3. AHRC Willing to Work Report
• People with disability are less likely to be employed full-time
(27.0%) than people without disability (53.8%)
• Australians with disability are more likely to be unemployed
(10.0% compared with 5.3% for those without disability) and
face longer periods of unemployment than people without
disability
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4. AHRC W2W Report
Recommendations
• National community education and information
campaign:
1. lift awareness of economic benefits of employing
people with disability
2. dispel myths and stereotypes to change the way we
value the contributions of people with disability.
• Promote government supports available to employers
through Disability Employment Services, JobAccess, the
Employment Assistance Fund and the National Disability
Resource Coordinator.
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5. AHRC W2W Recommendations:
Employers
The Willing to Work Report offers strategies for employers to lift
participation and ensure non-discriminatory employment practices:
Leadership commitment to inclusive and diverse workplaces
Non-discriminatory recruitment and retention practices
Building workplace flexibility
Provide targeted education and training in the workplace
Build healthy workplaces
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6. Biggest Job Growth by
Occupation
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New Jobs
Health Professionals 125,100
Carers & Aides 111,800
Business & Marketing Professionals 92,900
Sales Assistants 88,900
Specialist Managers 71,900
Teachers 68,700
Personal Service Workers 51,400
Hospitality & Retail Managers 47,400
Hospitality Workers 37,000
ICT Professionals 36,900
Total Top 10 732,000
Source: From Australia Dept. of Employment, 2016 Employment Projections
Top Ten Occupations (2-digit level), 2016-2020
7. NDIS Victoria Market Statement
Position
• More people: The Victoria market for disability supports is estimated to grow
from 78,000 people to 105,000 in 2019
• Level of Funding: Annual growth expected from $2.6B to $5.1B in 2020
• More jobs: The FTE workforce required to service this demand is estimated to
grow from 20,000 to 42,000 by 2020
• The biggest markets will be Southern Melbourne, Brimbank Melton, Hume
Moreland and Bayside Peninsula
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8. Future of disability employment
Changes to disability employment need to better align it with the principles
underpinning the NDIS.
• Three main areas to improve disability employment:
• Better engagement with, and support for, employers,
• Ensuring service providers can deliver effective support that is high quality, and
• Empowering participants to make informed decisions.
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9. Future of disability employment
• Providers will be given the opportunity to expand their services to additional
regions, based on how successful they are in their existing services,
• Opportunity for new providers to qualify and enter the market, to provide DES
services.
• Participants may chose their provider regardless of whether they live in a
specified region; they can go to a provider in the neighbouring region.
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10. Future of disability employment
Individualisation
• Easier access to quality information on providers and services
• Participants can choose the service that is right for them,
• Participants given more say in the type of assistance they receive,
• Greater portability in participant funding, and
• Reduce constraints on changing provider if participants are not satisfied with
the support they are receiving
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11. Future of disability employment
Individualisation
• Relax market share
• Enabling participants to choose from more providers
• Make it easier for participants to ‘vote with their feet’
Providers will need to respond to the views/needs of participants, for example, in
the way assistance is developed and provided, and in the range of supports
offered.
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12. Youth Employment Strategy
initiatives
National Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Trial - vocational assistance for young people (up to 25) with mental
illness
• Integrates employment and vocational support with clinical mental health and non-vocational support. Focus on
individual needs of people with mental illness seeking to remain in education or employment. Employment
specialists will provide career development advice and vocational and employment assistance - in tandem with
clinical support.
Other initiatives include:
• Investment Approach (Try, Test, Learn)
• Empowering YOUth (vulnerable young people aged 15–24 who are long-term unemployed or at risk of becoming
long-term unemployed
• The Youth Jobs PaTH provides three elements: Prepare – Trial – Hire: support young people under the age of 25
years gain employability skills and real work experience to get and keep a job, and incentives for employers to
take them on.
• NDIS School Leaver Employment supports, to foster new and innovative employment support options for people
with disability
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13. JobAccess supporting employers
• Expert advice via new website (employer section) and phone
• Employer engagement services
oHelping employers attract and retain the skills and talents of
people with disability
• Employment Assistance Fund
oFinancial help for employers and eligible people with disability
and mental health conditions to buy work related
modifications and services
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As an influencer in your clients’ recruitment process, you play a major role in the success, or not, of their quest to access the right people for their business.
So, how can you use your responsibility to deliver a full spectrum of candidates to your clients (candidates who reflect their customer base) and perhaps even change some lives?
Using the JobAccess website and services is a great start and there are also some simple principles you can follow that will help to promote inclusion and access in the attraction and recruitment practices of your clients.
