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How Work Choice can help you

Work Choice helps people with disabilities whose needs cannot be met through other work programmes, Access to Work or workplace adjustments. This might be because you need more specialised support to find employment or keep a job once you have started work.

If Work Choice is for you it will be tailored to meet your individual needs. It will focus on helping you achieve your full potential and moving towards being more independent.

How Work Choice helps employers

Work Choice will also ensure employers get the support they need to employ more disabled people.

The sections of Work Choice

The Work Choice programme will be delivered by providers funded by the government. There are three different sections called modules:

Module one: Work Entry Support
This will last for up to six months. You will receive help with personal skills and work-related advice to get you into supported or unsupported work.

Module two: In-Work Support
This will last for up to two years. You will receive help to start work and stay in your job.

Module three: Longer-term In-Work Support
You will receive help to progress in your job and where appropriate, help you move into unsupported work.

Who to talk to about Work Choice

If you are already on WORKSTEP, your WORKSTEP support adviser will talk to you about Work Choice and what the change means for you.

If you are already on Work Preparation or the Job Introduction Scheme, your Disability Employment Adviser (DEA) will talk to you about Work Choice.

If you do not have a DEA and want to know more about Work Choice, contact your local Jobcentre Plus Office to arrange an appointment.

Some other organisations who work with disabled people will also be able to talk to you about Work Choice. For further information, contact your local council.

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