Daily Comms
Tweeting everyday about language/ diagnosis/ seen/unseen disabilities (until 18th December) Target Audience: All Staff
South East regional events calendar
Tweeting everyday about language/ diagnosis/ seen/unseen disabilities (until 18th December) Target Audience: All Staff
Workshop to discuss issues and support relating to hidden impairments Target Audience: All Staff Speaker: Mitch Mitchell
Workshop to discuss Disability Confident organisations Target Audience: All Staff Speaker: Mitch Mitchell
Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-disability-history-month-2021-online-launch-tickets-187581941637
How to have better health and wellbeing conversations with Disabled staff Target Audience: All Staff Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzbUjFaL1q8/
What is neuro diversity How it manifests and what to look for How to improve interaction with colleagues with these conditions What to avoid Target Audience: All Staff / Systems Speaker: With Dr Andrew Maleknia – Counselling Psychologist Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/slTDN7CF9UeyIge0jXdO4w,mLI_p6CPN0u96cUJw8UQuQ,qTTnqM9S40m83pDfbO-cCg,QEYIocrFG027fTQoFoeKJQ,FGdHKGijcUeqeQsbdt19Lg,rDex4C5aPEK6i2ctlGYkqw?mode=read&tenantId=37c354b2-85b0-47f5-b222-07b48d774ee3
sharing ideas on what we could do as leaders to support inclusive talent management as well as tips for aspiring disabled leaders Target Audience: All Staff/NHS ED&I, HR, OD and Talent Management professionals and senior leaders who have a responsibility for ED&I, leadership and talent development within an organisation or across a system. Link: https://www.events.england.nhs.uk/events/disability-history-month-celebration---making-talent-management-inclusive-for-all/
Trustwide communications including links to Disability Network intranet pages Target Audience: All MTW staff
We want to empower all our people to feel confident in talking with colleagues about disability, whether they have a disability or work with a colleague that has a disability Target Audience: All staff / systems Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MWI1NTQwODgtODFiMy00N2MyLWE1MDEtOTVhOTEzNzBlMmQ0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2203159e92-72c6-4b23-a64a-af50e790adbf%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%225ce20ea6-c779-47ee-8399-70da0a7ef0e5%22%7d
Workshop to discuss HR role in developing a more inclusive workplace Target Audience: All staff Speaker: Mitch Mitchell Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ODk2MDFkMTItNjU4OC00YWY2LWJlNzctMzAzYTAzZTljZTgx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22f03b21c6-3e18-490e-b26b-799c5923ce5b%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22816b653b-0dff-46ff-95a2-b9fd9e322a23%22%7d
Disability stereotypes are prevalent in the workplace but what can be done to overcome them? Emma Cusick examines the disability employment gap, the effects of positive as well as negative stereotypes, and how businesses can help disabled people to gain employment and enjoy meaningful careers. Target Audience: All staff / systems Speaker: Pearn Kandola Link: […]
This webinar will look at the reality of disability representation and inclusion in society and the workplace, with a critical lens of the need for more action led ally-ship for all types of disabilities, differences and impairments. How can we as allies listen more, amplify the voices of those with lived experience, and take tangible […]
Join the ‘Active Ambassadors’ from Active Oxfordshire for their lived experience talk where they will share personal accounts and stories that piece together the journey a person with a disability goes through. In doing so, they will make us aware of the day-today adjustments disabled people have to make in their lives that others take […]
Article in weekly update promoting disability history month and what’s happening – highlighting chair of the disability network Target Audience: All staff
Oxford Health partnered with AccessAble, a provider of disabled-access information, to produce 93 Access Guides that give detailed information and pictures about access to our services, departments and wards to support disabled service users navigate around our sites. Each Access Guide is designed to give service users, particularly those with a disability, essential information about […]
Alex is a TV & radio presenter, Asperger's champion, public speaker, and author. He has a 'lust for life' and believes that you should never let your circumstances hold you back. To Alex, life is an adventure, and he is determined to spend it ‘pursuing his passions.’ Asperger's is a form of Autism, and although […]
Disability stereotypes are prevalent in the workplace but what can be done to overcome them? Emma Cusick examines the disability employment gap, the effects of positive as well as negative stereotypes, and how businesses can help disabled people to gain employment and enjoy meaningful careers. Target Audience: All staff Speaker: Hosted by January Newton-Baxendine, Disability […]
On this day we would encourage organisations to support the Purple Light Up initiative Target Audience: All Staff Link: https://www.purplespace.org/purple-light-up/get-involved
Launch of the human library at KCH Target Audience: All staff Speaker: Paul Bentley and Paul Deemer, Head of Equality and Diversity at NHS Employers
Disability Network Meeting (including promotion of materials and sessions from other organisations throughout the month) Target Audience: Predominantly disabled staff, carers and allies but open to all staff
We’re celebrating the end of our first ever Disability History Month with a special rainbow cuppa where our LGBT+ Equality Network Chairs, Ian and Andi invite us to look at the lives and experiences of people with a disability who are either from or identify with the LGBT+ community. This is a rarely discussed, but […]
Dr Stephen Duckworth OBE will be giving a talk from 12pm to 1pm on 'Disabled leaders; nothing about us, without us.' Founder and chief executive of Disability Matters Limited, a research and consultancy business with expertise in health and safety, sustainability and diversity with an emphasis on access and mobility, Stephen’s lived experience as a […]
Manoj Soma Manoj is an innovator and social entrepreneur, passionate about promoting equality, diversity, inclusion and disability sports in the UK and overseas. He is a Diversity Consultant and founder of Choice International a notfor-profit organisation. Manoj also plays Wheelchair Tennis at both national and international level, and coaches in tennis and inclusive basketball. Manoj […]