Employment Futures

Employment Futures exists to help remove barriers to meaningful employment for autistic adults and/or those with learning difficulties.

Our Employment Futures team offers personalised support to autistic and/or neurodivergent adults to access sustained employment.

Once you have found employment, we're still on hand to help support you. Our support includes everything from hints and tips, one-to-one mentoring and training for your employer. 

Our job coaches offer bespoke, personalised support for neurodivergent young people and adults, and those with a learning disability, who are currently in paid employment.

Highly skilled - with years of experience - the team know how to help you find the skills needed to remain in employment, to navigate change within the workplace and to feel confident as an employee.

Some of the support we offer includes:
  • Mentoring for one-to-one personalised support
  • Practical teaching to remove any language barriers encountered in work
  • Coaches skilled in Training and Systematic Instruction (TSI)
  • Working with clients at any stage in their employment
  • ‘Crisis-point’ support
  • Help within the workplace

Support is accessed via self-referral or as a request from employers.

Support in employment can often be provided free of charge via government funded Access to Work grant.

To find out more call the team on 0191 410 9974 or email [email protected].

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