ACCESS: Gissa job: D/deaf and Disabled People in the Workplace

• Anyone working in theatre who is managing staff, or who is responsible for recruiting and engaging people to work in the organisation, including artistic personnel.

LEARNING OUTCOMES – AT THE END OF THIS COURSE YOU WILL 

• be able to approach conversations with D/deaf or disabled colleagues with confidence
• know what information you need to gather in order to meet a D/deaf or disabled colleague’s requirements
• be able to state your main duties under the Equality Act (2010) with rregard to employing D/deaf and disabled people
• have the beginnings of an action plan for ensuring equality in recruitment and employment practices
• have ideas for where to go for further information

Michèle Taylor is Director for Change at Ramps on the Moon, the Arts Council funded consortium of mid-scale mainstream theatres seeking to increase the number and visibility of D/deaf and disabled people in the industry. She has been delivering training in disability issues for nearly thirty years and has a background as a theatre practitioner, including work with Graeae Theatre. She is committed to ensuring that D/deaf and disabled people’s stories are told in our theatres.

Michèle’s training sessions are interactive and dynamic, with space to bring doubts, anxieties and concerns as well as strategies, ideas and enthusiasm.

Michèle is a registered member of the Institute of Equality and Diversity Practitioners.