Breakaway Supported Employment Service
New Deal for Disabled Persons

Who we can help
We help people with an incapacity, illness or disability to return to work. We offer support to people who are ready and able to work an initial minimum of eight hours per week, gradually increasing their hours to over 16 hours per week (according to the Permitted Work Rules). We also support people to find and sustain work of more than16 hours per week.

Our Application Process
As New Deal Job brokers we have the following criteria, and can only work with people claiming one or more of the benefits listed below:

• Incapacity Benefit – long and short term – high and low rate AND/OR Incapacity Benefit only.
• Income Support with a disability premium
• Income Support pending an appeal against Incapacity Benefit disallowance
• Housing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit with a Disability Premium – providing you do less than 16 hours paid work per week and do not receive Jobseekers Allowance
• War Pension with an Unemployment Supplement
• Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit with an Unemployment Supplement
• Disability Living Allowance – any level of care or mobility
• Severe Disablement Allowance
  

PLEASE NOTE:
We cannot work with anyone receiving Job Seekers Allowance, even if they get Disability Living Allowance.

We work with each person as an individual and like to let the client set the pace, as well as deciding how much involvement and assistance he or she would like from us at any time.

How can we help?

• Advice on benefit calculations. We can also explain the financial implications of work once all the figures have been researched, helping to provide a financial forecast of the effects of paid work on any benefits you receive.
• Advice about training and matching your skills and abilities to what employers require.
• Vocational profiling – helping to decide which business sector and work environment is most suitable for you. Identifying transferable skills you have obtained through life experience.
• Getting to know you and producing an accurate curriculum vitae and letter of introduction.
• Advice on jobs, job-hunting, applying for jobs, doing mail shots.
• Meeting employers, offering advice on interviews, attending interviews.
• Doing a job analysis to address any queries raised by the client or the employer and making sure that the employer follows recommended health and safety standards.
• Offering on-going support in the job through regular contact either by telephone or by arranging set meeting times to review the original job description and any changes which may have occurred.
• Reviewing benefits if the client decides to change their working hours in any way.