Employment Support

The Shelforce employment support programme has been specifically developed to assist and encourage people with disabilities throughout each step of their journey towards training and employment.

Recruitment

Our first class recruitment support service includes:-

Free tailored recruitment service
Highly motivated and appropriately skilled staff specifically profiled and matched to your businesses requirements
Work Trials – Assess an individual against your requirements over a measured period
Experienced Job Coaches – Providing tailored coaching to individuals within a work setting
Mentoring – Working with individuals to empower them in their work
Ongoing Support to your business and new employee once in employment
Financial Contribution towards relevant training for new recruits
Regular reviews and monitoring to ensure support continues to meet your requirements and those of your employees

Employment Retention

Shelforce are eager to ensure that all organisations are aware of the benefits and support they can receive to ensure their employees stay with them even after sustaining a disability. Shelforce promote this through:-

Free employee retention service
Practical support to retain skilled employees within your organisation, who have a disability or have acquired a disability
Tailored support packages offering specific advice, i.e. Return to work plans, workplace adjustments, retraining and job coaching/mentoring to employees
Access to government grants towards the cost of workplace adjustments

Training and Development

The Shelforce bespoke training programmes are developed to meet the needs of your organisation by approaching disability equality in an honest and practical way that can be easily implemented into the workplace.

The following areas are covered:-

Disability Discrimination Act
Employment Law
Disability Awareness
Deaf Awareness

Consultation

Shelforce provides a full consultation support service which includes:-

Advice and Guidance around your responsibility to reasonable adjustments to the workplace
Available funding streams towards the cost of reasonable adjustments to the workplace
Specific Advice relating to individuals disabilities
Training and development opportunities that will benefit the entire workforce