Welcome to the Building Employer Confidence to recruit and retain employees with communication access requirements – resource hub.
These resources have been developed by Scope in partnership with Thriving Communities Australia. The resources should be used alongside the eLearning modules to support your understanding of how to embed the practices in your organisation.
The resources provided are grouped into the stages of the employment lifecycle:
- Attraction
- Recruitment
- Onboarding
- Development and Retention
- Offboarding
as well as a group of general resources.
General
- Building Employer Confidence: Introduction guide
- Reasonable Adjustments across the employment lifecycle
- Scripts for talking about reasonable adjustments across the lifecycle
- Inclusive meeting/interview protocols
- Tech and software platform accessibility
- Feedback and complaints
- Feedback and complaints: Activity
- Writing emails in plain language
- Build your own action plan: Activity
Attraction
- Job Design
- Diversity Statements
- Position Descriptions
- Position Descriptions: Activity
- Essential and Desirable Criteria
- Essential and Desirable Criteria: Activity
- Reasonable Adjustments: Activity
Recruitment
Onboarding
Development and Retention
- Reasonable adjustments: Activity
- Key Performance Indicators and Performance Management Reviews
- Development Opportunities
- Non-work Events
- Non-work Events: Activity
Offboarding
Acknowledgements: This project is made possible by an Information Linkages and Capacity Building Projected funded by the Commonwealth of Australia, represented by the Department of Social Services. Scope acknowledges the valuable contributions of all of our project partners. This includes people with a lived experience of communication disability, Thriving Communities Australia and national pilot organisations across banking, utilities and telecommunications companies.