Access to Work

It was about two weeks for me. I think it was less

Trainspotter said:

Like you I very much feel 'caged' and cannot achieve my potential at all.

This is exactly how I feel at work.

I often feel that I am a prisoner and I am imprisoned.

I also cannot achieve my potential at all.

Between two weeks and a month. Less than three weeks for me

Can anyone tell me how long it typically takes between putting in a "Access to Work" application and people coming out to the workplace to help, please?

California said:

The employer decided to ignore most of the recommendations

This is a great problem with any scheme like this. 

However much right may be on your side (and it is!) if your employer decides to ignore it, they are relying on you not wanting to challenge them.  You can challenge your employer in a chain of processes (grievance procedure, appeal, early concilliation,employment tribunal) but that can be very stressful and take a long time for all the processes. 

I might add that apparently no employer has actually yet managed to successfully challenge the adjustments recommended by access to work in an employment tribunal and win.

I feel the same as you, my employer is very much wanting to get rid of me, but at least I did get the adjustments recommended.  Like you I very much feel 'caged' and cannot achieve my potential at all.

I have had similar experiences to Trainspotter and recommend the scheme. Instead of a support worker, they recommended the Brain in Hand app for me.

I had a workplace assessment.

The employer decided to ignore most of the recommendations.

It is very difficult to for me focus there. So many distractions. I just gave up. I simply do the absolute minimum, stay in the background, keep the low profile.

It is impossible for me to achieve my full potential there.

I do not see a way out from this situation.

This is horrible!

I think it is well worth it.

I am in receipt of help from access to work and they provide a support worker for a couple of sessions a month and also suggested the adjustments I needed at work which was a lot more use than Occupational health.They also funded training for the staff on how to understand autism and the affects it has on me. It will also make it difficult for the employer to argue you are not covered by the equality act. The assessor was very understanding also