WORKSTEP
Our WORKSTEP team
| What is WORKSTEP? | [-] |
If you have a disability or health condition that makes it difficult for you to find or keep employment, then MTIB and WORKSTEP may be able to help you.
The aim of WORKSTEP is to provide support for people with disabilities who have more complex barriers to finding and keeping work but who, with the right support, are able to make a valuable contribution in their job and where appropriate develop and progress to mainstream employment.
WORKSTEP has been designed to:
- Provide the support you and your employer need to fit your requirements
- Help you develop and improve your skills - and your job prospects.
- Provide a stepping stone into mainstream employment - if that's right for you
- Develop and improve job skills and employability, including the ability to work with others and sustain a job
- Encourage personal development and promote independence for disabled people
- Enable individuals to work effectively in a job, focusing on their and their employer's requirements in a planned and structured way.
- Enable you to work effectively in a job, focusing on your needs as well as your employer's.
MTIB and WORKSTEP provides a wide range of supported work opportunities that meet the differing needs of people with disabilities and reflect the demand of the local labour market.
MTIB and WORKSTEP offer a range of support to both employers and employees and practical help includes, for example, job trainer or job coaching, mentoring from colleagues, advice and awareness help to the employer and employees
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MTIB and WORKSTEP provides a wide range of supported work opportunities that meet the differing needs of people with disabilities and reflect the demand of the local labour market.
MTIB and WORKSTEP offer a range of support to both employers and employees and practical help includes, for example, mentoring from colleagues, advice and guidance for the employer and employees, training and development options etc.
| What happens once I'm employed? | [-] |
Our support does not stop once you get a job — it just begins. Our trained staff will support you during the important initial period of work and beyond.
- We meet the employer to discuss your employment with them and make sure that you are treated equally as one of the workforce:
- We make sure that you have a contract of employment, and receive a fair wage
- We make sure that you get a proper induction to the job and that any training needs are met
- We make sure you receive adequate Health and Safety instructions
- We make sure you are happy with all the arrangements.
MTIB regularly monitor the progress of WORKSTEP participants and carry out at least two visits a year. We ask you and your employer for an update on what you have done in work and whether anything else needs doing to help you.
