{"id":10981,"date":"2021-05-04T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=10981"},"modified":"2021-05-04T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:45:07","slug":"fully-funded-internships-for-autistic-students-employers-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/fully-funded-internships-for-autistic-students-employers-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Fully funded internships for autistic students \u2013 employers wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The University of Westminster is pleased to be working in partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk\/\">Ambitious about Autism<\/a>\u00a0and Santander Universities to deliver the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk\/what-we-do\/employment\/employ-autism-network\/higher-education-network\">Employ Autism Higher Education Network.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are looking for employers who can offer an eight-week summer internship to an autistic student. Employers will be given training and support on how best to support people with autism, and internships are fully-funded meaning there is no cost to the employer.<\/p>\n<p>There are many benefits to offering an internship to an autistic student such as access to a pool of untapped talent, promotion of a range of thought, and a reflection of the diversity of your clients and communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are interested in finding out more about this programme, then please get in touch\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:employautism@westminster.ac.uk\">employautism@westminster.ac.uk<\/a>. Places are limited so we advise getting in touch soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can also read more in\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/employ-autism\/employ-autism-ambitious-about-autism-santader-flyer.pdf\">employer leaflet\u00a0<\/a>or watch a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vpo8N9OYn6E\">short film<\/a>\u00a0on the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Westminster is pleased to be working in partnership with\u00a0Ambitious about Autism\u00a0and Santander Universities to deliver the\u00a0Employ Autism Higher Education Network. We are looking for employers who can offer an eight-week summer internship to an autistic student. Employers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":10982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career","category-employability","category-general","category-internship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}