Doctors with disabilities

Legislation (the Disability Discrimination Act) is in place to help doctors with disabilities and chronic conditions to work, putting the onus on employers to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees and providing government funding for aids and building modifications (funding follows the disabled employee).

Things that help ill or disabled doctors:

• Good mentoring schemes and good mentors
• Early identification of difficulties faced by individuals and their organisations
• Positive and flexible mindset
• Flexible working patterns and revision of task allocation
• Positive leadership and willingness to discuss difficulties
• Use of the Disability Discrimination Act to the funding and resources
• Disabled role models

The University of Southampton Careers Destinations| has a series of useful handouts for students with disabilities.

If you are a disabled applicant you are guaranteed an interview, providing you meet the essential criteria of the job advertised. This will be outlined in the Person Specification for the post. The Trust will make reasonable adjustments to all stages of the recruitment process and to our jobs in order to make them more accessible to applicants who have a disability.

Support

BMA Counselling Service - www.bma.org.uk|
Doctor's Support Network - www.dsn.org.uk|

Treatment

The Sick Doctors Trust - www.sick-doctors-trust.co.uk|

Finance

Royal Medical Benevolent Fund - www.rmbf.org.uk|
BMA Charities - www.bma.org.uk|