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Supporting staff through reasonable adjustments: Training for Line Managers

24 August 2022

Training is now available for staff with line-management responsibilities to increase confidence in and awareness of supporting Disabled and Neurodivergent staff with and through, reasonable adjustments.

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In response to the recently published new hybrid working guidance, trainining is available to staff with line-management responsibilities with Disabled and Neurdodivergent staff to support them with awareness and implementation of reasonable adjustments. 

The training will be delivered by Dr Lizzy Allman (EDI Manager and Disability Equity Lead), and will cover the following areas:

  • The Social Model of Disability and the importance of reasonable adjustments
  • The law and the legal requirements for reasonable adjustments
  • How to provide appropriate support for Disabled and Neurodivergent staff
  • Support available at UCL for line managers and Disabled and Neurodivergent staff

The sessions will be 2 hours with a short break midway, and will be run via Microsoft Teams on the following dates:

  • Wednesday October 19th 10:30am-12:30pm
  • Thursday 3rd November 2:00pm-4:00pm
  • Wednesday 23rd November 2:00pm-4:00pm
  • Tuesday 6th December 10:30am-12:30pm
  • Thursday 15th December 10:30am-12:30pm

If you are interested, please register your interest via this link.

Please note that places are limited to 25 per session. We expect sessions to be oversubscribed, so please do not register unless you are confident of being able to honour your booking. Anyone registering after capacity has been reached, will be placed on a waiting list.

If you are unable to attend for any reason,  please let us know immediately via email (lizzy.allman@ucl.ac.uk) so we can allocate your place to someone else.

Further details and a link to the respective Teams meeting links will be sent out ahead of your session. In the meantime, if you would like to promote or encourage your team members to join the Disabled and Neurodivergent staff networks, please find a link to the information here. 

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