Disability Awareness and Compliance in Recruitment

Course Overview

Improve your organisation’s hiring practices with our Disability Awareness and Compliance Training in Recruitment, delivered as in-person instructor-led training.

This course supports HR professionals, recruiters, and hiring managers in delivering inclusive and legally compliant recruitment processes in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Participants will learn how to remove barriers in recruitment, respond appropriately to disability disclosure, and design fair, inclusive hiring processes that attract diverse talent.

This inclusive recruitment training course helps organisations reduce legal risk, improve candidate experience, and strengthen their commitment to inclusive employment.

This course takes delegates through the Disability Confident Scheme in a broader, more practical way, including what the scheme involves, how it works in practice, its different tiers, and the benefits of joining.

Course Details:

• Duration: Half-day day
• Format: Onsite at your organisation or remote using Teams
• Customisation: Tailored to your sector, using relevant examples and reporting processes

Key Topics Covered are:

Understanding disability in recruitment

1. Visible and non-visible disabilities
2. Disability barriers within recruitment processes
3. Neurodiversity and mental health in recruitment contexts

Equality Act overview in recruitment

1. Equality Act overview
2. Definition of disability under the Equality Act 2010
3. Types of discrimination in recruitment
4. Discrimination arising from disability
5. Legal boundaries on asking health/disability-related questions
6. What recruiters and hiring managers need to know
7. Case law examples and practical risks in recruitment

Confident and compliant conversations – role play scenarios

1. Responding to disability disclosure
2. ‘Do’s’ and ‘don’ts’
3. Confident and compliant phrasing when talking about disability
4. How to ask about support needs appropriately

Inclusive recruitment practice

1. Inclusive job adverts
2. Essential and desirable criteria
3. Disability disclosure
4. Responding appropriately to disclosure
5. Guaranteed interview schemes
6. Disability Confident scheme – why it is important?

Practical application and takeaways

1. Recruitment scenarios and discussion
2. Review of good practice and common mistakes
3. Creation of Inclusive Recruitment Checklist
4. Questions and discussion

Course Fee

Up to 6 attendees: £545

Please enquire about courses for more than 6 attendees