We provide employers with a comprehensive range of practical advice and guidance on employing people who are visually impaired. We offer a range of services to both employers and blind and partially sighted people who are seeking advice about gaining employment or retaining an employee.
Our support package for employers includes:-
Visual Awareness Training
Helps you and your employees to understand how best to support visually impaired colleagues. With two million blind and partially sighted people across the UK, businesses that ignore visually impaired customers are missing out. Whatever the type of business, visually impaired people will want to access the service, and how staff respond to their needs determines how likely they are to use the service again.
Financial support
Through schemes such as Access to Work and Workstep. Employers seeking to recruit a blind or partially sighted employee, or retain an employee, who has lost their sight, may qualify for financial assistance under the various schemes run by Job Centre Plus.
Access Technology
Large screen monitors, screen magnification systems such as Lunar or Zoomtext, CCTV, Electronic Braille Display, Braille keyboards and Embossers, (a Braille printer). Assistive technology has enabled blind and partially sighted people to access jobs in the sectors where the use of information and communication technologies feature significantly. Breaking down the barriers