-For the disabled professional
The right Support Worker can be radical in creating inclusion. Getting there isn’t always straightforward.
A well-matched, properly supported Support Worker or Job Aide can genuinely transform what you’re able to do professionally. Managing cognitive overhead. Providing the co-working presence that makes task initiation possible. Handling the administrative load that would otherwise exhaust your capacity before your actual work begins. When it works well, it works well.
When it doesn’t, the person who bears the cost is you. Poor matching, employers who don’t know how to direct the support, unclear expectations, no professional oversight of how the arrangement is going: these are the conditions that make support arrangements create friction rather than reduce it.
TWIP supports disabled professionals to access Support Worker and Job Aide provision through Access to Work, helps shape how that support works in practice, and works alongside you as your needs evolve. We understand what effective support looks like in senior and autonomous professional roles, where the expectations are high, the boundaries are complex, and generic support worker training doesn’t come close to preparing someone for the job.
“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!”
–Anna