Workplace Needs Assessment

Are you making the correct adjustments for your employees?

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Holistic Workplace Assessments

Help your employees bring their whole authentic selves to work

A Workplace Needs Assessment is vital to ensuring your disabled or neurodivergent employees can perform their roles to the best of their abilities. It also helps employers understand what adjustments are available and how they can best support their employee(s).

They are also essential for organisations to meet their legal obligations (Equality Act 2010) to staff with disabilities, including long-term health conditions, mental health difficulties, neurodifferences, sensory difficulties, and physical impairments.

Organisations that provide Workplace Needs Assessments have also seen:

  • Higher recruitment and retention rates
  • Enhanced productivity
  • Reduced absenteeism

Our assessments provide you and your employee with detailed and comprehensive recommendations for adjustments to support your employee to be as safe, well, and effective as possible.

Workplace Needs Assessment - FAQs

What is a Workplace Needs Assessment?

A Workplace Needs Assessment is a conversation between you (or your employee) and an Assessor. The Workplace Needs Assessments helps the assessor understand what your working day looks like; your role, responsibilities, tasks, strengths, and any challenges you are experiencing, all so that they can make useful recommendations to support you.

Your assessor will produce a report recommending possible adjustments, the reasons for them, and explaining how they might help. With your consent, this report will be submitted to your employer so that they can consider the recommendations suggested.

What is a Workplace Adjustment?

What is a workplace adjustments (sometimes called reasonable adjustments ) in the workplace?

A workplace adjustment is any change to the way someone does their job to remove barriers for them. The workplace adjustment works to allow someone to do their job in the way that best suits them. Examples of workplace adjustments can include:

  • Assistive Technology – text-to-speech, mind mapping

  • Equipment – noise-cancelling headphones, standing desks

  • Strategy Coaching

  • Support Worker

  • Awareness Training

  • Assistive Technology Training

  • Flexible Working

 

Where will my Workplace Needs Assessment take place?

Assessments are carried out remotely, usually on Teams, but can be in person if agreed prior.

We’d recommend that it’s best to ensure you have a quiet, private space where you won’t be interrupted.

Who is eligible for a Workplace Needs Assessment?

If you book a private assessment anyone can have a workplace needs assessment.

Access to Work is available if you:

  • Are disabled or have a long-term physical or mental health condition that impacts your ability to do your job and…
  • Are self-employed, employed (including apprenticeship, work experience or an internship) or about to start or return to work and…
  • Aged 16 or over and…
  • Lives and working in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales)

Partnering with us

Your Trusted Workplace Adjustment Partner

  • You’re in good hands – we’re industry-recognised experts and have partnered with a range of organisations, including FTSE 100 clients, to deliver their workplace adjustments.

  • We’re a full service provider. We’re here to support the whole adjutsment process. We can conduct the Workplace Needs Assessment, write the report, including providing recommendations, and we can then supply the recommendations. Recommendations might include assistive technology, training and coaching.

  • Our team have years of experience and knowledge working with a range of disabilities and neurodifferences; therefore, we provide workplace adjustments for ADHD and autism workplace adjustments, as well as workplace adjustments for dyslexia, dyspraxia, Tourette’s, menopause, mental health, long-term health conditions, physical impairments, stress, and sensory impairment.

  • We’ll provide you with a dedicated client relationship manager who will be your main point of contact.

 

If you’re an Individual:

  • We’re able to provide the Workplace Needs Assessment, or you can go through the Access to Work Scheme.

  • We can provide all the recommendations, including training and coaching! Even if we’re not on the list, we’re able to provide them and we’ll price match!

  • Using one supplier for your recommendations means one invoice!

  • Our reports are accepted by the Access to Work programme for funding consideration *nb). Funding is subject to approval by DWP.

 

neurohub – track your adjustment journey

    • Get access to our free-to-use case management system neurohub. Employees are able to  track their workplace adjustment journey, view all the items we supplied, including assistive technology, training, coaching and awareness sessions. Employees are also able to retrieve dates of previous training & coaching sessions and view all upcoming appointments.

    • Built to empower employees with a seamless way to track their workplace adjustment journey, neurohub is now expanding to support organisations too.

    • neurohub simplifies managing adjustments at scale, helping HR and ED&I teams foster inclusivity, save time, and achieve meaningful change. With features like centralised management, instant reporting, and enterprise-grade security, neurohub puts your people at the heart of workplace adjustments. We’ll be sharing more information on organisational access soon!

Our Process

Our comprehensive and holistic Workplace Needs Assessments ensure that disabled or neurodivergent employees get the reasonable adjustments they need to help them be as productive and confident as possible. Find out more about our three-step process below:

1. Consultation - the assessment

Our first step is a detailed look at all areas of an employee’s role, including their:

  • Strengths.

  • Challenges.

  • Working environment.

  • Working practices.

This is bespoke to the employee. At times we might also speak to the line-manager, this just gives us a better picture of the working environment.

2. Report write up

Next, we make fully explained recommendations for reasonable adjustments, which could include:

  • Specialist equipment.

  • Assistive technology (hardware or software).

  • Training.

  • Coaching.

  • Changes to working practices and processes.

3. Support

We’ll then support both employer and employee through the whole adjustment process by providing:

  • The recommended reasonable adjustments including assistive technology, training and coaching.

  • Advice and guidance through the adjustment process.

  • Customer care and technical support.

  • If you’re an organisation you’ll also be provided with a dedicated Customer Relationship Manager.

From the first contact, the team at neurobox worked quickly to understand our needs and completed a robust assessment and delivered a comprehensive list of “real life” achievable actions and recommendations – with timely support and guidance available from them when we needed it.

Virgin Atlantic Holidays

neurobox has enhanced our workplace environment by delivering invaluable support, encompassing both needs assessment and awareness training. Their readiness to clarify information and tailor resources to align with our company’s requirements underscores their exceptional level of service.

Softwire

We worked with neurobox for our employees workplace needs assessment and would recommend them to others.

The entire process was impressively quick and incredibly thorough. From the initial conversation to the final report, everything was handled with utmost professionalism and efficiency.

Construct Building Services

Get in touch

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If you already have an Access to Work Report and would like to speak to someone about recommendations, please get in touch via our Access to Work form.

If you’d like to discuss partnering for your organisations Workplace Assessments please get in touch with Martin and Becky using the form.

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