Disability-Smart Recruitment: A practical playbook for barrier-free hiring
Enable hiring teams to design barrier-free recruitment from advert to onboarding, meeting Equality Act duties, improving candidate experience and widening your talent pool.
At a glance
Format
Live training:
• Virtual (Teams / Zoom) or In-Person
Duration
3.5 hours including 2 breaks
Ideal for
HR practitioners, talent acquisition teams, hiring managers, recruiters and interview panel members.
Group size
5 – 15 participants
Why this course?
Inclusive hiring widens your talent pool and reduces risk. Rooted in real member case studies, this practical session builds confident, consistent behaviours so teams can design fair processes, handle adjustment conversations well and make defensible decisions.
Who should attend?
Anyone involved in job design, advertising, sifting, assessment, interviews, offer decisions or onboarding, including agency partners.
Learning objectives
Know the rules & your duty
Understand disability and what the Equality Act requires in recruitment, including reasonable adjustments at each stage.
Design barrier-free processes
Identify barriers in job design, attraction and interviews, and propose practical, workable adjustments.
Write inclusive job ads
Draft ad copy that avoids exclusionary language, invites adjustment requests and follows BDF style guidance.
Benefits for your business
- Wider, higher-quality talent pool with lower drop-off.
- Stronger employer brand and candidate attraction.
- Fewer complaints and lower tribunal risk.
- Consistent, defensible decisions across teams.
- Greater innovation from more diverse hires.
What to expect
Core concepts
Inclusive hiring principles, objective decision-making and key legal duties.
Interactive practice
Recruitment-journey scenarios, quick polls and ad-snippet rewrites with guided feedback.
Tools & next steps
Job-ad checklist, interview prompts, reasonable-adjustments quick guide and decision-record template.
Pricing & options
- From £935 + VAT (Members & Partners).
- From £1,200 + VAT (Non-Members).
- Tailoring: custom scenarios and case studies on request.
- Volume discounts for multiple cohorts.
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For more information about our standard courses, tailored and bespoke learning offers, and to discuss costs, please contact our Learning & Development team:
Email: training@businessdisabilityforum.org.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7403 3020
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