Accessibility in the Recruitment & Employment Process
Every person has the right to feel safe and be treated fairly. This includes people with disability. Human rights are for everyone. They remind us that every person matters. No matter who you are or what your life is like, you have the right to be treated with respect and dignity.
Learn more about disability in the workplace via the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Find the Australian Human Rights Commission’s resources for people with disability seeking employment, progressing their career or considering self-employment.
Available for free online here.
Accessibility – Finding and applying for a job at Caringa Australia LTD
Need help with your application?
If you need any help or changes to make the application easier for you, please contact us. We want to make sure you have everything you need. contact us.
If you have questions related to your disability or reasonable adjustments, you can ask these questions during your interview. However, you should not feel compelled to do so.
If you want to learn more about telling people at work that you have a disability, you can read the IncludeAbility guide called: “Identifying as a person with disability in the workplace”. It explains your choices and rights in a way that’s easy to understand. IncludeAbility guide on Identifying as a person with disability in the workplace (PDF Format).
If you have questions about your disability or supports you may need at work (called reasonable adjustments), you can ask these during your interview. But you do not have to talk about them if you don’t want to. It’s your choice.
Once you know what adjustments or support you need, you can choose to tell us when you are offered an interview. You can also:
- Send us an email, or
- Ask for a phone call to talk about what you need.
This helps us make sure your interview goes well.
Accessibility – Interview & Recruitment Process
Caringa is happy to discuss and offer the following options should your application progress to interview:
• In-person interviews
• Online or virtual interviews
• Reasonable adjustments for your interview
If you have particular requirements regarding physical accessibility (for example, access to ramps or lifts if you are a wheelchair user), we are happy to confirm that the location is accessible before the meeting.
You can also bring a support person to your interview. A support person might be a friend, family member or support worker. They can come into the interview with you, or they can wait outside. Please just let the People & Culture Team know if you will be bringing a support person with you before the interview.
Employment Accessibility – For Staff
Meaningful employment can improve the financial, social and personal well being of all people with disability.
Caringa Australia can make any reasonable adjustments for successful applicants, this includes changes to work processes, practices or environments to ensure that employees with disability can perform their jobs free from unnecessary barriers.
Caringa Australia is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive workplace for all employees. Caringa Australia encourages everyone to bring their true self to work and aims to ensure that your accessibility needs are met in conversation and collaboration; just let us know what we can do to make this process more accessible for you.
We are committed to ensuring that we establish all employees’ communication needs and continue to work on developing accessible, inclusive written communications and ensuring access and inclusion during in-person and virtual meetings, events, and activities.
Reasonable Adjustments
Reasonable adjustments – sometimes called workplace adjustments or reasonable accommodation – are changes to work processes, practices or environments, that are made to ensure employees with disability can perform their job, free from barriers.
The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) is an Australian law that provides that employers must make reasonable adjustments, unless adjusting would incur a significant detriment to the organisation, such as financial hardship.
While the physical accessibility of a workplace is often the starting point when considering workplace accessibility, accessibility is a much broader concept. Caringa Australia is open to confidential, collaborative conversations with all employees – please send an email or arrange a call to discuss any adjustments for your role with the People & Culture Team.
Disability Rights, Discrimination and Complaints
Understand the Disability Discrimination Act, and how to take action against discrimination.
We will always take your feedback seriously and work with you to resolve any issues.
Accessibility Online
We are committed to providing a website that is accessible to as many people as possible. We work to make sure our website is accessible and useable by people of all abilities.
If you have any problems using the website or accessing the documents on it, please contact us.
You can follow or engage with the Caringa Community on a platform that suits you:
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Caringa.com.au | Accessibility Guidelines
We aim to make sure our website meets Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). These guidelines are the internationally recognised benchmark for building accessible websites.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities. Meeting these guidelines also makes web content more user friendly for people of all abilities in our community.
Caringa.com.au |Accessibility Compliance
We regularly review the accessibility and compliance of our website to make sure we maintain Level AA WCAG 2.0 compliance.
The accessibility of our website was last tested on 26 June 2019 by the Information Access Group.
Caringa.com.au |PDF and CSS
All pages on this website use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). If you have trouble viewing the content, you can turn off Style Sheets in your browser. You will then be able to read the content without formatting.
PDF documents are used on this website. PDF is a document format created by Adobe. To open, read and print PDF files, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free from the Adobe website.
Not all PDF documents will work with assistive technology, such as screen readers. If you need help converting PDF documents to an alternative format, please visit the Adobe website.
Contact Us
We are continually working to maintain the accessibility of this website. If you have any problems accessing our website, please get in touch.
To open, read and print PDF files, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free from the Adobe website.