Find out here about getting work and working, support schemes, grants, mentored work placements and your work-related rights and entitlements.
Background information
Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People With Disabilities 2015-2024.
Government’s current Employment Strategy for People With Disabilities.
Useful websites
Information on working with a disability, including Employment Rights; Looking for Work, Options at Work; Support Schemes; Training Opportunities; Disability Payments and grants.
Information on workplace supports and entitlements.
DSP online recruitment website: connects you with employers; automatic job-matching and notification; advice on CVs and interviews.
Create your own career profile, discover your career interests and personality, and get your interests matched to careers and courses. Info on career profiles and sectors and apprenticeships.
Skills Summary is an easy to use online tool for young people that measures the skills you gain by participating in non-formal education – such as volunteering, youth work and other out-of-school opportunities – so you can communicate the value of these essential skills to future employers.
Central point for people with disabilities in Ireland to access resources and support in your journey towards employment or entrepreneurship.
Info on graduate job opportunities and events, and careers advice.
AHEAD: Association for Higher Education Access & Disability
Looking for Work page for graduates. Sections include: I’ve graduated: what next? WAM mentored work placement programme; Job seeking tips. Disclosure; Grants; Work-related Legislation. Check out their great guide: How to Tell Employers About Your Disability
Irish Wheelchair Association Ability Programme
Three-year long employability and job-seeking skills programme for people with a physical disability aged 18–29.
Information on how the Civil and Public Service promotes and supports the development and employment of people with disabilities and promotes diversity and inclusion.
Ready for Work EmployAbility Service
Business in the Community Ireland runs Ready for Work, an EmployAbility Service that provides career guidance, work experience and support to people with disabilities and health challenges.
Specialist consultancy that recruits and supports talented people with Autism and Aspergers, and similar challenges.
Provide pathways to work through training, education and employment for people with disabilities and other groups.
Employment support programmes for people with a disability / disabled people
Irish Human Rights & Equality Commission
Information on your rights in the workplace.
Local contacts
Civic Offices, Main Street, Bray, County Wicklow, A98 X6N3
Tel: (01) 211 7900 (national number)
Email: brayqueries@welfare.ie
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) service, providing employment services and information on the full range of income supports provided by DEASP.
Opening hours: Mon & Tues 9:15-17:00, Wed: 9:15-15:00, Thurs & Fri: 9:15-17:00, closed for lunch each day between 12:30 and 14:00
The Mill Building, The Maltings, Co. Wicklow.
Tel: 01 211 6474. email: info@employabilitywicklow.ie
Free employment information and supports, such as job coaching, for jobseekers aged over 18 who have a disability. Information and supports for employers on employing people with disabilities.
Bray Area Partnership IMPACT Initiative
Unit 42, Southern Cross Business Park, Boghall Road, Ballymorris, Bray
Tel: (01) 963 3342 Email: orlabutler@brayareapartnership.ie
Supports for people with disabilities aged 18 and over, living in Bray and North Wicklow, to upskill, get employment, progress in your career or become self-employed.
1st Floor, Boulevard Centre, Quinsborough Road, Bray
Tel: (01) 286 8266 Email: info@brayareapartnership.ie
Training for work; local employment service (see listing below); supports to become self-employed; well-being supports; Tús community work placements; family supports; free home insulation scheme.
Bray Area Partnership Local Area Employment Service
86 Main Street, Bray
Tel: (01) 276 5592 Email: info@braylesn.ie
Local employment service: support to explore your employment options, identify education and training, search for and apply for jobs, cv preparation and interview skills.
1st Floor, Boulevard Centre, Quinsborough Road, Bray
Tel: (01) 205 0111 Email: info@braycommunityenterprise.ie
Free support and training to help you become self-employed / set up your own business and sign onto the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance.
Wicklow Local Enterprise Office
Tel: 0404 30800 Email: enterprise@leo.wicklowcoco.ie
Supports and training to help you become self-employed / set up your own business.
KWETB Bray Adult Guidance Service
1 Brennan’s Parade, Bray.
Tel: 01 276 4638 Email: guidancebray@kwetb.ie
Website: www.kwetb.ie
Free professional adult guidance, counselling, information and support to unemployed people who wish to return to learning, education or work.
Getting Work & Working News
Free Career Guidance Workshop
May 4, 2022Are you a person with a disability looking to plan your career path, but not sure where to start? Bray Area Partnership’s IMPACT Initiative is running a free Career Guidance…... Read More
New CREATE employment programme
June 22, 2021CREATE is a new initiative from the Independent Living Movement Ireland. It stands for‘Creating Raised Expectations and Aspirations Towards Employment’. The project will work with disabled people to develop their…... Read More