National Disability Employment Awareness Month
We are committed to putting equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do. Working with our community we developed a Disability Leave policy in 2013, to ensure that disabled members of staff are able to have paid time away from work to attend treatment, rehabilitation or assessments related to their disability.
What can disability leave be used for?
- hospital appointments, hospital treatment as an outpatient or specialist check-ups including monitoring of related equipment or treatment
- assessment for conditions such as dyspraxia
- training, for example, with a guide or hearing dog, or in the use of specialist equipment
- counselling or therapeutic treatment
- recovery time after blood transfusion or dialysis treatment
- physiotherapy
- to allow time for adjustments or adaptions to be made
We are proud to share that our Sports Training Village offer, as part of therapeutic treatment, free access to staff with mobility issues or impairments to the hydrotherapy pool. A number of our staff use this facility regularly to support mobility issues.
If you missed it see our blog on recruitment and agreement for adjustments plans. Look out for our next blog on the aFLAME Disability network.
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