The Council is committed to developing, maintaining and supporting a culture in which equality and diversity is valued and disabled employees and applicants are treated fairly as defined in the Equality Act 2010. The Disability Policy has been created to reinforce this commitment. The purpose of this policy is to ensure that the Council recruit and retain talent, skills and experience and ensure disabled employees, can fulfil their employment potential.
The Council aims to provide all future and current employees with equality in access to the full range of recruitment, career development, promotion, training and other employment opportunities and will ensure that there is no unfair discrimination on grounds of disability and that access to employment and promotion in the Council is based on merit.
The Council has adopted the “social model of disability” to inform our work to promote equality of opportunity and to tackle discrimination against disabled people. This describes disability not as a medical issue, but one where disabled people face daily barriers in society such as attitudinal, environmental, institutional, information and communication barriers.
The Disability Policy & List of Support Officers can be found in the attachments below
Employee Adjustment Passport
The Employee Adjustment Passport provides a record of the reasonable adjustments that have been agreed between an employee and their line manager. The purpose of the agreement is to provide a framework for discussions between employees and managers to agree adjustments required, record the outcome of these discussions and to provide any new manager with details of agreed adjustments
The passport helps to:
- Ensure relevant parties are clear about the adjustments that have been agreed and a record is held.
- Reduce the need to reassess and renegotiate adjustments each time an employee changes jobs, is relocated or is assigned a new manager.
- Provide the employee and manager with the basis for future conversations about workplace adjustments.
Please find all required attachments and guidance/policies relevant to the Employee Adjustment Passport below.
Employee Guidance on how to apply for your Employee Adjustment Passport can be found HERE.
Manager Guidance on how to log the Employee Adjustment Passport can be found HERE.
Sources of further information and support
Further information and advice is available from a number of sources including: