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Hinckley newsletter: September - November 2014
25 October 2016
Making connections that matter
Becky Easterbrook, Site lead
Taurai Horton, Graduated intern
Introducing National Grid
Regulated energy company
UK
• National Gas and Electricity
transmission networks
• Gas Distribution – 10 million
customers
• Interconnectors, metering and LNG
terminal at Grain
US
• East coast – New York,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island
• End-to-end service
• 3.4 million customers for electricity
• 3.6 million customers for gas
Context: Why change is so
desperately needed - Employment rates
A rich source of hidden and untapped talent
Only 6% of students with learning difficulties and
disabilities (LDD) achieve paid employment
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
LDD
Disabled
Non-disabled
Employment Rates
EmployAbility – Our Mission
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EmployAbility – Our Mission
To provide Supported Internships
for young people with special
educational needs & disabilities
aged 17 – 25
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Partner with Special Schools
Provide Supported Internships
Job Coaches funded by
Government
“Employment ready” recruits
How it works – Our model
What do you need to make it happen?
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A room in which to
base the job coaches
and interns
Management lead at
each site
Job coach uniforms Executive or senior
sponsorNetwork of sponsors
providing placements
(including your
supply chain as
appropriate)
Communications
lead raising profile in
business
Laptops/PC for job
coaches (& interns if
appropriate)“Doers” – for example, graduates
or mentors who will lead activities
such as arranging ‘taster days’
Partnership with HR to agree open interview
process for vacancies etc.Cost - £500/intern
Benefits to the company
Inspiration – seeing young people with personal
challenges break through barriers inspires staff to see
business challenges in a different light
It needs no full time employee(s) managing it –
volunteers lead and support it. Their personal satisfaction
and development grows
It connects us to our local communities
We build positive partnerships within our business and
bring together people from different departments
Job coaches are the hub and make it easy for the
business to adopt
It makes our employees feel ‘confident’ about disability 8