10 episodes
The Ten Demandments: How to improve employment services for people with disability NOVA Employment
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- Education
The Ten Demandments is a clear, accessible, ten-step guide challenging listeners to alter their attitude and approach to disability employment services, be they people with disability, care-givers, employers, policymakers, or educators.
Often attitudinal change is the hardest part.
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Timeless Post-placement Support
Just as the job seeker with a disability needs support to find work, so too will they need support to maintain their place in the workplace through systems, staffing, management, and product changes. This support must be ongoing and client-centred. Training in how to facilitate effective post-placement support used to be compulsory within the disability employment sector. Sadly, this is no longer the case, with services sometimes reduced to only phone contact.
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Community Connections
Although it's not the primary function of a disability employment service, community connections are vital to a well-rounded life. Networks provide the opportunity to make friends, learn, and share pastimes. Many work opportunities come from within our own web. The job seeker is more likely to stay in work when they are supported by a strong group of family, friends, colleagues, and neighbours.
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Multi-skilled, Expert, Well-supported and Caring Staff
According to Joe Graffam from Deakin University, staff turnover in the disability employment field runs at 50 percent. This doesn't happen if the service provider respects the role, conducts relevant and timely training, and generally provides support where staff need it. Effective employment service staff need to care deeply about their clients. In turn, staff need to feel cared for.
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Individualised Job Search
The easy way to find work is to hop on the Internet, ring a business, and ask if they'd like XXX dollars to employ so-and-so. The harder yet more sustainable approach is to know the job seeker, understand the job market, and research a good fit between the two. Finding work that suits the candidate rather than sourcing candidates that fit the work may appear like a subtle difference, but it is a vital indicator in long-term job satisfaction and job retention.
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Proactive Engagement with Job Seeking
Many punitive systems exist whereby the job seeker is punished for not showing up to meetings or activities. Instead, job seekers need a supportive system that engages them in training and job-seeking program and, wherever possible actively involves them in their own job seeking.
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Support not Subsidies
Generally, the disability employment sector doesn't ask employers to consider the value of a job seeker with a disability will add to their business. Instead employment services lead with a subsidy. However, 'best practice' leads with the job seeker's strengths, frequently doing away with subsidies while investing in good job matching and post-placement support.
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