Becoming disability confident helps remove barriers for job seekers and staff with disability and supports your agency to become an employer of choice.
A disability confident hiring manager:
- has the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to create an accessible, safe and inclusive recruitment process for people with disability
- actively seeks ways to ensure equal opportunities by removing barriers that prevent people with disability from fully participating in recruitment and employment processes
- partners with their human resources team to create a recruitment process where all candidates can showcase their unique talents and skills.
What actions can I consider?
- Build your understanding of inclusive recruitment processes through training, workshops and resources.
- Complete the training. This online learning promotes awareness of disability and the impact of societal attitudes and inherent stigma and discrimination on the lives of people with disability. It includes a section on disability and employment.
- Partner with your human resources team to identify and and hazards in the workplace and within recruitment processes. These may include attitudinal, physical, communications and social barriers.
- Understand your legal obligations when a candidate identifies as a person with disability or .
- Get to know the services for staff with disability including the and
- Have open conversations with job candidates. If you are unsure about a candidate’s accessibility requirements, ask them to explain their needs rather than assuming what they need.
- Encourage your colleagues to also become a .
Where can I learn more?
Familiarise yourself with these toolkits and resources that are referred to throughout this guide:
- JobAccess –
- Australian Human Rights Commission -
- Australian Human Rights Commission –
- National Disability Services –
- – Resource Hub
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