Mark Jackson, deputy director of Estates, Facilities and IT at The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, considers the key benefits he has seen from his experience of implementing DFN Project SEARCH’s innovative training programme across three different Trusts.
He explains the wider impact the learning disability employment and education scheme could have if rolled out across the entire industry – including financially, on recruitment and diversity. Looking specifically at his own Trust’s work, he pinpoints specific examples of how partnering with DFN Project SEARCH has become a valuable strategy for hospital estates and their wider communities.
Everyone deserves the right to aspire to having the best opportunities in life, and to making themselves the best they can be. There came a point in early adulthood for each of us where we picked our paths and ventured into the world of work or further education.
Ideally, there wouldn’t be any barriers stopping anyone from making – what might seem to some – a simple step towards bettering themselves. Yet, that simply isn’t the case.
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