Opportunities for work

The Our Rights Group is a self-advocacy group. The role of a self-advocate is to speak-up for the rights of people with learning disabilities, using their lived experience as a starting point.

An Expert by Experience is a person who has personal experience of using health and/or social care in the past 8 years. They provide a safe space for people currently receiving support to share their experiences. Experts by Experience work alongside CQC Inspectors.

Quality Checkers are people with experience of being supported, who we employ to help us review, check and monitor our services.

Tuck by Truck deliver boxes of snacks to be sold at local businesses at various sites every week. The operation provides an opportunity for employees to experience working as part of a team and learn a wide range of skills, including customer service, money handling, and stock taking.

The Oliver McGowan Learning Disabilities and Autism Training is unlike any other, due to its use of co-trainers with lived experience. The morning session is delivered by a facilitator alongside a co-trainer with lived experience of learning disabilities. In the afternoon session the facilitator is joined by a co-trainer with lived experience of autism.