Access to Work is a government funded programme providing practical and financial support to disabled people get or stay in work.
This document is about how to relate your personal experiences at school, home or in the workplace to a job or study placement that you are interested in.
Basically a list of some resources that might be helpful for young people on the autistic spectrum when looking for work. It includes information about supported internships.
This is a link to the current version of the West London Alliance guide to local supported internships. It is a long document listing all the currently available supported internships in West London – it includes a map of locations.
Supported Employment Services are usually commissioned by your local authority and their purpose is to support people with learning disabilities, mental health needs or autism find work suitable to their needs and ambitions. This document has links to services in some of our neighbouring boroughs.
Choice Support is the supported employment service commissioned by Richmond and Wandsworth to provide support to disabled young people looking for work.
Choice Support has been commissioned by Richmond and Wandsworth local authorities to support people with disabilities in these boroughs to find work.
This is a link to their easy read leaflets
This is a long document! Produced by the NAS so aimed at people on the autistic spectrum but I would expect much of it will be relevant to people with other disabilities. It is a workbook broken down into chapters like choosing a suitable role, interviews, managing anxiety so you can quickly dip into sections that might be of specific relevance.
This is a link to the Choice Support referral form – the organisation commissioned by Richmond and Wandsworth to provide a supported employment service.
You may hear the term ‘reasonable adjustments’ in relation to a workplace. The term has no absolute definition so what is reasonable in one setting may not be in another. This document provides links to a few organisations with information you might find helpful when thinking about adjustments in the workplace that will help you and what might be considered reasonable.