Transcript Working With Parents - Disability Employment Australia

ROLE
OF
JOB COACH
WHAT IS AN EMPLOYMENT
SPECIALIST OR JOB COACH
A JOB COACH CAN BE DEFINED AS:
“…. a professional or possibly
paraprofessional who provides
individualised one-to-one assistance
to the client in job placement, travel training,
skill training at the job site, ongoing
assessment and long-term assessment;……
contd..
(Wehman & Melia, 1986)
WHAT IS AN EMPLOYMENT
SPECIALIST OR JOB COACH?
contd…
A JOB COACH CAN BE DEFINED AS:
….the job coach is expected to reduce his or
her presence at the job site over time as the
client becomes better adjusted and more
independent at the job.”
JOB COACH FUNCTIONS
1
Job Finder
Market Screening
Initial Contact with Potential Employers
Interview with Employer
JOB COACH FUNCTIONS
1
contd..
Identify Job (s)
: Job Re-design
: Task Restructuring
Environment Analysis
: Potential for Integration
Negotiate Job
JOB COACH FUNCTIONS
2
TASK RELATED:
Systematic Teaching - Developing Competence
Ensuring The Job Is Done
JOB COACH FUNCTIONS
2
contd…
NON-TASK RELATED:
Ensuring that the Supported Employee gets the
same pay as others for the same job.
Ensuring Opportunities for Social Integration on
the Job
Ensuring The Development of Social Competency
Advocacy
WHAT IS A GOOD JOB MATCH
• Successful employment may depend on
• the match between people and their
environments than on the personal characteristics
of individuals.
(BERKSON & ROMER, 1980)
• The goal of job placement and maintenance is to
maximise the fit or congruence. Congruence
occurs when the individual’s behaviour is in
harmony with the expectations of the
environment.
WHAT IS A GOOD JOB MATCH
contd..
• A job match is the relationship and interdependence
between the physical, social and organisational
ecologies of a work place.
(Chadsey-Rush & Rush 1988)
• A job match is comparison of a person’s
behavioural capabilities and the performance
requirements of the job including the identification
of important mismatches
(Schalock & Jensen, 1986)
MYTHS ABOUT JOB MATCHING
• A willing employer is always an appropriate
employer.
• Hurry, before we lose the job ! ! !
• All we need to check for is transportation and
family support.
• If the pay and the hour fit……TAKE IT !
• All you really need is one of “those” forms.
INDIVIDUALISATION
BE AS FLEXIBLE AS EACH PERSON WITH A
DISABILITY AND EACH WORKSITE NEEDS

TRAINING METHOD

CHOICES

METHODS OF RECORDING
INDIVIDUALISATION
contd..
GIVE AS MUCH SUPPORT AS NEEDED
AND AS LITTLE SUPPORT AS NEEDED
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Dependence
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Placement Breakdown