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Who can help us to recruit and support people with disability?

There are a number of organisations that can assist APS agencies to recruit and support people with disability.

JobAccess⁴⁴ is a free, confidential service that can help you through all stages of the employment process. The JobAccess Advisers can advise you about the full range of government programmes and services available and have particular expertise in workplace modifications and adjustments.

There are also many employment support organisations that can provide assistance. Funded under the Disability Services Act, these agencies tend to operate in three different spheres, with their client base reflecting different degrees of severity of disability.

Unemployed people with disability are likely to be found registered with one of three different types of employment support agency:

Job Network agencies provide a wide range of people seeking employment, including those with disability that do not require ongoing support or rehabilitation, with job matching services against advertised vacancies.
APS agencies can advertise vacancies with Job Network agencies by posting those vacancies on the Government’s JobSearch website.⁴⁵Some Job Network agencies specialise in finding employment for people with disability. These agencies can be located through the JobSearch website.⁴⁶
Vocational Rehabilitation Services, such as CRS Australia,⁴⁷ help people with an injury or disability to manage their health condition, develop job skills and get a job. Post placement support is provided for six months after placement in employment. Services, including job matching and post placement support, are tailored to the individual job seeker's needs.
Disability Employment Network agencies specialise in helping people with disability to find work in the open labour market. They provide both pre-employment and ongoing post-placement support, typically to people with mild to moderate disability.

Each of these networks has its own ‘database’ of clients, and each is accessible by APS agencies that choose to use them. In almost all cases these services are provided to employers at no cost.

Vacancies can also be advertised nationally through the Disability Employment Network, and with Vocational Rehabilitation Services, by providing details to the National Disability Recruitment Co-ordinator (NDRC).⁴⁸ Vacancies notified to the NDRC will be referred throughout the network across Australia.

Many of these agencies are also able to work closely with APS agencies to develop in partnership with them specific strategies such as work trials to support the employment of people with disability, provide advice on modifications to the workplace, and even provide advice on modifying selection processes to make them more accessible to people with disability.

Contact details for agencies in different parts of Australia are also available from JobSearch.⁴⁹

44 http://www.jobaccess.gov.au/joac/home

45 https://jobsearch.gov.au/Login/Login.aspx?WHCode=0

46 http://jobsearch.gov.au/public/providers/jnss/

47 http://www.crsaustralia.gov.au/

48 http://www.jobaccess.gov.au/JOAC/Employers/Getting+advice+and+support/NDRC.htm

49 http://jobsearch.gov.au/public/providers/generic/default.aspx?provider=DOE

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