Job coaching is designed to enable you to succeed in Employment either in a new role or work placement, or as a person returning to the workplace following a long-term sickness absence or change in your circumstances.
The ATW Solutions Job Coaching service has been specially created to work with employers and people with disabilities who need support when starting or returning to a paid job or work placement.
Having us provide you with one of our highly experienced job coaches strengthens your chances of retaining your job at the end of your placement or probation period, supports your success in building a good relationship between your employer and yourself, as well as further using our skills to support and benefit you in your career.
Once we have met with you and your employer or work placement provider to understand your needs and preferred method of learning, and drawn up a bespoke ‘in work’ assessment and coaching plan, we can support you in making an application to the DWP’s Access to Work scheme for funding which will allow us to provide you with a suitable job coach who will implement your bespoke coaching plan and work with you to carry out the recommendations we have made.
This funding will entitle you to a structured twenty-six-week programme of support, at the end of which, you will have learned and acquired the relevant skills and strategies which will allow you to carry out your job role successfully and to a high standard.
Our job coach works alongside you on a one-to-one basis, meaning that you are able to learn the job at your own pace. We are alerted to any Health and Safety issues and can build your knowledge and speed on the job without impacting on the productivity levels which your employer might be expecting from you early on in your role.
Our job coach also ensures that you understand each element of the job including:
We will also work with you to help you to implement your own strategies to ensure that you are able to manage and adhere to aspects of employment such as:
And will work with you on issues such as confidence building, and forming professional and cordial relationships with colleagues and clients.
All of this helps to ensure that at any time throughout your employment or at the end of your probation period you are fully aware of your employer’s expectations with regard to your work performance. This aspect is of great benefit to an employer also, as sharing information will make sure all parties know where their responsibilities lie, and will allow your employer to understand and make reasonable adjustments for your needs.
Contact us to discuss how we can be of support to you at the start of your new job, or your return to your existing role.
We will be happy to discuss your requirements with you and make recommendations to allow you to move forward in a way that best suits your circumstances.
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atwsolutions™ is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.
We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.
We have specifically focused on compliancy with WAI-ARIA.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfil this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilises various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilise an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilises an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimises its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behaviour for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email [email protected]
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioural changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimisation: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimisation: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviours using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key. Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to [email protected]