Cymru Care Training has become a Disability Confident Committed Employer Level 1. We have achieved this helping to  promote and positively change attitudes, behaviours and cultures towards disability.

To achieve Level 1 you have to make five commitments...

 

1. Ensure your recruitment process is inclusive and accessible by: 

  • ensuring against discrimination

  • making job adverts accessible

  • providing information in accessible formats (for example, large print)

  • accepting applications in alternative formats (for example, electronically)

 

2. Communicate and promote vacancies by:

  • advertising vacancies through a range of channels, and use your Disability Confident badge to make sure potential applicants know you’re an inclusive employer

  • getting advice and support from Jobcentre Plus, Work and Health Programme providers, and your local disabled people’s user led organisations 

  • reviewing current recruitment processes

 

3. Offer an interview to disabled people

  • Encourage applications by offering an interview to an applicant who declares they have a disability.
  • This does not mean that all disabled people are entitled to an interview. They must meet the minimum criteria (for example, sometimes shown as desirable skills) for a job as defined by the employer.
  • The aim of this commitment is to encourage positive action, encouraging disabled people to apply for jobs and provide an opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities at the interview stage.

 

4. Anticipate and provide reasonable adjustments as required

  • Employers have a duty under the Equality Act 2010 to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ in the workplace where a disabled person would otherwise be put at a substantial disadvantage compared with their colleagues.

 

5. Support any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work

  • Retaining an employee who’s become disabled means keeping their valuable skills and experience and saving on the cost of recruiting a replacement.

To find out more about the scheme, please use this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-confident-guidance-for-levels-1-2-and-3/level-1-disability-confident-committed