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Hi Debbie thanks for this, I have emailed Gillian to advise that I will try to contact some of the technicians on the courses past and present to see if they would be interested in linking up, I have forwarded your email to Gillian and Im sure she will be in touch Jacqui From: Deborah SIMMONS <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Monday, 14 October 2013, 10:32 Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] OH technicians I am an Occupational Health Technician – I would be more than happy to link up J Debbie Simmons Occupational Health Technician Abermed Limited Wallace House Falcon Court Preston Farm Industrial Estate Stockton TS18 3TX Tel: 01642 566344 Email: [log in to unmask] web: www.abermed.com Aberdeen . Dundee . Edinburgh . Glasgow . Great Yarmouth . Inverness . London . Norwich Research Park . Teesside From:[log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kinselley, Gillian - Oxfordshire Customer Services Sent: 11 October 2013 12:42 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] OH technicians I have not used this list for some time and lost a little touch with everybody in the OH field…. We are currently being outsourced and one of my team is a OH Technician and I am trying to link her to other OH Technicians so she has some contacts going forward…. Anybody out there? Regards Gillian Kinselley OH Manager Oxfordshire County Council until 31 Oct 2013 From:[log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alicja Oduyemi Sent: 27 October 2012 12:17 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] Access to Work Hello Jennifer, I have used Access to Work support for a client who has dyslexia and dyspraxia and the support we received was brilliant. This lady has worked for the same company for 8 years under a few different managers who always complained about her poor performance at work but have not done much about it. When I assessed her in June, I offered her support and advised her to do an assessment for dyslexia. She is not an easy person to manage because she always denies that there is any issue on her part and she always blames the managers for bullying her. Well, first I used the Lexxic company which specialises in assessment and support for dyslexia and dyspraxia and the company paid £750 for the assessment. The outcome was that this lady suffers from severe dyslexia and mild dyspraxia. This lady was very angry and upset about it and refused to release any information to her manager from the report because she saw it as it was telling her that she is 'stupid'. Also, there advice on how to support her at work was not very good as it did not give us advice on how to support her directly in her post - administrator for a Medical Centre for homeless and refugees where communication either direct or over the phone was quite a big problem for this client plus other problems with the computer. I was not present during this assessment as the client requested to do it without the OH being present at this stage, so we respected her wish. Anyway, to support this lady and to give her a second opinion, I contacted the Access to Work for support and they have been brilliant. Within 2 weeks we had an appointment, I was present during the assessment so I could highlight our concerns (the client agreed to it) and the assessor came to the place where she works to have a better understanding of her workplace (Lexxic assessor did it in her office). We received the report and brilliant recommendations directly related to her job role and how to support this lady at work within too weeks. This happened in August this year and since than every time I have any query about dyslexia, dyspraxia etc. I recommend everybody Access to Work and so far I have not had any bad feedback about them. In my opinion they are great and they deliver an outstanding support to people in distress and need. Regards Alicja On 25 October 2012 20:21, Jennifer Lord <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Dear group members, I have recently joined the group after being informed about it from Susan Gorton and Anne Harris. I work for Randstad Student and Worker support. We are a specialist division of Randstad and a leader in our field. We work in partnership with universities, colleges, workplaces and jobcentres to provide non-medical helpers to those with physical and learning disabilities. We have been actively working with Access to Work for the past 4 years to provide support workers for those with disabilities, from Dyslexia Tutors, to Job coaches and Job aides. I am looking to help provide better support for people who have a disability and I would greatly like any feedback you have regarding your experiences with Access to Work. We wish to pass this feedback on to them, as we have established relationships with their external relations team. Access to Work ultimately wish to make more people aware of their services and the support they can provide, whilst also improving their service to meet the needs of the customer. Any feedback you have would be highly beneficial so we can drive this forward and achieve the best possible disability support for all those who require it in the workplace. I look forward to your responses and if you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me on the forum. 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