Your rights to a Disability employment advisor
Tags: Disability & Employment, Disability at work place
If you are disabled and need extra help when seeking employment then you have the right to speak with a disability employment adviser, the advisor can offer you support and help regardless of your position.
The advisor is there to give you advice on gaining new skills or re training, whether you have been out of work for a long time or just a short while.
What can the disability advisor do?
* If you are finding it difficult to get work because of your disability then an advisor can help you find one.
* The advisor will know suitable jobs and those employers that have a good policy for employing disabled people.
* The advisor will be able to give you advice about any specialised support you may be entitled to receive.
* If you have recently become disabled or your disability has gradually got worse then they will be able to provide specific advice.
* Make the use of occupational therapists specialising in working with disabled people.
You will be able to work closely with the disability employment advisor to help you find work or to enable you to keep your existing job. If you think you might be about to lose the job you already have then an advisor can work with both you and your employer and give advice on practical ways that would help you keep your job.
What services are provided by the advisor?
A disability employment advisor can offer you:
* A complete assessment to identify what work you would be most suited to or the kind of training you might need for finding work.
* Refer you to individually tailored programmes that are specially designed for helping disabled people find work.
* Give you access to programs such as Access to work, Workstep and other job introduction schemes.
* Access to occupational psychologist for a more detailed assessment for the kind of work that is more suitable to your particular needs.
* Information on employers that are known to give positions to disabled people.
Employment assessments
An assessment will bring out your particular skills and strengths to help decide what work you are most suited for applying for, at the end of the assessment you will have a clear plan set out towards steps you can take to achieving your goals.
During the assessment you will be asked to talk about your skills and abilities, your strongest points and talk about any previous work you may have done and also set reasonable goals for the work you are capable of doing now.
You will be asked to carry out practical tasks and some written work which various types of work may involve. After the assessment you and the advisor will agree on a plan of action for which should help you achieve obtaining a position of employment.
Filed under: Disability & Employment
I’ve been seeking 20hrs/day for some help. I have been FORCED to get a disability designation, which prevents me from working outside of home. I NEED a viable, living wage HOME job or business. Your blog says that you have a disability advisor. Where do you find such a thing? Where are the jobs that the government is advertising? Why do these government websites NOT have a way to find a PERSON?
I’m ABLE to do just about everything that everyone else does. I was not fired because of something I did or did not do. I was fired, because my employer could. I am UNABLE to do telephone work. Anything else would be good. I have 38 years of education and experience in the Engineering Tech field.
Please do not give me more worthless links. I NEED a PERSON who is knowledgeable about viable, living wage, HOME job or businesses. Please do not give me the VR. Please do not send me to disabled job websites, because they discriminate against people with disabilities. NO SCAMS PLEASE.
THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE NEED.
I’ve tried and tried without any results. My efforts for Federal employment seem insurmountable. I don’t know where to
turn.
Though in possession of a “Ticket to Work” it seems fruitless.
This is very up-to-date info. I’ll share it on Facebook.
I was fired from a job as a teacher with children with disabilities BECAUSE of my disability! I do not believe there is a place that discrimination does not exist. I had avoided filing for disibility for 19 years and have now decided with this firing that it is necessary because of discrimination. After 18 months employed with a federal program I missed my FIRST 4 (they were consecutive) days because of my disability (specialists and ER visit) and was fired within the week. I am a single mother, and have lost 3 jobs in 6 years!! I just cannot live like this anymore. Especially in this economy and with jobs getting harder to find. I was just out of options…
Now, my plan is to try something different, I see that this is going to be even more difficult than keeping a job with a disability! I see people saying “I will publish” but I still don’t see anything. Is it just me?? Wow, the mountain just gets steeper and steeper doesn’t it?
It’s evident that the government is still propping up these fraudulent websites that ONLY HARM THE DISABLED and don’t even have the decency of responding to the pleas of help. Keep it up, government workers, your sick lying articles are doing the job of HARMING THE DISABLED!!!!!!! UGLY, PATHETIC, SICK, MINDLESS, LYING, DECEPTIVE, MURDEROUS, FRAUDULENT GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!