Disability Support at West Yorkshire Combined Authority

The Combined Authority has signed up to the Disability Confident scheme and is taking a number of actions to be a Disability Confident Employer.  We hope that in being signed up to the scheme we will attract, recruit and retain disabled workers.

Colleagues have access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme 24 hours a day 7 days a week and 365 days of the year, provided by Health Assured.

The Combined Authority has a Workplace Adjustments policy and Passport. This ‘Passport’ is a living record of the reasonable adjustments agreed between a disabled employee and their line manager. This enables the holder of the passport to:

• Ensure that both parties; the individual and the employer, have an accurate record of what has been agreed
• Minimise the need to re-negotiate reasonable adjustments every time the employee changes jobs, is re-located or assigned a new manager within the organisation
• Identify the impact on others from the agreed adjustments
• Provide employees and their line managers with the basis for discussions about reasonable adjustments at future meetings.

Disabled staff network group; WeCAN.