Access Interns

Ideal candidates for the Access Interns programme should meet the following criteria:

• Motivation to Build CV Experience: Demonstrates an eagerness to gain professional experience, showing commitment and the skills necessary to succeed in a corporate environment.
• Independent Travel Skills: Able to independently navigate travel arrangements to and from the workplace.
• Responsiveness to Communication: Proactively checks and responds to emails or other communications from the Access Interns team, ensuring smooth and timely correspondence.
• Workplace Readiness: Shows a willingness to engage in a professional setting, with an enthusiasm for learning, collaborating, and contributing positively.
• Reliability and Accountability: Manges times effectively, meets deadlines, and follows through on responsibilities.
• Independence: Interns are encouraged to demonstrate a level of independence, as the programme provides opportunities to work in a professional setting that values self-sufficiency and proactive engagement.

We are seeking talents students with disabilities, long-term conditions, and special educational needs. If that’s you, join Access Interns and unlock your potential.

Summary of eligibility criteria

To apply to Access Interns for summer 2025, you must:

• Consider yourself to have a disability or long-term condition as defined in the Equality Act 2012 and/or have a special educational need (SEN) in one of the following areas:
  • Communication and interaction
  • Cognition and learning
  • Social, emotional, and mental health
  • Sensory and/or physical needs

• Have the right to work in the UK during the summer.
• Be in your final year of post-16 level study and aged between 18 and 19.

To be eligible for the programme, applicants must self-identify with the definition of disability or long-term condition as outlined in the Equality Act 2010. You are disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities.

You can read the full definition on the UK Government website.

We aim to work collaborate with schools to provide corporate internships for their students. The programme welcomes students both with and without an Education, Health and Care plan, as well as those identified by their school as having special educational needs (SEN), commonly referred to as K-students.

In accordance with the UK government’s SEND Code of Practise, we recognise four areas of SEND needs:

• Communication and interaction
• Cognition and learning
• Social, emotional, and mental health
• Sensory and/or physical needs

We will not ask you for medical evidence of your disability – we only ask that you identify with the legal definition as outline above and/or have a special educational need.

To participate in the Access Interns programme, you must have the right to work in the UK during summer 2025.

This means you are a British or Irish citizen or a non-EEA national with Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK.

If you are an EU/EEA/Swiss national, you are eligible if you are a resident living in the UK with pre-settled or settled status. If you arrived in the UK after 2020, you will need other documentation such as a student visa.

During our process, you will be required to show your passport, or other documentation, to prove your eligibility to work in the UK.

If you have settled or pre-settled status under the EU settlement scheme or e-visa you will need to provide a share code and your date of birth.

A driving licence cannot be used as right to work evidence.

For the most up-to-date information on the right to work in the UK, please visit UK Visa and Immigration Home Office website and the UK Council for International Affairs website.