Disability Friendly Employers
Some companies actively encourage applications from disabled students. Companies signed up to the 'Two Tick' scheme guarantee disabled students an interview if they meet the job criteria. Employers display the 2 ticks logo/disability symbol on their vacancy information. The scheme is run by the Job Centres.
Contact your Disability Employment Adviser through your local job centre for a list of companies signed up to the Two Ticks scheme.
www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/cms.asp?Page=/Home/Customers/HelpForDisabledPeople/DisabilitySymbol
The Employers Forum on Disability also provides a list of companies working to improve the work prospects for disabled people, available online.
www.employers-forum.co.uk
Work Experience Schemes For Disabled Students
Many schemes are specifically designed to help disabled students find work experience:
Civil Service Summer Placement Scheme
www.diversity.faststream.gov.uk/index.asp?txtNavID=133
6 – 8 week placements in the civil service
BBC Extend Programme
www.bbc.co.uk/jobs/extend
Provides work placements for talented disabled people. This programme is currently under review and information regarding a new format will be available on the website as soon as it becomes available.
Bar Council
www.barcouncil.org.uk
Offers a ‘matching’ process to link students and graduates with
barristers with a similar disability.
Shaw Trust
www.shaw-trust.org.uk
Offers vocational training, work tasters and work preparation for disabled
people.
Employment Opportunities
www.opportunities.org.uk
Matching scheme that provides additional help and support with finding a
range of vacancies.
Blind in Business
www.blindinbusiness.org.uk
Job covenant scheme which helps blind students and graduates find work placements.
Some general sources of vacancies for disabled people (some of which may be suitable for work experience) are:
Disability Now
www.disabilitynow.org.uk
Newspaper covering disability issues, including some job vacancies.
Jobability
www.jobability.com
Website of job vacancies for disabled people
Support in Scotland and Ireland
Capability Scotland
www.capability-scotland.org.uk
Range of information, advice and support for disabled people in Scotland.
AHEAD (Association for Higher Education Access & Disability)
www.ahead.ie
Information and advice for higher education students in Ireland.
Help for Specific Disabilities
Arthritis
Arthritis Care
www.arthritiscare.org.uk
Autism
National Autism Society (Autism & Aspergers
Syndrome)
www.nas.org.uk
Blind/Visual impairments
Royal National Institute for
the Blind
www.rnib.org.uk
Association of Blind and Partially
Sighted Teachers and Students
www.abapstas.org.uk
Brittle Bones
Brittle Bone Society
www.brittlebone.org
Cerebal Palsy
Scope
www.scope.org.uk
Colitis & Crohn’s Disease
National Association
Colitis & Crohn’s Disease
www.nacc.org.uk
Deaf
Deafplus
www.deafplus.org
Royal Association of Deaf People
www.royaldeaf.org.uk
Working Without Hearing
www.workingwithouthearing.com
Diabetes
Diabetes UK
www.diabetes.org.uk
Disfigurement
Changing Faces
www.changingfaces.co.uk
Dyslexia
British Dyslexia Association
www.bda-dyslexia.org.uk
Dyslexia Institute
www.dyslexia-inst.org.uk
Epilepsy
National Society for Epilepsy
www.epilepsynse.org.uk
Learning Difficulties
MENCAP
www.mencap.org.uk
ME
ME Association
www.meassociation.org.uk
Mental Health
Mind
www.mind.org.uk
Mental illness, including schizophrenia
Rethink
www.rethink.org
Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis Society
www.mssociety.org.uk
Multiple Sclerosis International Federation
www.msif.org
Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
Association for Spina Bifida
and Hydrocephalus
www.asbah.org
