Project | SEARCH is a year-long internship programme, aimed at supporting young people with a learning disability and/or autism to move towards and into work.
In Exeter, this is a collaboration between: Pluss, Petroc, and The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Project | SEARCH helps young people in Exeter achieve employment and independence.
Eligibility
Project | SEARCH is aimed at young people in Exeter, between the ages of 18-25 with either a learning disability and/or autism.
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Project Search helps young people achieve employment and independence.
The collaboration between Pluss, Petroc, and The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust began in Exeter at the end of 2022.
Interns receive training and support before and after each day’s work placements.
You will also receive on-the-job support from dedicated job coaches and will complete three rotations of 10-week placements, across several departments and services.
Our Project | SEARCH sites have a combined job outcome rate of over 70%.
This programme is also run at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth where Project | SEARCH has been running for several years. Click to find out more about Project | SEARCH Plymouth.
#NoOneLeftBehind
Project | SEARCH adopts the supported employment model, which argues that learning how to do a job well within the workplace (as opposed to in a classroom) is the most effective way for people with a learning disability to achieve paid work.
The model was first developed in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to support people with learning disabilities into work. Project | SEARCH now runs in over 200 organisations around the world.
It aims to help remove significant barriers faced by people with learning disabilities looking for employment.
In the UK, for example, only 7% of people with learning disabilities nationally are in any form of paid work, compared with 73% of the wider population.
The end goal for each student is to achieve competitive employment either with the host employer or elsewhere in the community using the skills they have acquired.
Making headlines
Project|SEARCH has been featured in several news items and publications, here are just a few:
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📻 Listen to a feature about Project | SEARCH on BBC Radio Devon
Project | SEARCH is delivered by our Community Interest Company, Pluss.
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