Description
This Access-to-Work based service enables team leaders and staff to become more aware of the needs of employees and colleagues with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
Benefits
- Create an open and inclusive workplace.
- Embed inclusion into the work culture, organisational structure and workflows
- Becoming disability aware promotes workforce wellbeing and helps to avoid discrimination
- Encourages disability disclosure
- Improve staff retention rates by investing in both new and existing employees
- Increase employee satisfaction
- Equality Act compliance
What will be covered?
Our trainers ensure that the session is accessible, applicable and relevant to your organisation. We’ll cover:
- What does disability mean?
- Disclosing a disability
- How might a disability affect a person’s work?
- How to communicate with customers and employees who have disabilities
- Barriers that people with disabilities face
- What are reasonable adjustments and how to ensure you provide them
- Legislation including The Disability Discrimination Act and The Equality Act
- How to become Disability Confident
Who is it suitable for?
- Team Leaders
- HR Professionals
- Occupational Health Professionals
- Disability Advisors
- Support Managers
- Colleagues of disabled employees.
