Recruiting an employee with disability is not about doing more, but doing things differently. Use these resources to increase understanding of how to make your workplace more accessible and supportive.
1. Find a disability employment supplier
- National Disability Recruitment Coordinator job vacancy service – Australian Government
- Employment services - Choice. Passion, Life Disability Services
- Employment vacancy sites:
2. Make your recruitment processes inclusive
- Essential job requirements checklist
- Take a person-centred approach
- Inclusive and accessible role descriptions checklist
- Review recruitment processes
- Read about lessons learnt: Amanda’s story
3. Hiring manager and interview panel resources
- Interrupt bias during recruitment – Queensland Government
- Recruitment panel tips
- Essential job requirements checklist
- Unconscious bias – Queensland Government
- A step-by-step guide to preventing discrimination in recruitment – Australian Human Rights Commission
- Addressing barriers in recruitment – Queensland Government
- RecruitAbility – Australian Public Service Commission
4. Adjust and remain flexible
- Driving inclusion through adjustment and flexibility (document to be uploaded)
- Flexible by Design – Queensland Government
- Adjustment strategies for mental health-related disability – Great-West Life Centre
- Manager’s guide to creating a disability inclusive workplace – Australian Network on Disability
- Better mental health in the workplace – Heads up
- Be healthy, be safe, be well framework
- Unconscious bias - Queensland Government
- Harvard Implicit Assessment Test – Project Implicit
- Disability adjustment solutions by impairment – Job Access
5. Our future workforce
- Employer support - Vision Australia
- Employment Assistance Fund – Australian Government
- PaTH internships - Australian Government
- National work experience programme – Department of Jobs and Small Business
6. Case studies
- Organisations that have demonstrated their commitment to inclusive recruitment and achieved Disability Confident Recruiter status – Australian Network on Disability
- Working together to transform the Australian Public Service - an employer of choice – embracing disability – Australian Public Service Commission
- Australian Tax Office innovates through workplace adjustments
- Reasonable adjustment video – Australian Public Service Commission
- Flex work design – Queensland Government
- Lawyer who is deaf uses NRS to work productively – Australian Network on Disability
