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Disability Confident: Ambassadors for Inclusion

Prepared by: Tony Collins & Anna Wharfe

Prepared for: INTOWORK CONVENTION 2017

Date: 5th & 6th July

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The voices of disability confidence at Remploy

1. Remploy has Disability Confident Leader Status

2. We currently have a growing number of 9 disability ambassadors

spread around the UK

3. Our ambassadors seek to continuously improve our internal

policies & procedures and are a resource for our internal

colleagues & external partners

4. We support 100’s of national, regional & local organisations to

become even disability confident & guide them through the levels

5. Through our programmes & partnerships we successfully introduce

organisations to a talent pool of people who are ready, willing and

able to work (disabled talent)

6. We are happy to take questions at the end of our presentation

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Introduction

My name is Tony Collins

I am the learning disability

Ambassador for Remploy

Today I would like to talk about

Remploy Ambassadors

What I do in my role

And why its so important to me

to be an Ambassador

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So what do I do in my role at Remploy?

In my role I do the following

Public speaking

Training workshops

Easy read

And webinars

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I wouldn’t be able to do my role without

some reasonable adjustments in place

I have flexible working hours as sometimes

I find it difficult to concentrate for too long

I have a Job Coach who

supports me in my role

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And I had a working interview to get my job

This was really important as without this

I might never have succeeded in getting

my job in the first place

As the usual way of interviewing is

just too difficult for me

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People like me find it really hard to talk about

how good they would be in the job

The working interview allowed me to

show how good I would be

A working interview is an easy

reasonable adjustment to put in place

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So what is a Remploy Ambassador

Remploy Ambassadors are a team of Remploy employees

and other people in employment

With life experience of disability

We work with employers and partners to help

them become more disability confident

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We go around the country talking

to people and organisations

To let them know that people with disabilities

make great employees

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Our aim is to have ambassadors

in every region of the UK

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So we can inspire other disabled people

And help employers to understand

more about disability

So they can do more to support

disabled people into work

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Why is this so important to me?

The employment rate for people with

learning disabilities is only 6%

This is far too low !

Being an Ambassador can help

raise this figure

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And we can help employers to know more about

reasonable adjustments

This is so important as with a few

simple adjustments

Employers would not miss out having

some great employees

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In the past I have worked in a leisure centre

and was paid in tokens from the lockers

I also worked in a clothes store

where I was paid in coat hangers

Why do you think I was paid in this way?

Do you think you would have

been paid in this way?

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Some of the reasons I wanted

to be a Remploy Ambassador are..

I think its really important that people like me

are treated fairly, the same as everyone else

And valued as a member of society

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I know that with good support people with

learning disabilities make great employees

We work hard and give 100% in the job

I want everyone else to know this too !

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How can I help you?

I can help you become disability confident.

I can deliver webinars and workshops about

Learning disability awareness

Reasonable adjustments

And good support for people like me.

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I can put your documents into easy read

or train members of your team to do this.

I can visit your business to see if the adjustments

you offer would work for people with

learning disabilities.

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I can speak at your event about learning disability and

work and health, to promote good practice.

If you work with Remploy we will make sure

you truly are disability confident

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I would like to end by saying

People with learning disabilities

Can work

Will work and

Want to work

Thank you for listening

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Introduction

My name is Anna Wharfe

I am the Mental Health

Ambassador for Remploy

What I do in my role as a SR Manager

& Ambassador

Today I would like to talk about

my ambassador work

And why its so important to me

to be an Ambassador

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Some Facts about Disability

• Disability prevalence increases

with age 6% children 16% of

working age adults 45%of

adults over State Pension age

• More than half of recruitment

websites offer no accessibility

features and provide no

equality or diversity

information.

• At least 1 in 3 employees in

the UK is disabled or close to

someone who has a disability

• Spending power of £212 Billion

Apsco

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So what do I do in my role at Remploy?

In my role I do the following:

I work with Partner Organisations to share employer opportunities

I help to deliver internal training and external partner education

I deliver webinars to external partners

I audit other organisations application to become Disability confident

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Workplace Adjustments

I wouldn’t be able to do my role without

some workplace adjustments in place

I received an adjustment to the interview

format taking my Anxiety into account

I work a compressed week and have the flexibility

to use my non working day in the event I am having a ‘bad day’

I have a regular catch ups with my line manager

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Reason I wanted to be a Remploy Ambassador

The 3 P’s Of Our Purple Platform

Just a council house kid from Oldham

One In Four & other Hidden Disabilities

And valued as a member of society

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Juan Peron : Argentinian President

Mejor que decir es

hacer …

(Better to do than to

say)

Mejor que prometer es

realizar …

(Better to carry out than

to promise).

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When Employers get it right…

Annual ERSA awards event

Our Employer partner

TCFM won ‘Large

Employer Of The Year’

award for their excellent

work with disabled and

disadvantaged people

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Things Disability Confident Organisations do

• Analyse where they source

candidates from

• Ensure their websites/

recruitment portals are

accessible

• Promote diversity clearly on

their website & recruitment

material

• Use internal disability networks

to promote your diversity

externally/ best practice

• Are flexible around recruitment

pathways

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Contact details

If you would like to know more

please feel free to contact us at

Tony Collins

Learning Disability Ambassador [email protected]

Tel no 07824498495

Anna Wharfe

Supplier Relationship Manager

Email [email protected]

Tel no 07824839578

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