DFN Project Search Looking To Recruit Programme Specialist For London And South East

DFN Project SEARCH is a transition to work programme for students with learning disabilities and autism with ambitions to get 15,000 young adults with learning difficulties and autism into full-time paid jobs over the next decade.

The pioneering programme is total workplace immersion at its very best, facilitating a seamless combination of classroom instruction, career exploration, and hands-on skills training.

Today DFN Project SEARCH has 69 internationally recognised programmes across the UK, Ireland and Iberia, and has supported over 1500 interns into work, 1300 of which meet Project SEARCH’s success criteria. This criteria means that the work is over 16 hours per week, is non seasonal, is paid the prevailing wage for the role and that the work is in an integrated setting.

On average 60 per cent of graduates obtain full-time paid employment meeting these criteria, which is well beyond national statistics of 5.9 per cent. Yet an additional 10 per cent find some type of paid employment, meaning the lives of 70 per cent of graduates are changed for the better.

Claire Cookson, CEO of DFN Project SEARCH said:

“The young people we aim to serve – and the challenges they face – are all unique. We are looking to build a team that reflects this diversity.

“Our commitment to inclusion across disability, race, gender, age, class, religion, identity, and experience forms the cornerstone of our work.”