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WorkPath programmes

Jobcentre Plus have designed WorkPath programmes to help you get over the barriers you may face in the world of work.

WorkPaths offer practical support if you or the person you work for needs help, so that you can get the most from yourself and from your work.

There are three WorkPath programmes:

• Access to Work
• Work Preparation
• WORKSTEP

Access to Work

Access to Work can help you if your health or disability affects the way you do your job. It gives you, and the person you work for, advice and support with extra costs which may arise because of your needs.

Access to Work might pay towards:

• the equipment you need at work
• adapting premises to meet your needs
• a support worker

It can also pay towards:

• the cost of getting to work if you can’t use trains or buses
• a communicator at job interviews, if you need one

See 'Access to Work' to find out more.

• Access to Work (disabled people section)

Work Preparation

Work Preparation is tailored to suit your needs, but it usually involves doing short unpaid work experience with a local employer.

Work Preparation can help you get ready to work. Jobcentre Plus will work out what you need from the programme, and can offer you a range of support to help you find and stay in work.

There is no set way that Work Preparation works. Depending on your needs, it can last from a few hours to a number of weeks.

See 'Work preparation programme' to find out more.

• Work Preparation programme (disabled people section)

WORKSTEP

WORKSTEP can help if you feel that you need a lot of support before doing a job on your own. It is all about meeting your needs so that you can get and keep a job. You may know about WORKSTEP under its old name of ‘supported employment’.

See 'WORKSTEP' to find out more.

• WORKSTEP (disabled people section)

Find out more about Workpath programmes

For more information about WorkPath please contact Jobcentre Plus.

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