Workplace Accessibility Specialist - Ipswich, United Kingdom - AXA UK

AXA UK
AXA UK
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Ipswich, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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About the role:


Working in the AXA UK HR team, the Workplace Accessibility Specialist will create and be accountable for the HR arm of AXA's accessibility related policies and processes.

Using your expertise, you'll take the lead in ensuring AXA is putting accessibility for its employees at the forefront of its priorities.

You'll play a critical role in the centre of excellence empowering business areas and employees to achieve the accessibility and reasonable adjustments a truly inclusive employer wants to provide.


At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers.

You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home at your local office.


What you'll be doing:


  • Enhance AXA's Inclusivity by improving our identification and implementation of accessibility and reasonable adjustments requirements within the workplace.
  • Create and own the processes for understanding what adjustments are needed within our employee population, supporting the business in assessing whether they are 'reasonable' and improving speed and efficiency of implementation.
  • Undertake holistic workplace assessments and provide recommendations to the business (training will be provided, if required)
  • Key relationship holder with all internal and external accessibility related stakeholders and suppliers including
  • Occupational Health, Access to Work, Business Disability Forum, relevant charity networks etc.
  • Relationship Manager for all internal stakeholders in the accessibility space including Employee Relations, Diversity and Inclusion Team, IT, Health & Safety.
  • Highly collaborative working relationship with the Accessibility Concierge in Resourcing to ensure the smooth transition of employees with or requiring adjustments throughout their employee journey including redeployment opportunities.
  • Increase awareness of AXA's commitment and responsibility to Accessibility.
  • Offer expert advice and guidance on championing Disability, Accessibility and Reasonable adjustments in the workplace.
  • Relationship owner of the everyday 'business as usual' provisions of the Occupational Health Service, linking in with the Culture & Engagement Team to help drive any strategic changes in terms of Occupational Health provision.
  • Work closely with Employee Relations and be the escalation point and manage a caseload, for individual cases / scenarios where adjustments are required and drive the processes/ actions through to implementation.

About you:


  • Expert in managing and championing disability, accessibility, and adjustments in the workplace.
  • Proven track record in devising workplace accessibility processes from inception, embedding new ways of working and overcoming challenges or resistance to progression.
  • Experience in navigating accessibility support networks to allow speedy adjustments and improvements to be made.
  • Proven experience in improving accessibility within a large organisation and particularly within the digital workplace.
  • Tenacious personality, driven to get the job done, finding creative ways of achieving this and knocking down barriers.
  • Strong Influencing skills across internal and external stakeholder networks.


As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorized to work in the United Kingdom.


What we offer:


At AXA UK, we're appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that.


You can expect to receive:

  • Competitive annual salary
  • Annual company & performancebased bonus
  • Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
  • Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
  • 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
  • Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
  • AXA employee discounts
  • Gym benefits
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About AXA:


With a presence in over 60 countries, and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers, AXA is big.

But never too big to care for every single person who works here. So when you join us, we promise to put our collective might behind you and your career.


You'll work in an open and supportive environment where you'll be developed, challenged and encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things - nationally and internationally.

You'll learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. And you'll enjoy real responsibility, really early on.

Every large company today talks about supporting diversity and inclusion. But at AXA UK, these values form an integral part of everything we do.

For us, it's about bringing together the best talent, helping people to realise their full potential by being 100% themselves at work and delivering outstanding service to everyone - regardless of difference.

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