Disability Awareness
Course Aims:
To support managers in both identifying and preventing bullying or harassment within a team.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course delegates will be able to:
- Understand more about disability, that is personal to each individual and what is covered by the term.
- Feel confident to engage and feel equipped with the practical knowledge and skills to understand and provide support to disabled staff
- To develop understanding of the importance of an inclusive workplace, particularly in relation to disability
- Feel more confident about using appropriate language and behaviours and feel empowered and confident to have open conversations about the inclusion of disabled people
- Know more about implementing adjustments for students / colleagues.
- To learn the legal obligations of disability equality at work
Duration/Location:
- 1 day/In house training or online training course / 2 x 3 hour consultant facilitated virtual training sessions
Course Contents:
- Trainer’s experience, credentials
- Delegates introduce themselves through an exercise called Inclusion Speed dating
- EXERCISE: delegates given questions such as ‘Tell me a time when you made a disabled colleague feel valued’ or ‘What is your experience of disability’ and have 2/3 timed conversations with others before reporting back to the group
- Group discussion and feedback
- EXERCISE: in small groups delegates to discuss and feedback on how they think the training will meet the organisation’s objectives.
- EXERCISE: on how a disabled person may be excluding in the different situations/topics
- Group feedback and reflection on what the organisational impact of exclusion is
- Facilitator-led input covering the Equality Act’s 9 Protected Characteristics, direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, discrimination arising from a disability, discrimination by association, discrimination by perception, harassment and victimisation.
- EXERCISE: case studies, taken from employment case law and real-life examples.
- Build on the exclusion exercise delegates explore how to include disabled people. This will cover use of language, confidence and openness, tailoring the message for different audiences
- What do we mean by reasonable adjustments and what constitutes ‘reasonable’
- Examples of adjustments which have been made
- Explanation of The House of Lords policy/process on reasonable adjustment
- Conclusions, signposting and questions
- Individual Development Plans
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