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Disability Employment Network
What is the Disability
Employment Network (DEN)?
•Specialist employment assistance in the
open labour market
•Range of supports to meet individual need:
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Specific job skills
Job search support
On the job support
Vocational training
Help for employers if needed
•Intermittent Support
•Employment in Jeopardy
DEN Capped
•Assessed future work capacity of eight or more
hours per week
•Require ongoing support to find and retain
work and / or are unable to work at full wages
DEN Uncapped
•Demand driven
•Guaranteed assistance for people with disability
who have to look for work to meet participation
requirements
•Up to two years of employment assistance to
job seekers with disability with an assessed
future work capacity of 15 hours or more per
week at full wages
What type of job search can a
DEN assist with?
•A range of job search and training options for
people with disability
•Apprenticeships
•Productivity Places Program
Additional assistance
•Workplace Modifications Scheme
•Supported Wage System
•Wage Subsidy Scheme
•Auslan for Employment Program
What outcomes can be achieved
in DEN?
•Employment outcomes in the Capped and
Uncapped programs
•4, 13 and 26 week outcomes
•Capped program – Maintenance phase
•Uncapped program – Post placement support
How to access DEN
• Usually through a Job Capacity Assessment
(JCA)
•Based on eligibility criteria
•Referral to Capped or Uncapped stream
What documentation is needed
to access DEN?
•DEN providers will let people know what they
need
•Most people will have a JCA referral
•Direct registrations will need proof of identity
How can ‘school leavers’ access
DEN?
A school leaver is defined as:
•Capacity to work 8 hours or more per week with intervention
•Legal work age and working less than 8 hours per week; or
•In the last 6 months of school and considering post-school
employment options; or
•Full time student in a school-based apprenticeship
•Do not need to be attending a special school
•No JCA referral needed but a CRN is required
•Eligible for DEN Capped only
What is the difference between
DEN, VRS and Job Network?
•Vocational Rehabilitation Services
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Injury, disability or health condition
Rehabilitation, intervention and specialist employment
assistance
Injury management
•Job Network
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Job seekers have less barriers to employment
Personalised assistance through job search and employment
focused activities
Increased workforce participation
Job Services Australia
•Commencing nationally on 1 July
•Training, skills development and work
experience
•Focus on training in skills shortage areas
•Sustainable employment outcomes for job
seekers
The new Disability Employment
Services
•Release of the Exposure Draft on 20 May 2009
•2 distinct, demand-driven programs
•Program A
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Not expected to require ongoing support in the workplace
•Program B
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Permanent disability and assessed need for long term
support in the workplace
Key features of the new model
•Eighteen months of tailored assistance
•Stronger outcome focus
•Flexible options for ongoing support
•Simplified fee structure
•Red tape reduction
•Employment Assistance Fund
•Ongoing support assessments
•Increased funding for remote services
Key changes to the new services
•Direct registration for school leavers to improve
school to work transition
•Employment outcomes includes employment
with multiple employers over a 26 week period
•Increasing job placement fees from two to four
for up to two years
Useful Links
•www.workplace.gov.au
•www.jobaccess.gov.au
•www.deewr.gov.au