Helping them achieve their employment goals, of course, will form a more binding relationship between recruiter and client.
As an influencer in your clients’ recruitment process, you play a major role in the success, or not, of their quest to access the right people for their business.
So, how can you use your responsibility to deliver a full spectrum of candidates to your clients (candidates who reflect their customer base) and perhaps even change some lives?
Using the JobAccess website and services is a great start and there are also some simple principles you can follow that will help to promote inclusion and access in the attraction and recruitment practices of your clients.
Helping them achieve their employment goals, of course, will form a more binding relationship between recruiter and client.
Employers, businesses and the organisations that represent them, have a critical role to play in recruiting, retaining and training people with disability. However, the Inquiry heard that employers may lack the knowledge, awareness and skills necessary for developing inclusive workplaces which support employees with disability. They may also be unaware of government programs and supports that can assist them.
The Willing to Work Report offers a suite of strategies for employers to lift representation and ensure non-discriminatory recruitment, retention and training practices while maintaining and improving productivity.
Leadership commitment: CEOs and organisational leaders should communicate their business’s commitment to inclusive and diverse workplaces to all staff. This should be supported by an organisational strategy which outlines the business case for a diverse workforce and could include goals such as:
meeting voluntary targets for employment of people with disability;
monitoring and reporting on performance against these targets and ensuring inclusive practices in relation to recruitment;
networking and mentoring for and of employees with disability.
Ensuring non-discriminatory recruitment and retention practices: Businesses should ensure that their recruitment and retention policies do not discriminate against people with disability. This could include reviewing recruitment processes to ensure that they are accessible and making promotional and training opportunities equally available to all employees, including those with disability.
Building workplace flexibility: As a critical recruitment and retention tool, businesses normalise flexible work by making job design, work location and hours flexible for all, as far as the demands of the role allow.
Provide targeted education and training in the workplace: In order to build inclusive, respectful workplaces employers provide staff with support and training about their rights and responsibilities at work, internal grievance processes, flexible leave options, any employee driven networks and the nature and impact of discrimination.
Employers should support managers and supervisors in creating and managing diverse teams and flexible workplaces by assisting with job redesign, building skills to manage employees flexibly, providing information for managers for example mental health guidelines, manager support and training on the nature and impact of discrimination.
Build healthy workplaces: Businesses should invest in health and wellbeing programs for staff. Implementing healthy work practices can be key to preventing chronic conditions and promoting good health. This could involve training of staff and managers about health, implementing ergonomic assessments or subsidising gym memberships.
Employers, businesses and the organisations that represent them, have a critical role to play in recruiting, retaining and training people with disability. However, the Inquiry heard that employers may lack the knowledge, awareness and skills necessary for developing inclusive workplaces which support employees with disability. They may also be unaware of government programs and supports that can assist them.
The Willing to Work Report offers a suite of strategies for employers to lift representation and ensure non-discriminatory recruitment, retention and training practices while maintaining and improving productivity.
Leadership commitment: CEOs and organisational leaders should communicate their business’s commitment to inclusive and diverse workplaces to all staff. This should be supported by an organisational strategy which outlines the business case for a diverse workforce and could include goals such as:
meeting voluntary targets for employment of people with disability;
monitoring and reporting on performance against these targets and ensuring inclusive practices in relation to recruitment;
networking and mentoring for and of employees with disability.
Ensuring non-discriminatory recruitment and retention practices: Businesses should ensure that their recruitment and retention policies do not discriminate against people with disability. This could include reviewing recruitment processes to ensure that they are accessible and making promotional and training opportunities equally available to all employees, including those with disability.
Building workplace flexibility: As a critical recruitment and retention tool, businesses normalise flexible work by making job design, work location and hours flexible for all, as far as the demands of the role allow.
Provide targeted education and training in the workplace: In order to build inclusive, respectful workplaces employers provide staff with support and training about their rights and responsibilities at work, internal grievance processes, flexible leave options, any employee driven networks and the nature and impact of discrimination.
Employers should support managers and supervisors in creating and managing diverse teams and flexible workplaces by assisting with job redesign, building skills to manage employees flexibly, providing information for managers for example mental health guidelines, manager support and training on the nature and impact of discrimination.
Build healthy workplaces: Businesses should invest in health and wellbeing programs for staff. Implementing healthy work practices can be key to preventing chronic conditions and promoting good health. This could involve training of staff and managers about health, implementing ergonomic assessments or subsidising gym memberships.
As an influencer in your clients’ recruitment process, you play a major role in the success, or not, of their quest to access the right people for their business.
