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People with long-term and energy limiting conditions are an asset to the workplace. They’re qualified, highly skilled, and creative thinkers who add value to any industry or organisation, and they’re seeking meaningful work with inclusive employers like you.
Did you know that…
Making Employment Work For People With Long-Term Conditions Report (Astriid, 2023)
Our work as a charity has illuminated the many barriers faced by people with such conditions when they are seeking work. However, the biggest barrier of all is a profound knowledge gap – businesses and employers are looking to recruit, employ and sustain diverse talent, but don’t yet have the understanding or skills to empower employees with long-term and energy limiting conditions in the workplace.
Here at Astriid, we have unrivalled expertise in long-term and energy limiting conditions. Through our combination of lived experience, extensive knowledge, and pioneering research, we offer industry-leading training to organisations and leadership teams who are working to improve their workplace inclusion.
Through our training, we cover:
Improving your knowledge and management of long-term conditions in the workplace isn’t just a tick-box exercise for your DEI strategy. Instead, it’s an essential element of preparing your organisation for the future, as the number of skilled people with such conditions in the workforce continues to rise.
If you’re ready to take action, let us partner with you to transform this challenge into an opportunity for your organisation to flourish. Get in touch today to register your details, and we look forward to working with you soon!
Our training for employers and organisations centres on three key areas:
All of our training is designed and delivered by lived experience experts – people with long-term conditions who have experienced profound barriers in employment and recruitment themselves, who are now developing innovative solutions and training employers to become frontrunners in this area. We focus on not only sharing the barriers and information you should be aware of, but the people and the real-life impact behind them. Through our interactive and engaging training sessions, you’ll hear directly from case studies from a diverse range of backgrounds, and discover how much of a difference even the most actionable of changes can make.
If you want to attract diverse talent to your organisation, it’s essential that your recruitment processes are inclusive. Through this session, you’ll learn how to create accessible job advertisements, make adjustments to the application and interview process, respond appropriately to disclosures of long-term conditions and facilitate confident conversations, and plenty more.
The number of people with long-term conditions entering the workforce, and people developing such conditions during their working life, is increasing at a rapid rate. During this workshop, we will explore taking a person-centred approach to workplace adjustments, improving lines of communication between employees and line managers, adapting inclusion strategies to improve staff retention rates, ways of evaluating your current workplace culture and lived experiences of people with long-term conditions in your workforce, and plenty more.
Workplace flexibility is crucial for attracting skilled people with long-term conditions to businesses. This training dives into the specifics in this area, highlighting reasonable adjustments that can break down access barriers, ways to implement personalised support for employees, and how to reduce the risk of masking or burnout to facilitate their wellbeing over the longer term – and can all be communicated online at a time, place, and pace that suits you.
Do you know how to talk about long-term conditions in the workplace? Through Astriid’s Inclusive Language Training, you will become familiar with key terms and narratives surrounding long-term conditions, that are often omitted from traditional disability inclusion training, and how your language use and communication styles can empower employees managing such conditions in your workforce.
Head of Consulting
Catherine has ten years of disability inclusion leadership, policy and research expertise. She is a thought-leader in long-term and energy-limiting conditions in the workplace and Founder of Chronic Illness Inclusion.
Associate Consultant
Alison is an experienced Training Consultant, Facilitator and Coach with lived experience of chronic illness. She has worked in HR, and then Learning and Development for an international city law firm before freelancing mainly with top law firms and the public sector. Alison has an MSc in Organizational Behaviour and is CIPD qualified.
Charity CEO
Steve has led the Astriid charity since its launch by the founder, David Shutts OBE, in 2018. His career has been centred on business consultancy and marketing, and he now has responsibility for the development of effective corporate relationships.
Communications Consultant
Pippa is a writer, speaker, and content creator who's named as one of the most influential disabled people in the UK. She has a particular interest in inclusive and sustainable employment practice for people with energy-limiting conditions like her own.
Researcher
Katy is a keen researcher with experience in the non-profit sector. Her area of interest is in improving workplace accessibility for those with long-term health conditions. She is an advocate for disability inclusion, derived from her own lived experience and from her role in Astriid's Job Matching team where she helps candidates access meaningful work.