Employment and workforce

Toolkits

A core area of disability inclusion is ensuring disabled people are able to thrive in your workforce. Here we present a comprehensive range of guidance on recruiting and retaining disabled employees including:

• People Manager Toolkit – BDF Member and Partner only
• Recruitment Toolkit – includes some free resources
• Occupational Health mini-Toolkit – BDF Member and Partner only
• Redundancy and Redeployment Toolkit – free and open to all

Members and Partners enjoy exclusive access to the full range of Knowledge Hub resources plus additional membership benefits. Find out more about membership.

Recruitment Toolkit

Everything you need to know to make your recruitment processes inclusive and accessible, from attraction to onboarding.

Occupational Health Toolkit

What your organisation needs to know about Occupational Health, employment and disability.

Redundancy and Redeployment Toolkit

Make sure you’re being disability-smart when considering redundancy and redeployment.

People Manager Toolkit

Advice and guidance for people managers on creating and supporting Disability-Smart teams.

Managing support workers

COMING SOON: Explore our range of resource on managing support workers, proudly sponsored by HSBC. These resources will be available to Members and Partners on 10 December.

Developing an approach to managing support workers

COMING SOON: Support workers assist disabled employees to do their jobs. This resource outlines how employers can facilitate support workers.

How to manage funding of support workers

COMING SOON: The three main ways employers can manage the funding of support workers.

Managing support workers employed by the disabled person

COMING SOON: What employers should do when a member of staff employs a support worker themselves.

Managing support workers employed by the organisation

COMING SOON: What employers can do to facilitate employees whose support workers are employed directly by the organisation.

Managing outsourced support workers

COMING SOON: How employers should engage support workers provided by an external agency.

Interview – Working with a support worker

COMING SOON: We spoke with Joel, who shares his experience of using a support worker.

Resources

We also present a range of practical resources for employers on disability inclusion in the workplace.

Open to all

Reasonable adjustments decision process

This process and form is most helpful where organisations feel an adjustment might be unreasonable for them to make. This document will help a manager make an evidence-based decision about…

Member and Partner only

Data monitoring and disability

Begin with the end in mind – know what you want to achieve with data monitoring and let that determine what you ask.

Open to all

Data monitoring – Asking about disability

This is a brief guide to how and most importantly why organisations should ask their workforce about disability. Many organisations start the data monitoring process by asking how to word…