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Recruitment resources from Business West

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Business West
Webinars and workshops

From the "Guide to Workforce Planning and Skills", to "Using your company story to attract and retain the best talent", discover the best webinars and workshops to improve your workforce recruitment and retention.

Business West
Written resources

From understanding the education landscape, to guides to effectively using internships, discover Business West's written guides.

Accessible recruitment guidance - guides for hiring and recruiting people with a disability

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Leonard Cheshire
An employer’s guide to creating more opportunities with disabled people

Talented people aren’t always where you expect to find them. (PDF)

Disability Confident
Recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

A practical guide for line managers. (PDF)

Leonard Cheshire
Reimagining the workplace: disability and inclusive employment

React to a changed and changing workforce. (PDF)

Training resources - guides to become a disability confident employer

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Disability Confident - Level 1

Hiring good people is good business - Level 1 (PDF)

Disability Confident - Level 2

Hiring good people is good business - Level 2. (PDF)

Disability Confident - Level 3

Hiring good people is good business - Level 3. (PDF)

Accessibility guidance - resources for creating accessible workplaces, services, events and communications

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Civil Service HR
A guide to accessible virtual meetings

Docx

EHRC
Event planning - engaging with disabled people

PDF

Gov.uk
Accessible communications guide

Government website

Gov.uk
Inclusive language guide

Gov.uk, PDF

Gov.uk
Making your service accessible

Government website

BDAA
Bristol Dementia Action Alliance

SME access to free Dementia awareness support.

"We are very excited about the opportunity of working with Workforce for the Future and HR Champions.  This has given us the opportunity to offer training to staff that we have been planning and “wishing” for but have not been able to afford or find suitable opportunities to provide.   We are also really pleased with the enthusiasm that staff have shown towards this and their potential take up of  the training.  It is a great development opportunity for us."

Additional support from our partners

UWE work with organisations to co-create innovative custom programmes to develop leaders and teams and support organisations to reach their goals. Using our academic expertise ad industry knowledge we’ll work with you to understand your challenge and design a programme that provides impact. Contact Execed@uwe.ac.uk.

UWE offers a wide range of short courses for professional development from leadership, coaching and mentoring and digital marketing to big data and cloud computing. Their courses bend academic expertise with industry knowledge to offer flexible learning solutions for individuals to help advance careers. Contact Execed@uwe.ac.uk.

As part of our ongoing work, any business that has taken part in the Workforce for the Future project are able to access a 20% discount on Leonard Cheshire’s Training and Consultancy services for the next year until the end of September 2024.

If you would like to take advantage of this offer, Please contact the Training and Consultancy team on training@leonardcheshire.org and quote “Workforce for the Future”.

Want more support?

Contact the Growth Hub team

We are a free and impartial service open to all businesses, from all sectors. We can support you with advice on financial and business matters, technology and innovation, leadership and management, and workforce development, as well as developing a greener business.

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