So, how can you use your responsibility to deliver a full spectrum of candidates to your clients (candidates who reflect their customer base) and perhaps even change some lives?
Using the JobAccess website and services is a great start and there are also some simple principles you can follow that will help to promote inclusion and access in the attraction and recruitment practices of your clients.
Helping them achieve their employment goals, of course, will form a more binding relationship between recruiter and client.
As an influencer in your clients’ recruitment process, you play a major role in the success, or not, of their quest to access the right people for their business.
So, how can you use your responsibility to deliver a full spectrum of candidates to your clients (candidates who reflect their customer base) and perhaps even change some lives?
Using the JobAccess website and services is a great start and there are also some simple principles you can follow that will help to promote inclusion and access in the attraction and recruitment practices of your clients.
Helping them achieve their employment goals, of course, will form a more binding relationship between recruiter and client.
As an influencer in your clients’ recruitment process, you play a major role in the success, or not, of their quest to access the right people for their business.
So, how can you use your responsibility to deliver a full spectrum of candidates to your clients (candidates who reflect their customer base) and perhaps even change some lives?
Using the JobAccess website and services is a great start and there are also some simple principles you can follow that will help to promote inclusion and access in the attraction and recruitment practices of your clients.
Helping them achieve their employment goals, of course, will form a more binding relationship between recruiter and client.
As an influencer in your clients’ recruitment process, you play a major role in the success, or not, of their quest to access the right people for their business.
So, how can you use your responsibility to deliver a full spectrum of candidates to your clients (candidates who reflect their customer base) and perhaps even change some lives?
Using the JobAccess website and services is a great start and there are also some simple principles you can follow that will help to promote inclusion and access in the attraction and recruitment practices of your clients.
Helping them achieve their employment goals, of course, will form a more binding relationship between recruiter and client.
As an influencer in your clients’ recruitment process, you play a major role in the success, or not, of their quest to access the right people for their business.
So, how can you use your responsibility to deliver a full spectrum of candidates to your clients (candidates who reflect their customer base) and perhaps even change some lives?
Using the JobAccess website and services is a great start and there are also some simple principles you can follow that will help to promote inclusion and access in the attraction and recruitment practices of your clients.
Helping them achieve their employment goals, of course, will form a more binding relationship between recruiter and client.
JobAccess streamlines access to services that will help your clients.
The first port of call for all information and advice is the brand new website. It’s been road tested with employers and people with disability – and has information tailored to its audiences. Just some of the things you can find include tools and resources to help recruit and retain people with disability.
JobAccess also has a team of employer engagement specialists – until recently called the National Disability Recruitment Coordinator. This team of people work with employers to advise them on ensuring employment practices and processes are inclusive and welcoming to all talent.
And JobAccess administers the Employment Assistance Fund on behalf of the Australian Government. Employers can access financial help to buy work related modifications that help them employ or retain a person with disability. The advisers at JobAccess can often support you with ideas that have no cost too – perhaps a different way of thinking about a certain job can help you recruit exactly the right person for your job.
So here are some ideas that the team at JobAccess supplied - straight from the recruitment practices of firms such as SEEK, Medibank, Deloitte, Qantas and many other major Australian employers that they have worked with.
Ensure job descriptions are written in plain English and are specific and concise. Employers are keen to accept applications from any candidates who are able to demonstrate a clear match with the selection criteria.
Focus on people’s abilities and skills and whether they are able to meet the ‘inherent requirements’ or required daily tasks of the role, rather than how the job is completed.
Understand that sometimes good candidates may need flexibility to be able to clearly demonstrate their skills and knowledge during the recruitment process and to be productive in the workplace.
Give candidates the opportunity to request support or reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process in order to demonstrate their ability to meet the inherent requirements of the job.
Make use of the tools and resources available to you – including JobAccess and EAF
So here are some ideas that the team at JobAccess supplied - straight from the recruitment practices of firms such as SEEK, Medibank, Deloitte, Qantas and many other major Australian employers that they have worked with.
Ensure job descriptions are written in plain English and are specific and concise. Employers are keen to accept applications from any candidates who are able to demonstrate a clear match with the selection criteria.
Focus on people’s abilities and skills and whether they are able to meet the ‘inherent requirements’ or required daily tasks of the role, rather than how the job is completed.
Understand that sometimes good candidates may need flexibility to be able to clearly demonstrate their skills and knowledge during the recruitment process and to be productive in the workplace.
Give candidates the opportunity to request support or reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process in order to demonstrate their ability to meet the inherent requirements of the job.
Make use of the tools and resources available to you – including JobAccess and EAF