Jobs with Birmingham City Council
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Application Forms and Job Details in Accessible Formats
Our priority is to ensure Birmingham City Council Jobs are accessible, which is why we offer alternative information formats (i.e. large print, audio and/or Braille). To request job information packs, application forms and our how to apply guidance in these formats please telephone 0121 464 1111 (8am to 8pm Monday to Friday) only. If you need support using our job site please telephone 0121 675 7070.
Disability Employment Team
Birmingham City Council wants to make sure that our job vacancies are open to everyone to apply. The Disability Employment Team offer support to help people with a disability to identify and ellimiate the any potential barriers that could prevent people with a disability from accessing employment with us. The team provides on-going support by offering a range of services to help people with disabilities gain and receive on-going support during their employment, including ensuring that reasonable adjustments are made prior to you commencing work. Please see the Disability Employment Team Leaflet below for full details on the range of services provided and contact information.
Employing Disabled People - Our Commitment To Applicants
We value the contribution made by disabled people in planning and delivering services to Birmingham's citizens.
We are striving to develop a workforce that reflects the population we serve and, unfortunately, disabled people are currently underrepresented amongst our employees. Therefore, we actively welcome applicants from disabled people. Please visit our jobs site at birmingham.gov.uk/jobs to search jobs and to apply.
Our employment practices for disabled people are based on the social model of disability and seek to go beyond legal minimum. The social model recognises that society, and not an individual with impairment, creates disability. People with impairments are disabled by, for example, an environment that is not accessible and the 'problem' or issues to be addressed rest with society and not with the individual concerned.
Our language seeks to reflect our commitment to this social model. We therefore use the term 'disabled people' in order to describe our view that people are disabled by society.
We aim to eliminate unlawful and unfair discrimination from all our policies, procedures and practices and our commitment to you is to:
* Take appropriate positive action to increase the number of disabled people applying and being interviewed for vacancies.
* Make 'reasonable adjustments' to the recruitment and selection process, the job or the workplace to accommodate the needs of disabled applicants and employees e.g. by using fully accessible interview venues and providing suitable aids or equipment.
* Ensure that disabled people are able to reach their full potential as employees and receive equal consideration for training and other development opportunities.
* Ensure that disabled people are treated fairly and equitably during recruitment and at work. Procedures are in place to support this process and to assist applicants and employees to seek redress if they feel that they have been treated unfairly.
* Endeavour to retain and retrain as necessary employees who become disabled or whose disability deteriorates.
* Regularly review policy, procedures and working practices in consultation with disabled employees and other organisations in order to develop good practice.
Disabled people have a great deal to offer the Department in delivering quality services to the people of Birmingham. We readily acknowledge this and, through the above actions, will work to ensure that our workforce is truly reflective of the people we serve.
If you have any queries or comments, please telephone us on the contact number included in the job application pack.
We look forward to receiving your application.