Trust helps students in search of work
The trust welcomed its latest group of students as part of pre-Project SEARCH work experience, a national initiative offering work experience and employment opportunities to students with learning disabilities and autism.
The national employment rate for people with learning disabilities and autism is 6% but the trust has offered more than 70% of its interns paid employment since 2017.
The latest group of students from Shaftesbury High School in Harrow will spend three hours a week at local hospitals involved in scanning, filing, assisting with packing medication and meeting and greeting visitors.
Chief executive Jaqueline Docherty welcomed the group which included a tour of the hospital with mentors and managers from departments including learning and organisational development, pharmacy, Haldane, bowel cancer screening, safeguarding and learning disability and volunteers
The pre Project SEARCH work experience programme is funded by Health Education England.