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Finding employment through ill health

Posted By LP1993

"Finding employment through ill health"

About: South Yorkshire Housing Association Limited / Working Win

(as a service user),

In the past I'd broken my back and this lead to severe pain, sometimes I couldn't even get up. I started going to Physio for support with this and they asked if I would like to try to find employment and put me on to the working win service with SYHA. 

Due to the back pain I felt quite down as I wanted a job and couldn't seem to get one. It were disheartening as I kept applying but got no where. 

At the moment through the working win service I have an interview for my desired job as a bench joiner, I have found it difficult to find this specific work given my medical condition and child care responsibilities but my work and enterprise coach called the employer and managed to negotiate different working hours and got me an interview which I attend tomorrow.

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Response from Aletheia Gentle, Programme Coordinator, South Yorkshire Housing Association 5 years ago
Aletheia Gentle
Programme Coordinator,
South Yorkshire Housing Association

Submitted on 13/02/2019 at 09:23
Published on Care Opinion at 12:27

Thank you very much for letting us know that your experience of our Working Win service has been a positive one. We're delighted that your coach has been able to negotiate working hours that would suit you better and hope very much that your interview went well. We wish you all the best for the future and really appreciate your feedback.

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