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For any of the schemes/programmes listed below you will need to speak to a Disability Employment Adviser through your local Job Centre or Job Centre Plus.
Find your local Job Centre by clicking on the following link: Find Local Job Centre
The Job Introduction Scheme (JIS) is available through Jobcentre Plus. It can help you if you're looking for work or about to start a job and have a disability that may affect the kind of work you will do.
JIS pays a weekly grant to your employer for the first six weeks that you are employed to help towards your wages or other employment costs like extra training.
Click here for more about the Job Introduction Scheme
Access to Work (ATW) is a Government funding scheme run by Job Centre Plus. As well as giving advice and information to disabled people and employers, Jobcentre Plus pays a grant, through ATW, towards any extra employment costs that result from a person’s impairment.
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New Deal for Disabled People is a programme through the Job Centre Plus and gives advice and practical support, which helps people move from disability and health-related benefits into paid employment.
Many people who have joined this voluntary scheme have benefited from the support to develop new skills and improved confidence - plus the financial benefits of being in work.
Click here for more about the New Deal for Disabled People programme
WORKSTEP is an employment programme through the Job Centre Plus that provides job support to over 26,000 disabled people who face more complex barriers to getting and keeping a job, but who can work effectively with the right support.
It enables eligible disabled people to realise their full potential to work within a commercial environment, giving them, whenever possible, an opportunity to progress into open employment. The programme also offers practical assistance to employers.
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It’s an individually tailored programme designed to help people with health conditions or a disability return to work following a long period of sickness or unemployment. It can also help people who are at risk of losing their job because of their disability by helping them to overcome difficulties that are affecting their work.
Click here for more about the Work Preparation Programme
Residential training for disabled adults is a programme that helps long-term unemployed disabled people secure and maintain jobs or self-employment.
The programme is provided when there are no suitable alternative programmes available locally.
The programmes are tailored to meet an individual's training needs through a combination of guidance, work experience, vocational (work-based) training and approved qualifications.
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You cannot usually work while you are getting Incapacity Benefit because of illness or disability.
However, you may be able to do some types of work - within limits. This is called ‘Permitted Work’ and it allows you to test your own capacity for doing some work and perhaps gain new skills. You should check with your local Jobcentre or Jobcentre Plus office before you start.
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