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Recruitment Plus| is a service designed to make it easier for disabled people and those with health conditions, who want to work, to apply for jobs.
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The City Council welcomes applications from all sectors of the community and we particularly wish to employ more people with disabilities within our workforce. We want to support you through the application process.
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Gloucester City Council is committed to offering fair and equal opportunities to applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process and would endeavour to provide additional help and support where needed.
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If you believe that you are disabled under the definitions given within the Act please tick the appropriate box on the back of the application form. This will help us to ensure that you are given all the help and support possible throughout the selection process and, if successful, your employment with us.
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All job applicants are strongly advised to read this before completing the relevant section/s on the application form.
Defining a disabled person - a person has a disability if s/he has a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his/her ability to carry out normal day to day activities. People who have had disabilities in the past are included.
What impairment covers - it covers physical impairment (including sensory impairments such as visual or hearing impairment) and mental impairment (which includes a range of impairments relating to mental functioning including learning disabilities, life long conditions such as Downs Syndrome and mental illness such as depression).
Substantial adverse effect - something which has more than a minor or a trivial effect and is beyond the normal differences in ability which exist among people.
A long term effect - of an impairment is one which has lasted or is likely to last for at least twelve months or for the rest of the life of the person. It excludes the loss of mobility due, for example, to a broken leg which is likely to heal within twelve months or a long term illness which a person is likely to recover from within twelve months.
Sometimes the effects of an impairment disappear for a while then return (i.e. they fluctuate). Such conditions are covered by the definition as long as the substantial adverse effects are more likely than not to come back again.
Normal day-to-day activities - are those carried out by most people on a daily or regular basis. It does not include activities which are normal only for a particular person or group of people such as playing musical equipment or a sport to a professional standard or performing a skilled or specialist task at work. One or more of the following must be affected in a substantial and adverse way:·
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Mobility
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Manual dexterity
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Physical co-ordination
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Continence
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Ability to lift, carry or otherwise move everyday objects
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Speech, hearing or eyesight (excluding people who wear spectacles)
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Memory or ability to concentrate, learn or understand; or · perception of the risk of physical danger
People with severe disfigurement - are covered by the Act. They do not need to demonstrate that the impairment has a substantial adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day to day activities.
People with progressive illness - some progressive conditions such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV infection count as a disability from when a person first develops the condition. Other types of progressive conditions (e.g. motor neurone disease) are covered as soon as the condition has some effect on a persons ability to carry out normal day to day activities.
Gloucester City Council will consider reasonable adjustment to support the employment of disabled people.
Recruitment Plus| is a service designed to make it easier for disabled people and those with health conditions, who want to work, to apply for jobs.
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