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Helping someone return to work starts with looking after their physical, mental and emotional health. People recover at different speeds, so support needs to…
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Good return to work outcomes happen when everyone works together: the worker, employer, healthcare team and support services.
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Focus on building trust between employer and employment service provider as a foundation for an effective and long term relationship.
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Providing support to workers returning to work after injury or illness increases positive employment outcomes.
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Build employer capability to use inclusive recruitment and induction approaches.
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Develop effective, respectful, and trustworthy relationships between employers, employment service providers, and jobseekers with disability, built on mutual…
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The charitable model portrays people with disability as needing ‘care’. Advances in medicine saw a shift towards the medical model which focuses on ‘curing’ or…
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This model focuses on how the broader environment such as attitudes, systems and inaccessible spaces in the built environment ‘disables’ people with…
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People who are deaf or hard of hearing will have different needs in the workplace. They may require tailored supports and adjustments so that they can thrive…
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People with intellectual disability want to work but often face significant barriers to employment. Employing people with intellectual disability requires…
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People with cognitive and intellectual disability are ready, willing and able to work. With the right supports and flexibility, they can bring many benefits to…
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Autistic people can bring many strengths to a workplace, but they may also face significant barriers to employment. Understanding the way in which autism…
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The human rights approach to disability recognises that all people, regardless of disability, have the right to work and that adaptations and supports should…
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This model of disability considers how biological, psychological and social factors interact to create disability.
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Having a job is strongly associated with positive mental health and wellbeing. Employment can help prevent mental health challenges and can also promote…
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Once any barriers to employment and conditions for success are identified, the person should be connected to services that meet their needs. Evidence shows…
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A person with physical disability has a physical impairment that affects how their body works.
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Family, friends and paid support workers can be powerful allies, helping the person grow skills, gain confidence and achieve success when their support is…
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The person with disability is an expert on their disability and the supports and adjustments that will help them to do their job safely and effectively. The…
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Putting the right supports in place before job searching begins will help to create the conditions for successful job placement.
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Not everyone with disability needs a workplace adjustment to do their job well. When adjustments are needed, they are often at low or no cost to the employer…
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Sharing information about disability can benefit everyone when handled with respect across all phases of the employment journey: people with disability feel…
Understanding disability
Understand what creates barriers to employment for people with disability – at both an individual and broader societal level – so that strategies can be put in…
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Zero exclusion means that employment services should support all people who want to work to overcome any barriers they might face and focus on finding jobs…
Understanding disability
People with disability are not all the same. Like all people, they have many identities related to culture, religion, gender and various life experiences…