Applying for Access to Work – Part 2

Part 1 of this blog, is where I talk about my motivation for applying to Access to Work and what the application form entailed. In this second part, I cover the queries that came up and what it’s actually like having someone working for you.

As mentioned in the first part of this blog, the overall application process took around four months. This was certainly stressful, but also difficult because I’d recruited a support worker to work for me, and I wasn’t able to tell them when they’d be able to start. I was worried that they’d lose patience and look for another job.

Communication with Access to Work was hard, as they always wanted to phone me, even though I’d stipulated that as a reasonable adjustment, I preferred email.

This meant that I nearly had my application cancelled, because I kept missing their calls.