Employment
Windarring offers specialist employment options for people with disability in Bendigo, Castlemaine, Gisborne and Kyneton. We have a breadth of qualified disability support workers who provide assistance to people with disability to undertake their employment. This includes supervision of tasks and teaching new skills to allow everyone to perform their required duties. We can also assist with those interested in transitioning into open employment, by assisting with resuming writing, preparing for interviews and other job preparation trainings.
What is Customised Employment?
Customised Employment is an individualised approach to vocational supports and services: one person at a time. The goal of Customised Employment is to tailor jobs to fit the skills, interests, strengths, and support needs of the individual, whilst meeting the needs of the business.
It can sometimes be challenging for people with disability to find employment in the open market, and mainstream job services such as Disability Employment Services’ and ‘Australian Disability Enterprises’ don’t always provide an appropriate option. Often people with disability who want to work are missing out because they don’t necessarily tick all of the boxes required to fulfil a traditional job role.
That’s why we offer customised employment exploration and transition services, which are designed to support people to discover their own unique skills and talents, and harness those talents to identify and create a job role or small business that is tailored specifically to them.
What is Customised Employment?
Customised Employment is an individualised approach to vocational supports and services: one person at a time. The goal of Customised Employment is to tailor jobs to fit the skills, interests, strengths, and support needs of the individual, whilst meeting the needs of the business.
It can sometimes be challenging for people with disability to find employment in the open market, and mainstream job services such as Disability Employment Services’ and ‘Australian Disability Enterprises’ don’t always provide an appropriate option. Often people with disability who want to work are missing out because they don’t necessarily tick all of the boxes required to fulfil a traditional job role.
That’s why we offer customised employment exploration and transition services, which are designed to support people to discover their own unique skills and talents, and harness those talents to identify and create a job role or small business that is tailored specifically to them.
Employment options at Windarring
- Supported Employment at our (ADE) Australian Disability Enterprise centres at the Kyneton Copy Centre, Bendigo Recycling and Windarring Recycled Store in Castlemaine and Emporiums at Bendigo and Castlemaine.
- Supported employment options within the community – we can provide customised Employment and Job Coaching options, to suit individual support needs.
- Community volunteering – Gain support to access work across central Victoria.
- Vocational training
- Vocational placements/Work Experience, with local business hosts – We can provide one on one support to achieve great outcomes.
- Various accredited and pre-accredited course options individualised training and skill development.
- Linkage to Disability Employment Support services (DES) and exploration of mainstream ‘Open’ employment
Job carving (Job creation)
Job carving is an approach that utilises the negotiation of a specific job designed to suit a person with a disability. The job design can include components of a number of duty statements and be selected according to the interests, skills and abilities of the person.
This can benefit both the organisation/business and the individual by aligning the strengths of the individual with the needs of the organisation. It requires providers to assist employers to undertake this process and work with them to match the employer’s needs and a job design that maximises the skills and abilities of the job seeker with a disability.
Open Employment
- Creating a unique employment plan specific to the person
- Identifying employment goals and pathways
- Building workplace skills such as time management problem solving and positive communication
- Travel training
- Preparation for interviews
- Learning your rights as an employee
- And more!