JobAccess is a comprehensive, easy to use website and a telephone information service that provides advice on disability employment related matters. It offers help and workplace solutions for people with disability and their employers.

About the JobAccess website

The JobAccess website provides information developed specifically for employers, job seekers, employees with disability and co-workers of people with disability.

It has step-by-step guides and checklists on recruitment, job searching, adjusting a workplace, employer incentives, understanding rights and responsibilities at work and much more.

You can use the site to find information on particular disabilities or disability related employment issues.

The online Workplace Adjustment Tool can be used to source practical ideas and solutions for workplace modifications. The tool identifies suppliers of products and solutions in your state.

JobAccess Advisors

The professional telephone advice service offered by JobAccess gives you confidential, expert advice on disability employment matters.

The team of JobAccess advisers can answer your questions and direct you to other information on government services.

Financial assistance for employers

A range of government incentives and services are available for employers of people with disability. The JobAccess website gives you information on how employers can apply for:

• The Employment Assistance Fund - covers a range of work-related modifications and services, including changes to the workplace or to work vehicles, adaptive equipment, Auslan interpreting, deafness awareness training and specialist services for people with specific learning disorders or mental health conditions.
  
• The Supported Wage System - allows eligible people with disability to access productivity based wage assessments to determine fair pay for fair work.
  
• The Wage Subsidy Scheme - payments made to employers through Disability Employment Services to help cover the costs of paying wages in the first few months of employment of a person with disability

Visit the JobAccess website, or call 1800 464 800 to find out more.