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Training and Employment

What does this service offer:

Training for disabled people to learn their rights and how to advocate for themselves and others, and find work doing so.

What we offer: We provide two training courses intended to support disabled people into meaningful work:
  • Advocacy and Employment Training: We will teach you how to defend the rights of disabled people as well as improve your confidence and employability.
  • Hate Crime Training: We will teach you to support disabled survivors of hate crime and find work as a Hate Crime Advocate.

Our training courses also come with work experience placements and job coaching. The course is primarily for disabled people but we do allow a limited number of non-disabled people to attend as well.

How it helps:

The courses are designed to improve awareness of disability rights, get disabled people into work and increase the quality of disability rights workers in the UK. We have a very high success rate in getting disabled people into work.

Project Overview

Below is a brief overview regarding the course aims and some background information about our organisation. To apply you must be 18 years or over.

Due to the high volume of candidates that are interested in enrolling on the course we cannot guarantee that you will get a place on the next course, however we do run 3 courses a year and there is high chance of you enrolling onto the next course. In order to assess any additional support needs you may have and your eligibility, successful applicants will be required to undertake an informal interview.

Organisation’s Background

Choice in Hackney is a voluntary sector organisation, which provides Advocacy support to disabled people in London. Choice supports disabled people from all communities to obtain the services they need to live independently, with dignity and to make choices about their lifestyles.

Choice is an organisation run by disabled people, for disabled people and is committed to empowering disabled people. The organisation is committed to mostly employing disabled people as we believe that this makes for a more equal relationship between staff and Service users – through their shared experience as disabled people. Choice is committed to equal opportunities for all, and is opposed to all forms of discrimination on the grounds of disability, race, culture, gender, religion, or because someone is lesbian or gay.

Advocacy Training and Employment Project

This is a new and innovative project that aims to achieve the following:

  1. To provide a good working knowledge of the welfare/benefits system and the rights and entitlements of disabled people.
  2. To provide advocacy training that enable trainees to find meaningful employment in the field of advocacy or another related field.
  3. To provide suitable work placements in a variety of different organisations within the statutory, voluntary and private sectors.
  4. To increase confidence and awareness of the current job market, including how best to apply for a suitable job and interview simulation.
  5. To improve trainees overall research and independent learning skills.
  6. To build overall confidence and enhance future employment chances.

Application Form Guidelines

Choice in Hackney is a voluntary sector organisation, which provides Advocacy support to disabled people in London. Choice supports disabled people from all communities to obtain the services they need to live independently, with dignity and to make choices about their lifestyles. All information provided will be stored confidentially and not distributed to any third parties without prior consent.

  1. Personal Details:
    1. Please state your details in block capitals if completing by hand.

  2. Why are you interested in undertaking the Employment & Advocacy training course?:
    1. The reason you wish to attend will give us an idea as to your motivation and how we can best assist you.

  3. Please provide any details of any paid/unpaid work experience and any relevant life experiences:
    1. This is your opportunity to talk about any previous work experience you may have undertaken and the skills that you learnt as a result. It is fine if you have limited professional experience just write about the skills or abilities you use in everyday life.

  4. Disability:
    1. This is your opportunity to talk about any previous work experience you may have undertaken and the skills that you learnt as a result. It is fine if you have limited professional experience just write about the skills or abilities you use in everyday life.

  5. Education & Training:
    1. We would like to know of your most recent education/training course that you have completed just to serve as a guideline for what skills you already possess and where we can best help you to improve.

Recommend yourself or someone else for this service

You can fill in the form for yourself or anyone you want to be recommend for this service. The form takes approx 5 min to complete.

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