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10 years later: disabled student to disabled employee
Tomorrow, I’ll have been writing this blog for 10 years… My blog, life as a cerebral palsy student, was set up during my GCSE’s. As the name suggests, I wrote about my experiences as a disabled student. Yet I could not have predicted how much my blog would influence my employment opportunities 10 years later.
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The pressure of being a disabled employee
Being a disabled employee can have its challenges. I'm not for one second saying that disabled people shouldn't work, far from it! However, to be under the impression that it's easy would be misleading. The level of support from employers can vary. Yet the pressures I'd like to highlight are not related to this. I'm wanting to show what it can be like for a disabled employee, how public attitudes and having a condition can affect employment.
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A survival guide for homeworking
Homeworking has become the new norm during the covid-19 outbreak. With this in mind, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the things I have learnt from being a home worker. Here are seven easy things you can do to make working from home just as productive and easier.
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Here’s why we should employ disabled people
Finding employment can be a challenge for most people, and if you have a disability this can be made even more difficult! Scope's campaign #WorkWithMe, which is in collaboration with Virgin Media, has been about highlighting that disabled people are twice as likely to be unemployed when compared to non-disabled people and that this simply cannot carry on! They encourage employers to make a pledge and demonstrate their commitment to thinking and acting differently about disability in the workplace...
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Working as an intern at Scope
You finish university for summer, all assignments are handed in and you feel free. You may have holiday’s planned, a list of exciting adventures and can’t wait to catch up with friends you haven’t seen in a long time. I very fortunately can say I did all of that over summer, I also embarked on a 3- month internship at Scope. Finding employment when you have a disability can be incredibly difficult. Aside from employers being less inclined to hire us in the first place, we need to find something that we would be able to do. I know there are jobs out there that I would be very capable…
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Work placement with RNIB
Part of my university degree is to complete a six-week placement at the end of your second year. With my degree being in psychology and child development, it will come as no surprise that most of the cohort end up in schools or nurseries. However, after thinki§ng about the career I would like after university, and looking at the experience I already had, I felt something a little different would be more appropriate. This is where RNIB came in. The charity support blind and partially sighted people in many ways and I had worked on campaigns with them in the past. I felt doing a placement with RNIB would allow…
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Employment is round the corner
Employment is closer than I think, and that in itself is terrifying! The uncertainties about employment are what make it seem daunting, when in actual fact I’m also excited for what the next chapter has in store. However, before I even starting thinking about a job, I still need to find a suitable work placement for the end of this academic year! At the grand age of 19, I’ve never had a job. I’ve babysat for some friends and volunteered in a charity shop for a few months, but nothing more then that. This doesn’t mean I don’t want a job, or that I would be incapable of getting any…
