Open Door (Employment Service)

Open Door is an integrated employment programme that provides waged work experience, intensive support, training and personal development to disabled people with limited work experience and/or qualifications.

Open Door offers a paid work experience placement for up to 50 weeks to disabled people. It provides a range of support, training and personal development options to each trainee to better equip them to enter the world of work.

Firstly, the programme matches each individual with a suitable work placement. The object is to raise the employability of disabled people by helping them develop their skills, qualifications and experience. Our success rate has been excellent with a positive outcome rate of over 80%.

Open door was designed specifically to meet the needs of disabled people who wanted to enter employment, education or volunteering. Over the years this successful programme has also helped to raise the awareness of employers, enabling them to better meet the needs of their disabled customers.