Tell us about your role as a Disability Analyst.
Our goal is to provide equal employment opportunity for folks with disabilities. Diving deeper, we engage in the interactive process under the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) with the intent to find a reasonable accommodation in the workplace. It involves a lot of collaboration between the employee, manager, the health care providers and sometimes Labor and Employee Relations (LER) and the union representatives.
What is your favorite part of the job?
Rose: My favorite part of the job is when we’re able to identify an accommodation that’s effective for the employee and the department.
Jonas: My favorite part of the job is helping an employee be successful
at work: enabling them to meet performance expectations and the critical thinking aspect that goes into identifying a reasonable accommodation.
What do you wish your colleagues knew about your work?
Jonas: I wish that the entire UCSF organization was more aware that our services exist. What we do is very specialized and sometimes when folks think of HR, they usually think of the major HR functions such as recruiting, learning and development, etc. We get overlooked. The disability community is huge, and it intersects all groups of people. It is important that they have access to resources such as ours.
Rose: For managers, I would encourage them to stay open minded about modified work, and focus on what employees with disabilities can do instead of what they can’t do.
If workplace accommodations are needed, connect with Rose or Jonas, or reach out to DMS for assistance at (415) 476-2621.
