The Supported Employment Service have been supporting individuals with a disability and/or disadvantages to find work in Kent since 1992. Our service provides support to individuals to gain and sustain paid employment. We use a one-to-one, person-centred approach, tailored to best suit the individual’s needs. We use our specialist knowledge and experience vulnerable learner groups, adults with a disability, health condition or disadvantage, and SEND students.

We work with diverse groups of individuals and currently have several different contracts in Kent and Medway. Anyone can refer to our service. Refer yourself or an individual for support.

Some of the groups we support include:

• people with a disability
• people with a health condition
• offenders and ex-offenders
• carers and ex-carers
• people who are homeless
• former members of the armed forces
• members of the armed forces reserves
• a partner of a serving member of the armed forces

• people with current or historical drug/alcohol dependency
• care experienced young people or care leavers
• people on the Ukrainian scheme
• resettled Afghans
• victims/survivors of domestic abuse
• victims of modern slavery
• young people at risk of or involved in serious violence.

As a leading provider of supported employment, our service also provides consultancy and training to organisations and education providers, including face to face and online learning modules for staff to learn the model of support. We are currently offering an overview to supported employment online module, free of charge to all Kent education providers:
Overview to Kent Supported Employment and the Supported Employment model