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Hi everyone,

I havent posted for a while but I spoke to a workforce inclusion officer in my relatively new job and they suggested that I apply to Access to Work to consider getting funding support for a work coach. I wondered if anyone else has accessed Access to Work and how you have used it, whether it has been beneficial etc.

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  • Hello 
    I’m truly shocked at the hideous experience that @Blue has had. My experience is probably the polar opposite. I am doing my workplace coping strategies coaching sessions currently and it’s going really well. I found the application process befuddling and it took me three attempts at reading through the ‘do you qualify’ gumf  and in the end I just submitted it after my Occ Health dept said I would qualify. I too am NHS, have been since 1998 and was late diagnosed (aged 48) so struggled to get my head round how you could still qualify after having been in employment for so long.

    I got an award to fund 10 hours of coping at work strategies for me and a disability awareness course focussed on ASD for my boss (who is sooooo supportive btw).

    I’ve learned stuff I have not come across before and had the space to talk through what causes me issues at work and how I could work through them (Mis-hearing things, when my brain stops processing because i’m receiving too much verbal communication, needing to write everything down, being anxious about appearing stoopid, needing time out to process information, needing to organise and plan work in a way that is meaningful to me, etc, etc)

    I would definitely recommend it and have posted the same so many times since I started my coaching. Just Google Access To Work Gov apply, or something similar, and go for it. 

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  • Hello 
    I’m truly shocked at the hideous experience that @Blue has had. My experience is probably the polar opposite. I am doing my workplace coping strategies coaching sessions currently and it’s going really well. I found the application process befuddling and it took me three attempts at reading through the ‘do you qualify’ gumf  and in the end I just submitted it after my Occ Health dept said I would qualify. I too am NHS, have been since 1998 and was late diagnosed (aged 48) so struggled to get my head round how you could still qualify after having been in employment for so long.

    I got an award to fund 10 hours of coping at work strategies for me and a disability awareness course focussed on ASD for my boss (who is sooooo supportive btw).

    I’ve learned stuff I have not come across before and had the space to talk through what causes me issues at work and how I could work through them (Mis-hearing things, when my brain stops processing because i’m receiving too much verbal communication, needing to write everything down, being anxious about appearing stoopid, needing time out to process information, needing to organise and plan work in a way that is meaningful to me, etc, etc)

    I would definitely recommend it and have posted the same so many times since I started my coaching. Just Google Access To Work Gov apply, or something similar, and go for it. 

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