A project working to help ambitious young people with special educational needs into full-time paid work is hosting an drop-in event.

Whitefield Academy Trust and Barts Health NHS Trust run a programme called Project Search, which works to find full-time, paid employment for students across North East London with special educational needs.

More than 70 per cent of young people who have graduated from the programme have attained full-time employment and remain in work several years later.

The project offers full-time, unpaid supported internship with young people, aged 16 to 24, at Whipps Cross Hospital for a year, in a variety of job placements.

On Thursday, March 21, a drop-in event to find out more about the programme is being held between 1pm and 3pm at Whipps Cross Hospital.

There will be an opportunity to meet the team, speak to interns and graduates, hear from managers and mentors from different hospital departments and go on a tour of the hospital workplace.

Project Search is currently recruiting its 2019/20 cohort to begin in September.

For more information, visit: www.projectsearch.org.uk or to register to attend, e-mail: enquiries@projectsearch.org.uk.