Employment and hearing loss

theresa59
theresa59 Community member Posts: 1 Listener
edited March 2018 in Work
Hi I am SSD and I lost my hearing 3-years ago due to a virus and sepsis so I have only got low to moderate hearing in my left ear .I lost my job last November and I am finding it very difficult to get another job. I don't receive anything  the from benefits system at the moment so there for I cannot get any help from the job plus office until I can claim universal credit. I know I cannot go back into noisy inviroment. I am not dealing with my earning loss very well.l am volunteering at the moment 2 days but I need to find a job but I think I probably need retaining .l've just paid out £90 for a course that is 11 weeks long done 6 weeks still nothing in my folder.l would appreciate any advice you can give me in what I could do. Thank you Theresa        ps : forgot to say its a business and administration course:smile:  

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  • steve51
    steve51 Community member Posts: 7,122 Championing
    Hi @theresa59

    Welcome it’s great to meet you today.

    I do so much hope that we can offer you some hope/advice.

    Please please let me know if I can help you further ?????
  • Lasian_Alumni
    Lasian_Alumni Community member Posts: 651 Empowering
    Hi @theresa59,

    Have you had a look at if our Support to Work service could help?

    Hopefully our employment advisor will be able to offer some support soon :)


  • Sam_Alumni
    Sam_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,605 Championing
    Support to work could be great for you! @pia_scope @Donisha_scope @rian_scope @Zaid_Scope @mwila_scope - could one of you offer any information or support?
  • Rian_Alumni
    Rian_Alumni Community member Posts: 35 Connected
    Good Afternoon @theresa59
    I am Rian from Scope Support to Work I would firstly like to say sorry about your curret situation in terms of benefits and not being able to find employment.

    I would to inform you that we have a Benefits adviser here on the Support to Work programme and we can also help you in moving forward to help gain employment.


    We can support with how you can disclose our disability to an employer I would advise you to contact us here so we can support you in getting back to work.

    www.scope.org.uk/support/services/employment/support-work

    Kind Regards


    Rian