Recruitment and Management of People with Disability Training

Do you want to expand your hiring pool to ensure you hire the best talent? Or do you need to develop your understanding of disability to support a new hire, or staff member who’s recently disclosed their disability? 

CYDA’s Recruitment and Management of People with Disability training is for managers, executives, directors, people and culture, diversity equity and inclusion and human resources professionals. 

Through this training you will: 

• Understand the challenges that people with disability face in the workplace 

• Know how to appropriately talk about disability with employees 

• Know how to discuss and navigate reasonable adjustments in the workplace 

• Understand your legal rights and entitlements as an employer 

• Gain resources and information to support changes to your policies, processes and built environments 

• Have strategies about to adapt your recruitment and hiring processes for accessibility 

• Have strategies about how to retain and support employees with disability 

Training details: 

• Dates:

  • Tuesday, 24 February 2026 

  • Tuesday, 5 May 2026

  • Tuesday, 14 July 2026

  • Tuesday, 22 September 2026

  • Tuesday, 1 December 2026

• Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm AEDT  

• Location: Online via Zoom (Link sent before the event) 

• Cost: General Rate: $400 + GST. | NFP Staff/Student Rate: $240 + GST.  

  • Note: Limited placements at discounted rates are available for this training, if you can reasonably afford paying at a higher tier, we would encourage this to ensure discounted placements are available for those who need it. 

Accessibility:

Public delivery of this training takes place online using automated captions, with materials and a range of resources sent out in advanced to give people time to prepare. This training is delivered in plain language with screen reader friendly documents available, and will provide examples of easy read materials, access guides and other accessibility.  
 
If you have any questions about the accessibility of this training or would like to contact us to explore what training is right for you and your team, please email our Senior Programs and Training Coordinator Lucy Solonsch at lucysolonsch@cyda.org.au or call 1800 222 660 or (03) 9417 1025