Employing a person with a learning disability

Jobs People Do

I have added a Blockbuster quiz about Job titles .The students have helped with this and provided  me with some brief job descriptions.

You can make your own on Teacher Direct 

 or play our  Quiz here

See a PowerPoint  Blockbuster work skills resources here

Behaving appropriately at Work

Here are some resources for teaching about behaviour and attitude at work forOCR Life and Living Entry 3 unit Behaving appropriately at Work.

Northern Ireland Curriculum

Key stage 3 Education for Employability Book 4 page 4.http://www.nicurriculum.org.uk/docs/inclusion_and_sen/mld/employ_ks4_4.pdf

A work sheet which can be used to record appropriate behaviour and attitudes at work


Thematic unit : Nothing stays the Samee
Employability .Its up to me Resource 20 : Things to remember page 50,51
2 pages of scenarios to discuss attitude and behaviour at work.

More videos about jobs

A video about Working at Starbucks A typical day



A video of Asda People

  Ian Driver colleague   or on You tube (not a relevant job but useful for those who love lorries!)





Peter - Fish counter

Tracy Store community colleague


Allan Personal delivery driver



NB always check these will work at college before you use them!



Direct Gov has a Jobs Profile section.

There is a page of text about almost every job including pay and working hours,for example Car Valet Bus or Coach driver

Posters from Aspiration for Life

Aspirations for Life News letter
has a range of posters showing positive images of people with learning disabilities at work There are 16 posters in total, and they are all A3 size. You can buy a set of 16 for £16.80 (this includes VAT and postage)
They also say ' you are also welcome to download the posters as Jpeg images from this website (right click each picture below and press "save image as") but we should stress that these are at a relatively low pixel size and would not print up particularly well at A3.'

Real jobs for people with a learning disability

The Easy Read Guide : Government strategy to get people with a learning disability into paid work for 16 hours per week by 2025
Also see Valuing Employment Now Dept of Health


'Richard loves trains. He has a moderate learning disability. Sabre Supported Employment found Richard a job as a Train Care Assistant. His job coach stayed with him for a year. He taught Richard the tasks of the job to make sure he never made any mistakes. Fourteen years later, Richard is still in full time employment on the railways.' Valuing Employment Now: real jobs for people with learning disabilities page 24




To make this strategy work, everyone will need to believe that it is possible for people with learning disabilities to get jobs. They will need to believe that this would be a good thing.Valuing Employment Now: real jobs for people with learning disabilities page 18A job will be the usual choice when people leave school or college.
People will not do courses at college that don’t give them skills for work.
Supported employment with job coaching will be part of college courses.
There will be a clear pathway to work for all people with learning disabilities and families will be involved.Valuing Employment Now: real jobs for people with learning disabilities page 11

Watch this short video on the Department of Health website
Real jobs for people with a Learning Disability

Workbased learners

The NIACE website has 'free resources to help work-based learning providers and practitioners in supporting learners with a range of learning difficulties and disabilities,

The resources consist of:

• a series of case studies - highlighting practical examples of providers with a wealth of experience in supporting learners with learning difficulties and disabilities in work-based learning
• seven briefing sheets - each highlighting a particular learning difficulty or disability, explaining how it may affect learners in work-based learning and signposting to more sources of information and support.' These include the briefing sheet:

Working with learners who have learning difficulties

Also on the NIACE website are

Moving into Work:
'There are six information sheets in this set which are aimed at a number of different key
players who need to be involved in the process of supporting people in their transition to
work': Copies of the information sheets can be downloaded from NIACE


These include a guide for Employers






and a An information sheet for people with learning difficulties
with simple text and pictures


Source : NIACE