Your stories
Chelsea
Access to Work itself is not accessible. It is very English based. We can’t access it in BSL and explain our needs in our first language. Emails are delayed.
As deaf staff there is an extra burden of administration and additional work to apply to and claim access to work.
Leanne
At the job centre they sit you in front of phones and tell you to apply. I can’t do that. They told me to bring my mum to the job centre to call jobs for me!
It is infantalising! I want for deaf people to live independently and for an interpreter to be provided.
Jess
When I was looking for a job, on my CV, I would put BSL user and deaf. But, I was never successful in getting an interview. I decided to take off BSL user and deaf.
Once I took it off, I started getting through to the interview stage. But after interviews I would never hear from them again