Specialised services for people with disability or mental health conditions
The new Disability Employment Services provide improved services for job seekers with disability, injury, or health condition, their families and carers, and employers.
Disability Employment Services providers are organisations contracted by the Australian Government across Australia in more than 1900 sites. They provide a wide range of services and support to help you find and maintain sustainable employment.
Disability Employment Services providers will work with you to develop an Employment Pathway Plan, tailored to your individual needs. This will set out the services and assistance that you will receive, to help you find and stay in a job. Once placed in a job, Disability Employment Services providers will continue to support you for at least 26 weeks or longer if required.
You or your employer may also use the following services or be eligible for the following programs.
JobAccess is a one-stop information shop on employment of people with disability for employers, employees, jobseekers and service providers including:
- disability at work
- tools and solutions to remove workplace barriers
- government support for employment of people with disability
- recruiting people with disability
- making workplaces accessible
- assistance for your current employees with disability
- financial assistance with assistive technology and wages
- disability awareness training for your staff and Auslan interpreting
Visit JobAccess or phone a JobAccess adviser on 1800 464 800.
The Employment Assistance Fund provides financial assistance to individuals looking for, or already in work, employers, and Disability Employment Services providers to fund services including workplace modifications, and Auslan interpreting services for job interviews and work related activities.
The Supported Wage System provides an industrial relations mechanism that enables the payment of a productivity-based wage to people who cannot work at full productivity.