-For employers
1:1 Support Worker provision is a significant cost. Too much of it fails due to lack of specialist support.
Support Worker arrangements break down at high rates: through poor matching, inadequate training, unclear employer management and the absence of any professional supervision structure. The public cost of failed arrangements is substantial. The human cost to the disabled employee is higher. And most organisations taking on AtW-funded Support Workers receive no guidance on how to manage this well.
What disability-related disadvantage does this address?
In senior, complex and autonomous roles, disabled employees face cognitive, administrative and communication demands that exceed what unassisted capacity can reliably sustain. Skilled Support Worker provision directly extends professional working capacity in ways no other reasonable adjustment can replicate. But it only delivers this when the arrangement is properly designed, managed and maintained.
What makes TWIP different?
The team of expert Support Workers we employ at TWIP work across academic, entrepreneur, and professional working environments in addition to specialist training and supervision, plus on-boarding coaching for new clients and guaranteed cover for sickness, annual leave, or caring / parental leave. Our team of Support Workers have full employment rights at no risk to employers, rather than the industry norm of using precarious ‘gig’ working under dubious ‘freelance’ arrangements.
Using TWIP Support Workers mean we handle all the finance, HR, and Access to Work administration involved in making use of Access to Work Support Worker awards. Many employers choose to ‘top up’ the low hourly rate awarded by AtW to ensure smooth and efficient expert support delivered wholly through TWIP.