on evidencing each criterion required.
Review of Level 2 self-assessment application before submission with verbal & written feedback.
Identification of areas requiring further improvement to facilitate progress to Level 3 Accreditation.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we can validate the self-assessment and confirm that you are delivering against all the core actions as a Disability Confident Employer.
Need validating? Get in touch with us today.
HR and Equality and Diversity and Inclusion teams that require a ‘hands-on’ approach.
Organisations that are committed to inclusion and diversity in the workplace.
Organisations that are already on their Disability Confident Journey but want to move to the next level.
Organisations that want to have their Level 3 status validated.
Becoming Disability Confident is a great way to support your whole neuroinclusion journey.
It focuses on recruiting and retaining the right people – but it doesn’t stop there; it provides you with the framework and processes to create an inclusive workplace.
Remotely or Face to Face, depending on needs.
Timescale to be agreed on depending on the size of the organisation.
The average project timescale is three months for us supporting you through the accreditation.
Every organisation is unique, and so are its people. No two journeys look the same, that’s why our approach is always tailored!
Our journey together begins with a conversation – get in touch our team or to see how we can support your organisation get Disability Confident!
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