This is a great opportunity for a disabled person (including D/deaf) interested digital communications to gain valuable work experience with Independent Living Fund Scotland. Payment: UK Living Wage rate of £9.30 per hour Accountable to: Outside The Box Development Support Contract: 420 hours, to be worked part-time at 15-20… Continue Reading Communications Internship with Outside The Box (Closing date 8 January 2020)
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Local Public Life Internship Vacancies, Vacancies, We Can Work News | 0 comment | 27 November, 2019 | 0
This is a great opportunity for a disabled person (including D/deaf) interested in events and fundraising to gain valuable work experience with a Scottish charity Finding Your Feet. Payment: UK Living Wage rate of £9.30 per hour Accountable to: Finding Your Feet Contract: 420 hours, ideally 20-30 hours… Continue Reading Events Internship with Finding Your Feet (Closing date 8 January 2020)
Employability and Civic Participation, Intern stories, Internships, We Can Work News | Comments are Closed | 12 April, 2019 | 3
Callum Hendry is completing his internship with Angus MacDonald MSP. He has written a blog about what it has been like to work at the Scottish Parliament, included the highlights and detailed the flexibility that’s made it a great place to work! Before starting the internship, I had been unemployed for 2 years. Since graduating… Continue Reading My Internship experience, the first step on a new journey.
Employability and Civic Participation, Intern stories, Internships, We Can Work News | Comments are Closed | 29 March, 2019 | 2
Eleanor Macleod is completing her internship with The Scottish Government in the Communities Analysis Division. She has written a blog about what it has been like to work at the Scottish Government, included the highlights and detailed the adjustments that’s made it a great place to work! Panic, Fear & Dread. These were the three… Continue Reading My Experience as a Social Security Intern
Employability and Civic Participation, Intern stories, Internships, We Can Work News | Comments are Closed | 18 February, 2019 | 0
Lily Pattison interned with the Scottish Prison Service for 4 months in the Equality and Diversity Team. Lily details below about what it was like to work at the Scottish Prison Service, what her internship included and the adjustments that made it a great place to work! Working at the Scottish Prison Service over the… Continue Reading This internship will shine on my CV for many years to come!
Employability and Civic Participation, Intern stories, Internships, We Can Work News | Comments are Closed | 22 May, 2018 | 0
Rebecca Farren interned with Neil Findlay MSP for 4 months with an Parliamentary Internship. These internships give disabled people a chance to get experience of parliamentary research and processes in the Scottish Parliament. Here she tells us about working at parliament, settling in to Edinburgh, managing PAs and adjustments in work, and where she is… Continue Reading I found my new normal and it was fantastic!
Employability and Civic Participation, Intern stories, Internships, We Can Work News | Comments are Closed | 1 May, 2018 | 0
Laura Chapman, aka ‘Mole’ was an intern with Christina McKelvie MSP for the SNP from January to April 2018. She did parliamentary research on Universal Credit, speech writing and worked on a parliamentary bill about domestic abuse. Below, Mole tells us about what the internship has meant to her. Hope you enjoy the read, we… Continue Reading Mole’s internship blog “Thank you for joy!”
Susan is doing an internship with The Care Inspectorate at their offices in Dundee. Her project involves looking at the tools the inspectorate is using when evaluating the service of care providers. Susan has been an active member of Inclusion Scotland for some time now, and is keen to see more disabled people taking on… Continue Reading Disabled people- Internships are yours for the taking! (Susan’s blog)