Accessible Recruitment & Employment Practices

Is your organisation looking to attract, recruit and retain Deaf employees?

Sign Solutions can offer advice, support and solutions to enable your business to fill job vacancies with talented Deaf applicants.

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Job adverts

Helping ensure your job adverts are accessible and displayed in the right places.

Interview process

Checking your interview process gives all candidates an equal opportunity to showcase their talent.

Training and inductions

Assessing whether your training and induction processes are fully inclusive.

Accessibility

Ensuring your Deaf employees have access to interpreting services and are offered other reasonable adjustments as appropriate.

Our employer's guide provides detailed guidance on

Making your recruitment and employment practices accessible and safe for Deaf employees
Applying and managing Access to Work grants for Interpretation
Working with and booking Interpreters and other communication support
Support to becoming a Disability Confident Employer
Upskilling staff in Deaf Awareness training

Increase your team’s Deaf Awareness

Enrol your staff onto one of our Deaf Awareness training courses to ensure new Deaf employees feel welcome, and staff have the confidence to break down any communication barriers.

Increase your website accessibility

Enable your Deaf staff and customers to contact you when they need to by having InterpretersLive! on your internal staff intranet or external website.

Thank you so much for sending two outstanding signers. They were excellent. I would definitely recommend them

CAFCASS

Sign Solutions should be proud of their team to help Deaf people like me

Hamza

I am always thankful for Kim, as she is so helpful for booking appointments for our customers with interpreters

Sam – Scope

Access to Work grants can cover the cost of Interpreters and other reasonable adjustments.

Supporting and enabling Deaf employees to access employment opportunities and providing them with equal opportunities at work is the responsibility of every organisation under the Equalities Act 2010.

Sign Solutions can offer use of our video and in-person BSL Interpreters to ensure their Deaf employees can participate, be independent and be included in day-to-day work environments. This may be to:

Make phone calls when they need to
Participate in meetings and training
Engage fully with their clients and colleagues.

Access to Work will usually fund any necessary ‘reasonable adjustments’, including the provision of in-person and video remote Interpreters and other types of communication support. We can also support organisations in making their employee helplines accessible to their Deaf employees by adding a video relay service link on their intranet pages.