Inclusive Employment Resources by Karen Oliver

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 09:41:35 UTC

The Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) video.

We help recruiters and employers to become disability confident and offer more job opportunities to people with disabilities.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 09:54:13 UTC

Information about employing disabled people and how the Disability Confident Employer Scheme can help your business.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:06:03 UTC

Diversify your Team - as a business, employing people with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) could be one of the most rewarding and valuable decisions you can make as an employer.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:10:01 UTC

Find out about the different supported employment services we offer people with a learning disability.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:13:48 UTC

Apprenticeships, 14 to 19 education and training for work. Includes finding a course, finding an apprenticeship and information for employers.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:16:19 UTC

Empowering global organisations with measurable cultural change.

Invest in your company's future with diversity and inclusion.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:19:13 UTC

Mencap's job coaching agency provides disabled people with a trained job coach who will support them with employment matters such as support at interviews, inductions, travel training, performance at work and training.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:22:09 UTC

Reasonable adjustments for interviews and the workplace.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:24:59 UTC

Neuro-diversity and the workplace.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:29:31 UTC

London South East Colleges - Employer's Toolkit.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:33:41 UTC

Department for Work and Pensions, Access to Work.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:34:24 UTC

Access to Work - factsheet for employers.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:44:46 UTC

Understanding Autism

Free level 2 online course for adults 19+ (subject to eligibility).

Throughout this qualification, you will gain an understanding of autism and how it affects people in a variety of ways, as well as exploring a person-centred approach to provide support.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:49:57 UTC

Internships Work - resources for employers.

Diversify your workforce while supporting young people with SEND to thrive in the workplace.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:51:30 UTC

Advice for employees and employers on dealing with discrimination and bullying.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 10:55:48 UTC

This guidance sets out what education providers need to know in order to set up a supported internship programme.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 11:59:16 UTC

Work Trials - a way for you and a jobseeker to see if the job is a good fit for you both.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 12:02:44 UTC

The government's recommended training package to support providers to meet the new legal requirement for learning disability and autism training.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 12:05:00 UTC

Careers and work advice for disabled people.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 12:06:17 UTC

Support for mental health in the workplace.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 12:14:35 UTC

The British Association for Supported Employment is the membership association for organisations that provide, or have an interest in, specialist employment support for people with a disability or other economic disadvantage.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 12:24:27 UTC

A practical guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition.

The guidance is part of the Disability Confident campaign.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 12:27:30 UTC

Use this form to support employees with what help and changes are available to help them move into employment.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 12:38:48 UTC

A standard for maximising the legibility of printed documents such as leaflets, brochures, guidebooks and maps. They can also be applied to other forms of written communication such as letters and forms.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 12:46:38 UTC

The Disability Confident Scheme - guidance about signing up for the scheme and how it can help your business.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 12:49:06 UTC

Principles that can help ensure that written material considers the difficulties experienced by some dyslexic people and allows for the use of text to speech to facilitate ease of reading.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 12:51:32 UTC

UK Association for Accessible Formats

Helping to make every document an accessible document for millions of people worldwide who are either blind or partially sighted.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 12:55:24 UTC

Thriving at Work Review

What employers can do to better support mental health.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 13:00:23 UTC

Striving to provide innovative skills-based training that better prepares learners with additional needs and disabilities for the workplace whilst opening the door to a wide variety of employment opportunities.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 13:02:45 UTC

Reasonable adjustments at interviews with examples.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 13:06:56 UTC

Royal National Institute for Blind People

A range of support for people affected by sight loss including looking for employment, reasonable adjustments to help stay in work or for employers supporting colleagues.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 13:13:14 UTC

New guidance offering advice to managers on how to better support employees with disabilities by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) was published in April 2024.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 13:23:05 UTC

Why workplace reasonable adjustments, tailored to individual needs, improves the overall working experience for disabled employees, enhancing their engagement and productivity while reducing absenteeism.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 13:27:53 UTC

The Government aims to kick-start growth, build an inclusive and thriving labour market, and achieve an 80% employment rate.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 13:31:37 UTC

People who are neurodiverse will benefit from better employment prospects and more inclusive workplaces thanks to the work and advice of a new expert panel launched on 29th January 2025.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 13:34:32 UTC

Mencap deliver supported internships to people aged 16-24 with a learning disability, to make the transition from education into work.

karenoliver93 — 2025-02-17 13:44:27 UTC

With more than 118,000 unfilled roles in hospitality, changes to company culture - such as more inclusive hiring practices and a greater emphasis on staff wellbeing - will enable hospitality leaders to draw on large pools of potential recruits that are currently underutilised, including the neurodivergent.

karenoliver93 — 2025-03-11 15:24:52 UTC

Useful Microsoft accessibility settings.

karenoliver93 — 2025-03-11 15:26:24 UTC

Useful Apple accessibility settings.

karenoliver93 — 2025-03-11 15:28:57 UTC

Useful Samsung accessibility settings.

karenoliver93 — 2025-03-25 10:21:53 UTC

e-brochure to accompany the workshop held on Wednesday 26th March at 2pm.

karenoliver93 — 2025-03-25 10:24:26 UTC

Guest speaker: Caroline Kandaya, Integration Hub Coordinator, Local London

karenoliver93 — 2025-03-25 10:26:32 UTC

Guest speaker: Giles Delamare, Curriculum Manager SEND Bromley Campus, London South East Colleges

karenoliver93 — 2025-03-25 10:27:52 UTC

Guest speaker: Sally Bateman, Supported Internships Manager, Bromley MENCAP

karenoliver93 — 2025-03-25 10:29:27 UTC

Guest speaker: George Pickersgill, Programme Specialist, DFN Project SEARCH

karenoliver93 — 2025-03-25 10:31:33 UTC

Guest speaker: Liezel Kuhn Keyser, Chief Operating Officer, CASPA

karenoliver93 — 2025-03-26 08:15:29 UTC

Guest speaker: Tricia Hamilton, Head of People and Culture, Chopstix