{"id":21432,"date":"2024-03-20T23:37:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=21432"},"modified":"2024-03-20T23:37:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:37:40","slug":"transport-for-wales-all-deaf-team-win-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=21432","title":{"rendered":"Transport for Wales all deaf team win national award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transport for Wales\u2019<\/a> App Support team \u2013 all of whom are either deaf or hard of hearing \u2013 have won the Best Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Wales (CIPD)<\/a> awards.<\/p>\n

The four-strong tream supports the finance department, helping to raise purchasing orders, receipt invoices, collect project information, test systems for upgrades and raise sales invoices.<\/p>\n

The team communicate with each other using sign language, Microsoft Teams and email. TfW has made their office space more accessible for them and provided vibrating pagers to help with health and safety precautions.<\/p>\n

Last year the team were successful and won the Corporate Responsibility Award at the Wales Finance Awards and they have now gone on to win at this year\u2019s CIPD awards.<\/p>\n

Karlijn Asveld, Senior Finance Business Partner said:\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re really proud that we\u2019ve been able to create a whole team at TfW that is made up of people who are deaf or have hearing difficulties.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve ensured that our office set up allows them to sit together so they are able to support and communicate with each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis week is Sign Language Week across the UK and it\u2019s important to celebrate the success of the team. It\u2019s great that we\u2019ve won this national CIPD award, it brings recognition to the team and we hope to encourage more employers to look at more inclusive ways of employment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rhys Hiscock, a team member with hearing difficulties added:\u00a0\u201cI have been working for Transport for Wales for two years and I\u2019m extremely proud to be part of the Application Support Team.\u00a0 It has provided me and others with a safe space to grow, learn vocational skills and fulfil our potential.<\/p>\n

\u201cTfW has helped build my confidence and provided me with a working environment where I am a dependable and functional team member.\u00a0 With the support of our manager, we all look forward to continuing to grow as a team and learn new skills.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Helen Taylor, manages the App Support Team and said:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve managed the team for over a year, they still inspire me every day and have taught me about different types of communication and are helping me learn British Sign Language.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe communicate mainly by teams and email and in the office we use interpreters, sign language and lip read with each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud with their recent award especially as we celebrate Sign Language Week across the UK this week.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Transport for Wales\u2019 App Support team \u2013 all of whom are either deaf or hard of hearing \u2013 have won the Best Equality, Diversity and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[7,11],"class_list":["post-21432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","tag-transport","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}