This support is designed to provide workplace assessment or counselling to assist participants successfully engage in employment. (Note: if a participant is employed and on award wages, then in most instances a work place assessment is available through the Employment Assistance Fund administered by JobAccess and is a free service to employers.) For employment related counselling, this support may benefit participants who have, for example, experienced traumatic injury and need significant support (over and above a mainstream employment related service) to develop a new work pathway.

This support item provides workplace assistance that enables a participant to successfully obtain or retain employment in the open or supported labour market. This support can be supplied to any working age participant (including students reaching working age) with an employment goal. This may include supports to:

• explore what work would mean for them (discovery);
• build essential foundation skills for work;
• managing complex barriers to obtaining and sustaining employment;
• specialised job customisation;
• supports to transition from an Australian Disability Enterprise (ADE) to open employment;
• develop a career plan; and
• other capacity building supports that are likely to lead to successful engagement in a Disability Employment Service (DES).

Note: this support item cannot be used to fund a Certified education course (for example, Certificate I in Workplace Education), even if run within the provider’s services, as this would be funded through the Vocational Education system.

This support item can be delivered to individual participants or groups of participants subject to the rules set out in this Price Guide. If a support item is delivered to a group of participants then the price limit for each participant is the price limit set out in the table below divided by the number of participants in the group. Providers should make a claim for each participant using the relevant support item.

School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES) are capacity building supports for students transitioning from school to employment. They are available during the final months at school and continue post school exit. These supports are designed to plan and implement a pathway to inclusive employment, focussing on capacity building for goal achievement. With appropriate supports, it is expected that the majority of SLES participants will transition to the Disability Employment Service (DES) to undertake the job seeking, placement and post placement support phases of their pathway. These supports will have an individualised approach, with a strong emphasis on “try and test” work experience opportunities, (generally in work places that would pay award wages). Capacity building should focus on hard and soft skill development. Supports, more generally, should facilitate positive experiences that contribute to developing an understanding of work capability and confidence to step into employment. SLES should also help inform the level and nature of future supports needed to obtain and sustain employment.

• Specialised Supported Employment

  • These support items are duplicates of the Specialised Supported Employment support on page 63. They are temporarily duplicated in this support category to facilitate access to the new arrangements.

    These support items can be delivered to individual participants or to groups of participants subject to the rules set out in this Price Guide. If a support item is delivered to a group of participants then the price limit for each participant is the price limit set out in the table below divided by the number of participants in the group. Providers should make a claim for each participant using the relevant support item.