Training & Consultancy

Our training can help you increase brand loyalty, innovation and productivity as well as make savings in staff recruitment and retention.

Disability Awareness Training

Delivered online or in person:

We can offer advice to help you make sure that you are complying with the law by providing you with a better understanding of what your obligations are in simple terms.
We can offer advice on how to provide reasonable adjustments, including how to tap into expert support.
We can offer support and advice with existing staff who have a disability.
We can give you all the knowledge and tools you need to benefit and make a success of employing a diverse workforce.
We can save you money and valuable time.

We are here to help … our team of experts with lived experience deliver Disability Awareness Training in a unique, practical, interactive and experiential learning style, with group discussion and SLIDO. The training is delivered in a friendly comfortable environment, with ample opportunity to ask any questions.

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What our training offers

An interactive course in a safe environment to ask questions and gain a greater understanding of disability by speaking to and hearing directly from a person who has lived experience. You will hear about their journey, the challenges they have faced along the way and the many benefits of being in paid employment.

Practical steps on how to successfully employ a person with a disability and where to get support.

Learning what the benefits are to employers, employing a diverse workforce.

The majority of organisations these days really want to be more diverse. Let us show you how to meet the social aspect of your ESG requirements and in doing so, enrich the quality and wellbeing of your existing workforce.

Whether you are an employer or providing services for people with disabilities, our training will offer you the tools to confidently work with and communicate with people who have a disability.

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Listen to this video clip about our work and disability awareness training

The Team

Delivered by Ways into Work CiC who work with over 250 employers and over 550 clients with disabilities across Berkshire, West Berkshire, Hampshire and Oxford. We support clients into paid employment and employers with their recruitment needs and agenda to introduce diversity and inclusion across their workforce.

Caroline Hood

Disability Awareness Manager

Caroline, who is BASE Qualified has worked for Ways into Work, initially as an Employment Coach for the past six years. With vast experience of supporting the Jobseeker and Employer to effect a good job match.

Caroline knows about the challenges that both Jobseekers and Employers can face, so is well qualified to provide practical advice and support.

Emma Shuttleworth

Disability Awareness Trainer

Emma who has lived experience, not only works as a trainer on the DAT team for Ways into Work but also has a second job working at a supermarket as a sales assistant.

Emma is well qualified to support you and put you at ease. Listening to her experience is really insightful and truly inspirational. Emma can give the practical support that only someone with lived experience can offer.

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Our training can be tailored to suit your needs – just get in touch.

The ONLINE out of the box courses below cost £50 per person, with a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 16 attendees.

We can also deliver at a site of your choosing, face to face, at the same rate plus expenses.

A 90 minute Introduction to Disability Awareness
- Know your obligations under the law
- A basic understanding of the five categories of disability directly from a trainer with lived experience
- Practical advice on how to make reasonable adjustments.
- Valuable inspirational insight directly from a person with lived experience about their journey
- Know where to get all the support you may need.
- Our introduction will give you the confidence and the knowledge you require to successfully employ a person with a disability.

A deep dive into Reasonable Adjustments
Learn what the benefits are of offering reasonable adjustments to your workforce and what your obligations are as an employer or prospective employer through the recruitment phase. This workshop will demystify and provide practical examples that will enabl employers to support and get the best out of their staff. The course will include:
- Understanding what a reasonable adjustment is, what the law says and your obligation as an employer.
- Knowing when and how to make a reasonable adjustment.
- Real life examples of reasonable adjustments that can be made in the workplace for people with differing needs.
- Where financial support maybe found to support staff with reasonable adjustments

Contact us to book now. To talk to us about a course, email us at info@waysin towork.com or call on 0300 561 0010.

Consultancy

Ways into Work also provide consultancy services for any of our stakeholders. Whether you are a business, commissioner, education provider or anyone else we can provide bespoke advice and guidance on how to embed supported employment in your organisation. Some examples of how we can help:

For businesses we offer solutions to the recruitment, retention and diversity challenges in your workforce.
For commissioners we can support you to practice what you preach by commissioning supported employment and to also facilitate your status of a leader by example.
For education providers and other community organisations we draw on our learning of supporting people in the workplace to help you design and develop your services to better prepare your beneficiaries for their step into employment.