Disability and Health Conditions

My Career Enriched has a Pathway called MyPlus: Applying to roles with a disability. This pathway can help with building confidence when applying to roles and opportunities and includes activities to help communicate your strengths, disclose your disability, create an openness statement and request recruitment process adjustments. 

You can take a look at the MyPlus Students' Club website here. 

Disclosing your disability or health condition is very much a matter of personal choice.  

You may find some of your concerns answered in our information sheet disclosing your disability.  

Other useful sources of information regarding disclosure:  

• Prospects - how to disclose a disability in a cover letter. 
• Targetjobs- disclosing a disability to employers. 
• Disability Rights UK- fact sheet: "telling people about your impairment". 
• Scope – Mentioning disability in your application. 
• AGCAS - Explaining your mental health condition 

Employers must make "reasonable adjustments" to ensure disabled employees are not treated less favourably. These adjustments can include accessibility support or changes in assessment formats, starting from the application stage. Access to Work (ATW) provides government funding for reasonable adjustments in the workplace, such as computer software, special equipment, note-takers, or taxi fares if public transport isn't an option. 
 

• What reasonable adjustments are - Reasonable adjustments at work - Acas 
• Reasonable adjustments - neurodiversity 
• Reasonable adjustments at work - Scope 
• British Dyslexia Association – requesting reasonable adjustments 

• MyPlus Students’ Club 
• Leonard Cheshire Change 100 
• Mind 
• BlindInBusiness 
• Gov.uk – Get help at work if you’re disabled or have a health condition 
• Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK 
• Personal Independence Payment - Citizens Advice