Employment and training

If you would like some advice or support with employment, work experience or training opportunities, here are some Suffolk based organisations who may be able to help.

  • The National Autistic Society (NAS) has a page about support to get work experience and find a job:  Seeking work
  • There is also information for employers, using their dedicated resource hub: Employment 
  • Ambitious about Autism has lots of information about work experience and employment too.
  • They have also created a toolkit for young people with lots of information for interviewers, and interviewees. There is also information on their 'Employ Autism' programme, that works with employers to help them hire talented autistic candidates.

Government Support

If you have a disability or health condition which makes it hard for you to do your job, you may be able to get support from the government through their Access to Work scheme.  Support may include a grant to help pay for practical support with your work, support with managing your mental health at work and /or money to pay for communication support at job interviews.

Learn more about the Access to Work scheme here.

 

Employment - people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people

Work Ready provide resources to support people with a learning disability and/or autistic people to find interesting and rewarding employment:

Employment and mental health

Mind Suffolk provide a free service called 'Suffolk Work Well' (SWW). This is a complete support programme, for people aged 18 and over, which aims to support people with mental health challenges to get ready for work, gain and retain employment or access education services: 

 

Learning and Developing skills

Inspiring Aspirations support people living in East Anglia who may face disability or disadvantage to develop or learn new skills for life and employment. They run several funded projects including:

  • Moving into adulthood; tailored packages of support to learn new skills and working toward achieving your goals 
  • School services: packages for educational settings and schools delivering emotional resilience, behaviour management strategies and mental health support to young people 

Learn more here.