Agoriad provides this service for people with generic disabilities, learning disabilities and mental health needs throughout North Wales. Clients need to be referred by their JobCentre Disability Employment Advisor [DEA].

Work Preparation is an individually prepared, work-focused programme to enable people with disabilities to address the barriers associated with their disability and prepare to enter the workplace.

The programme includes:-

• Occupational decision making
• Job finding behaviours
• Job keeping behaviours

Clients referred under the General Learning Disabilities programme will be provided with extra support through:

• A Vocational Assessment
• A Personal Development Programme
• Work Placement

Clients referred under the Mental Health Difficulties programme will be provided with extra support through:

• A Personal Development Programme
• Work Placement
• Specialist Support

To be eligible to partake in the scheme, referred clients will;

• have a disability or combination of disabilities
• be part of a DEA caseload and be referred by their DEA
• have an identified need that hinders them from working or undertaking training immediately
• be fit enough to complete the programme
• be likely to be capable of work or training by the end of the 'Work Preparation' package

Agoriad is an approved provider for the Dept of Work and Pensions currently contracted by JobCentre Plus.