Our Services
We provide research-led specialist in-work support for disabled academics, professionals, and entrepreneurs.
Disabled academics and professionals often find their career derailed by inaccessible workplaces and inflexible working practices, TWIP can help navigate and remove disabling barriers that hold disabled professionals back from reaching their potential. Inclusive and accessible workplace cultures need supported and effective disabled professionals and leaders, TWIP can help you lead by example.
We understand the day-to-day practicalities that need to be considered when making workplaces accessible, the majority of TWIP staff are disabled. We don’t just preach impractical goals, we work to build and maintain the kind of inclusive and supportive working environments that our staff and clients need, while operating a remote team of almost 50 staff across the whole of the UK.
Job Aides and Support Workers
Specialist assistants help remove workplace barriers, enabling equal participation in professional life.
£38 – £50 per hour + VAT depending on specialisms
TWIP Online Support Hub
Online community of practical support for disabled academics and professionals. Body-doubling hosted by a TWIP Coach for 12 hours a day, Monday – Friday, a range of drop-in small group executive function support sessions across the week, group coaching, and general advice and support on things like self-employment, disability benefits, career development, practical reasonable adjustments, etc. and access to a library of resources, information and toolkits.
£125+VAT per week for unlimited access (pro-rata for part-time workers)
Expert Training for Employers
Specialist training for raising awareness, addressing disabling attitudes and stigma, building confidence and practical skills in creating and maintaining accessible, inclusive workplaces, covering legal duties, practical adjustments, and best practices. Training can be tailored for senior leadership, HR teams, or line management / local teams.
£600 +VAT for up to 2-hour webinar training
£1,500 +VAT for up to 6hrs in-person training
Specialist Workplace Disability Coaching
TWIP coaches have specialist, research-led training in understanding the interaction between disability and work, and the practical realities of navigating the difficulties that arise, with a trauma-informed and empowering approach that is rooted in the realities of the employment relationship / world of self-employment.
£60 – £150 per hour +VAT depending on individual coach
UK’s First Disability Work Coach Qualification
Gain the UK’s first qualification in Disability Work Coaching, that brings together disabled lived experience, academic research & practitioner specialisms, and pragmatic HR expertise to build the skills and knowledge you need to be the most effective Coach for disabled people navigating disabling barriers at work.
Dr Helen Kara
I was diagnosed autistic at the age of 56 and the support I have received from TWIP since then has improved my life beyond measure. The workplace adjustment coaching is transformative, and still helpful today as adjusting to a later-life diagnosis is a very long process. And the support for my work has enabled me to come much closer to reaching my full potential than I ever thought would be possible. Being able to focus my talent, instead of endlessly struggling with tasks I find unusually difficult, makes work a joy instead of an ordeal. I am enormously grateful.
Dr Helen Kara is a leading independent researcher, author, teacher and speaker specialising in research methods.
Dr Nicky Priaulx
Coach (Master’s Degree Expert) & Innovation Fellow (Cardiff University)
I will forever be grateful to The Work Inclusion Project for their incredible help and support. Newly diagnosed with ADHD, I came to TWIP disillusioned, stressed, and totally burned out by a chaotic job. I felt clueless in terms of what to do next.
Gladly, the caring team at TWIP knew precisely what to do next. The team helped me understand that there were many forms of support and tools that could make a big difference, as well as financial support to help the employability of people with disabilities. In addition, their deep understanding of how neurodivergence impacts individuals in the workplace, has also helped me develop self-knowledge and confidence.
As a result of TWIP’s help, my life has dramatically changed, for the positive. I enjoy work, I feel in control of my life, and I have support that helps me be the very best I can be at work and life. Thank you TWIP.
Anna
Without TWIP, I doubt I would have had the executive function needed to even apply for Access to Work, let alone work out what could help me. Newly diagnosed as neurodivergent, I was only just coming to terms with what my disability hindered for me, and how that was different to other people. Even when my award came through, I struggled to manage that, having become physically ill through burnout and increasingly unable to manage my workload and duties. With TWIP’s help and with my amazing support worker from TWIP, I have been able to turn things around, and even start to contribute at a more senior level due to being able to work in ways that better fit my brain and my needs. I now get comments such as “You are extremely prompt and organised, as always” – unheard of for me, before TWIP’s help!
Contact Us
If you’re interested or would like more information then get in-touch with us at:
info@TheWorkInclusionProject.co.uk