Links to sites relating to employment
Access to Work. “As well as giving advice and information to disabled people and employers, AtW pays a grant … towards any extra employment costs that result from a disability.”
We can get some help towards costs of special equipment (I imagine this might include electronic stethoscopes and aids to help us in meetings and with telephones and pagers) and support workers such as note-takers, lip-speakers and interpreters to sign, for example.
The Department of Work and Pensions website has been restructured and I haven’t yet found a useful page there about AtW so this link is to information on the RNID website.
Looking for work, Access to Work and the Disability Discrimination Act. This link is to a factsheet on the RNID website. It includes information about “reasonable adjustments” such as providing equipment, communication support, time off for appointments and to learn new skills such as lip-reading and when a job should be modified to take into account a deaf employee’s needs.
Disability Discrimination Act. This link is to a factsheet on the RNID website. Written for employers, it has information about best practice in recruiting and employing deaf, deafened and hard of hearing staff. It explains about “reasonable adjustments” such as providing equipment, communication support, time off for appointments and to learn new skills such as lip-reading and when a job should be modified to take into account a deaf employee’s needs. (This link needs to be updated as the DDA has been superceded by the Equalities Act.)
Forum for OTs with disabilities. This excellent website includes information that will be useful for those of us in other professions as well as OTs. Packed with helpful links and resources. Includes a discussion forum for OTs with disabilities. There are links to resources about employment and training.
Reasonable adjustments in nursing and midwifery. A literature review. NMC March 2009.
Guidance for mentors of nursing students and midwives. An RCN toolkit.
GMC. The GMC requires any doctor whose health might put patients at risk to follow advice from an occupational health department. Go to the ethical guidance section of their website and click on “guidance,” “Good Medical Practice” and “Health.”
Association of Lipspeakers. A lipspeaker is a hearing person trained to repeat a speaker’s message to lipreaders accurately, without using their voice. A lipspeaker may be employed to aid communication between lipreaders and hearing people in a range of situations such as education and training, conferences and meetings, job interviews.