The TARGETjobs website has a comprehensive section on equality and diversity issues and your graduate job hunt, including disability and mental health, with advice and further links to information on:
- Equality legislation
- Disclosing disability in job applications
- Finding disability-friendly employers
Support and Your Rights in the Workplace
- Access to Work - https://www.gov.uk/access-to-work
You may be eligible for additional support to access the workplace through Access to Work which is provided through the government and potentially your employer. - Support and Your Rights in the Workplace - https://www.gov.uk/browse/disabilities/work
The government has created a resource which gives an overview of the support available to workers with disabilities. - Disability Rights UK - https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/careers-and-work-disabled-people Disability Rights UK have created a number of factsheets including one on employment which includes information about your rights at work and how to access appropriate careers advice.
- The Shaw Trust - https://www.shaw-trust.org.uk/
The Shaw Trust aims to improve employment outcomes for people with health conditions and disabilities - TARGETjobs - https://targetjobs.co.uk/
A useful information resource on equality and diversity whilst job seeking and in the workplace.
Employment and Recruitment Opportunities for Disabled People
- Go Wales Achieve Through Work Experience Programme - https://www.swansea.ac.uk/sea/gowales/
The Achieve Through Work Experience Programme is a European Social Fund initiative to create work experience opportunities for students who may face barriers with gaining work experience. If you have a disability, are under 25 and are in full-time education, you may be eligible for this scheme. - The Leonard Cheshire Society Change 100 Scheme - https://www.leonardcheshire.org/what-we-can-do-you/working/employment-support-and-internships/internships-students-and-graduates
The Change 100 scheme aims to remove barriers experienced by disabled people in the workplace by offering placements with leading organisations. This scheme is available to disabled students in their penultimate or final year of university or those who have graduated within the last two years. - My Plus Students’ Club - https://myplusstudentsclub.com/
The My Plus Students’ Club is a disability focused graduate careers website which aims to encourage employers to become disability confident in all aspects of hiring and employment. - EmployAbility - https://www.employ-ability.org.uk/
EmployAbility provide opportunities and advice to disabled and Dyslexic students and graduates. - Incluzy - https://incluzy.com/
An inclusive employment hub aimed at Neurodiverse people - Exceptional Individuals - https://exceptionalindividuals.com/
An employment partnership for Dyslexic and Neurodiverse people. - Disability Jobsite - https://www.disabilityjobsite.co.uk/
Disability Jobsite assists people with a disability to participate actively in employment and plays a critical role in supporting people with a disability on the pathway to work. - VERCIDA - https://www.vercida.com/uk
A careers site that works with employers who place a high importance on inclusion and diversity in the workplace. - Evenbreak - https://www.evenbreak.co.uk/en
- A social enterprise created with the aim of enabling talented disabled candidates to find inclusive employers
- City Disabilities - http://citydisabilities.org.uk/
City Disabilities is an organisation that supports students who want to join professions in London, and who have disabilities or medical conditions that affect their working lives. - BBC Extend Hub - https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/trainee-schemes-and-apprenticeships/extend/extend
As part of their commitment to increase the number of disabled people working for the BBC, the Extend Hub has been created as a new talent recruitment portal for disabled people. - Civil Service Summer Diversity Internship Programme - https://www.faststream.gov.uk/summer-diversity-internship-programme/
The Summer Diversity Internship Programme gives people from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to see what a career in the Civil Service is like.