I am an employer/business owner and would like more information about Connect to Work.
Helping you build a stronger more inclusive workforce
If you’re struggling with staff retention or recruitment, or looking to broaden your staffing options, we’re here to help. Whether you need to fill a vacancy or provide additional support to your existing team, our team can work with you to find the right solution for your business.
Complete our Expression of Interest form and a member of our team will be in touch within seven working days.
Hiring and retaining staff can be tough. You might be facing:
● Difficulty finding reliable candidates
● High staff turnover or absenteeism
● Uncertainty about how to support employees with health conditions, disabilities or other barriers
● Limited time or resources to provide in-work support
How Connect to Work Can Help
Connect to Work is a fully-funded service that works with employers like you to:
- Match you with motivated candidates who are ready and eager to work
- Provide one-to-one support for you and your new employees to help them settle in and succeed
- Offer advice and guidance on reasonable adjustments and inclusive practices
- Support existing staff who may be struggling to stay in work due to health or personal challenges
- Reduce recruitment costs by helping you find the right person, the first time
There's more to come
As we begin rolling out Connect to Work across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, our goal is to offer the highest quality support to everyone who wants to get involved.
To ensure we deliver this effectively, we’re taking a phased approach and expanding the service over the next few months. This means that, initially, some individuals or areas may not receive the full level of support straight away.
We’re working hard to reach every community, and we expect to have the full offer of support in place soon.
Partnering with Connect to Work
Get real results with support that delivers:
● Access to a new pool of job-ready candidates
● Improved staff retention and wellbeing
● A more inclusive and diverse workplace
● No cost to your business
Find out how Connect to Work can support your business.
Additional support
Become Disability Confident
The Disability Confident scheme supports employers like you to make the most of the talents disabled people can bring to your workplace.
The scheme helps employers recruit and retain great people, and:
* draw from the widest possible pool of talent
* secure high quality staff who are skilled, loyal and hard working
* improve employee morale and commitment by demonstrating that you treat all employees fairly
Interviewing an autistic person for a job
This guide will help you conduct a job interview with an autistic person. It will provide you with some techniques that will help you to improve the interview process, ensuring a better experience for both you and the person being interviewed.
Access the guide at bath.ac.uk
Transition to employment toolkit
Ambitious about Autism have developed this toolkit to support those working with autistic young people to understand their needs and help them onto the job ladder, or into further training or education.
visit ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk
Employing people with a learning disability
With the right support, and if placed in a suitable role, people with a learning disability can perform exceptionally well.
Many people with a learning disability are fit to work, can do a job well, and can be just as productive at work as anyone else.
People with a learning disability can also be loyal and dedicated employees, reducing your staff turnover - and having them on the team can help to improve staff morale.
Autism Space
Find advice, information and support around all things relating to autism.
visit the Autism Space web page
ACAS
ACAS provides clear advice on how to support disabled people at work, including:
* Talking about disability at work
* How an employer should support disabled people
* Managing a disability that gets worse over time
* Disability-related absence
* Capability and performance when someone is disabled
Jobcentre Plus
Jobcentre Plus Disability Employment Advisers can support you to
remove any concerns you have around recruiting individuals who have additional needs and/or a disability.
For more information contact your local Jobcentre plus for more support
Access to work
Access to Work can support you to:
* hire disabled people with the skills you need
* retain an employee who develops a disability or long term condition (keeping their valuable skills and saving both time and money recruiting a replacement)
* show that you value and will support your employees by having good employment policies and practices
Autism and Neurodiversity Toolkit
The DWP autism and neurodiversity toolkit is a resource to support awareness and understanding of autism spectrum conditions and hidden impairments. It provides practical guidance for supporting people who have neurodiverse conditions, including examples of reasonable adjustments.
View the toolkit
Beyond Autism - Employer Toolkit
This toolkit, funded by the City Bridge Foundation, will give autistic people improved access to, and support in, employment.
Beyond Autism website
The Buckland Review of Autism Employment
A report of research and recommendations led by Sir Robert Buckland KC MP, supported by Autistica,
more on thegov.uk website