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Employment Advocacy Service

Specialist advice and support for businesses employing people with disabilities.

Who it is for

Open to employers in Northern Ireland.

For individuals:

  • People using this service must have a disability.
  • The employment issue or query must be directly linked to the disability.
  • The employment issue/query must centre on getting into, remaining in, or progressing in work.
  • Employees must live and work in Northern Ireland.

Disability Action will prioritise people with significant multiple disabilities and those who do not have other sources of support.

Support you can get

The Employment Advocacy Service can provide information and support to disabled employees and their employers in the following ways:

  • telephone/ SMS messages
  • email / post
  • face-to-face contact with employees and their employers

The service can help employers by:

  • awareness raising activities
  • helping them target disabled people as employees
  • developing actions to encourage recruitment and retention of employees with disabilities

Support organisers

  • Disability Action

Email

employmentadvocacy@disabilityaction.org

Phone:

028 9029 7880

Next Steps

on the Disability Action website
Published 20 February 2017
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