Bath Spa Careers

Prospective Students:

Features:

Recent Graduates
Find out what recent Bath Spa graduates are doing now

Diversity and Equality Issues

Disclosure
Disabilities
Ethnicity
Mature Students
Gender and Sexual Orientation

Disclosure

Some careers, specifically those working with children, are likely to require a police check through the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB). Use the links listed below to get more detailed information about applying for a CRB check and who deals with the issues surrounding disclosure:

Useful websites:

Applying for a Disclosure - Criminal Records Bureau

APEX TRUST advice on how and when to declare a conviction.

NACRO - campaigns on behalf of ex-offenders. Provides advice and information on how and when to declare a criminal record to an employer.

Prospects - provide advice for people with previous convictions.

Westminster University - offer advice for students with criminal convictions. Focusses on the legal position regarding employment and advice about confidence-building and dealing with the barriers.

Disabilities

BSU Careers Service - accessibility:

Please note that we are located on the first floor (old wing) of the Library and accessed only by a flight of stairs. However, for those that would like an interview with Careers staff or would like to look at the range of (specific) information and are unable to access us, we can offer the use of a room on the ground floor of the Library. Please contact us to arrange this.

Pick up copies of these guides from Careers Information Room (LY106):

Target Jobs Diversity: Essential employment advice about disability, age, race, gender and sexuality.
RealWorld magazine - Diversity
The Arberry Profile: inspiring ideas for students and graduates with disabilities
Diversity in Law (The Independent publication)
Equality Britain: Directory of opportunity 2009

Click on the link for BSU Disabilities Support web pages.

Other useful websites:

Disclosing Disability

Professional Education and Disability Support have produced a Best Pracice Guide: disabled social work students and placements

Blind in Business - charity to assist visually impaired graduates into employment.

Civil Service Fast-Stream - summer placement scheme for students with disabilities.

Direct Gov - information for disabled people in areas such as employment, health and education.

Disability Rights Commission

Disability Toolkits
A new website developed by a division of The University of Manchester to help you obtain and make the most of the opportunities available, including information on placements, work experience and vounteering.

Disabled Workers Cooperative
A registered charity that helps disabled people to help themselves. With aims of raising the independence of disabled people who wish to take an active role in the economy and achieve a greater sense of self-worth and also to raise aawareness of the contribution that disabled people can make to society. Website includes an e-jobs portal; an online database of skills, services and products disabled people have to offer + employer details; a directory of organisations, products and services.

Diversity Now

The Diversity Group

Target Jobs: Diversity

Action on Access - widening participation in HE; improving provision for disabled students

Leonard Cheshire Disability - job vacancies for people with disabilities

Prospects - disabilities advice for students and graduates

Shaw Trust - Ability at Work - Student and graduate programmes

Skill - National Bureau for Students with Disabilities

Disabiltiy Jobsite jobs, careers information and events, links

Disabled Workers Database Online database of skills, products and services offered by local disabled workers.

Ethnicity

Pick up copies of these guides from Careers, or reference copies are available in the Careers Information Room (LY106):

Target Jobs: Diversity
RealWorld magazine: Embracing Diversity
Diversity in Law
Equality Britain: Directory of Opportunity

General websites:

Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)

The Diversity Group

Diversity Now

Target Jobs: Diversity

Equal Opportunities Commission

One Parent Families

Prospects - advice about handling discrimination

Specific websites:

Civil Service Summer Vacation Training Programme - for ethnic minority students

Commission for Racial Equality (CRE)

Equality Britain - for the latest job vacancies, courses and articles from some of the leading orgainsiations across the UK.

Inland Revenue Summer Training Experience - for ethnic minority students

Kaleidoscopic - careers advice and jobs for ethnic minority students

Mature Students

European legislation against age discrimination came into effect in October 2006.

The AGCAS booklet Mature Students: The Way Forward, available from prospects website: www.prospects.ac.uk
RealWorld magazine: Embracing Diversity
Target Jobs: Diversity
Equality Britain: Directory of Opportunity