Preparing for Supported Internships

Supported Internship is a final year of education, this is because the goal of the programme is to help young people transition from education into paid work (with support from a job coach).

There are some key things that you can do to prepare for a Supported Internship. The most important thing for anybody accessing a Supported Internship is to have done some work experience or volunteering. This is because it helps you to gain knowledge about what it is you might like doing, and where you feel your strengths and skills are. This helps us to ensure we are finding the best work placement for you- to ensure you have the best opportunity of progressing into paid work at the end of the programme.

Before coming on to a Supported Internship, we will work with you and the people that know you best to complete a ‘vocational profile’. A vocational profile is an important piece of work we do before anybody starts on the Supported Internship programme. This profile helps us to build up a picture of you. For example, your interests and skills, past work experience, past information about school, information about travel training, and also the areas of support that you would benefit from. All this information is key to ensuring we find you the best work placement to meet your needs, and it also ensures that the job coach can put the best strategies in place to support you to reach your potential whilst on programme.

Preparing for adulthood

Vocational Profile resource is a discovery document that is specifically related to work and supporting someone to find a job.

Vocational profile PDF

Page last reviewed: 07 November 2023