Employment Plus for Employers

Could you employ a person with a learning disability or autism?

Employing a person with a learning disability or autism can add real social and economic value to your business

Please take a few moments to read the information below and consider whether your business could employ a person with a learning disability or autism

Businesses have said that employees with a learning disability or autism are:
• Committed and eager to achieve
• Have a good attendance records and are punctual
• Are loyal and stick at their job
Employing a person with a learning disability or autism may also:

• Improve your public image and raise your company profile
• Provide your business with more diverse workforce
• Improve your staff’s awareness of disability issues and improve their ability to work with a person with a disability and to help them deal more effectively with customers who have a disability
• Help to comply with the disability Discrimination Act
• Comply with the Social Value Act
As an employer you may have concerns about employing a person with a learning disability or autism. Staff from Employment Plus can support the person and the employer throughout the recruitment process

• We can support the person in the workplace and offer support to their supervisor or manager
• When the person is settled in their workplace, monitoring, training support and advice will still be available
• The work needs to be appropriate for the skills of the person
• There are certain jobs that a person with a learning disability or autism is particularly suited to for example, routine / repetitive tasks are more suitable
• Job Carving is a process of looking at the tasks within a job role and matching them to an individual’s skills and abilities. It provides a flexible way of managing a workforce and allows managers to utilise their employee’s skills in the most productive way. More importantly it enables people with a disability to make a valuable contribution to the work force
• Ideally a job would be for 16 hours a week. This means the person is financially better off than on benefits. However some job seekers would like to work just a few hours a week.
Please note that this support is a free service to the employer