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employment support
'USEL is the largest sponsor of the Department for Employment and Learning's
‘Employment Support Programme’ and currently supports over 625
disabled people in paid employment throughout Northern Ireland. The aim
of the programme is to secure and maintain employment for severely disabled
people who have the ability to take up work but find it difficult to obtain
a job in competition with non-disabled people. The
programme integrates disabled people into ordinary work settings and the
employees receive the same terms and conditions as their non-disabled
colleagues. Ongoing regular work supports from USEL Placement Officers
are agreed at planned intervals. The
programme is intended to promote new and additional employment opportunities
for disabled people, but it may also be used to assist an employer retain
in employment an employee who has acquired a disability who can no longer
achieve a satisfactory level of performance as a direct consequence of
the impairment. |