Innovative Employment Advisor

Job Type:

• Full-time/ Permanent
  
• Salary: Competitive, based on Schads Award
  
• Level 3.1: $36 / hour.
  
• Valued Lives – Making a Difference in Disability Support
  

Are you passionate about empowering individuals with disabilities to establish and grow their own Microenterprise?

Valued Lives is innovative, passionate and peer led – designed by and for people with disability. Join us!

Why work for Valued Lives?

• Achieve a Healthy work life balance, including flexible working arrangement.
• Receive an additional paid day off for your birthday.
• Enjoy competitive remuneration including salary packaging (Including Mortgage, Car, and Meals Entertainment.
• Embrace opportunities for learning and development.
• Thrive in a dedicated and supportive team environment.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (Relationship Australia).

Our vision is people living their best life as valued citizens.

• We are peer-led: We support people to be the authors of their own lives, and to have choice and control of their own supports and services.
• We foster community: We partner with individuals and their families to enable inclusion and valued roles in work, home and community.
• We value people: Our team are our most valuable asset. Our workplace is supportive, respectful, and inclusive, with opportunities to grow.

About you

• You are responsive: You react with positivity and accountability, pursuing and upholding excellence.
• You are driven: You work well independently and as part of a team, motivated by your conviction and compassion.
• You are inclusive: You challenge the status quo and thrive on the uniqueness of people.

About the role

As an Innovative Employment Advisor, you will be responsible for coaching and advising Microenterprise individuals as they develop their Microenterprise.

Utilising a customised employment approach, Innovative Employment Advisors will be responsible for guiding and supporting individuals through a journey of discovery, business planning, business plan implementation and launch.

Each Microenterprise individual is unique and as such, the support they require from the team will vary. It is the responsibility of the Innovative Employment Advisor to support Microenterprise individuals as required, in a responsive and solution orientated way. This will include managing teams of business assistants, engaging with internal and external stakeholders, navigation of government systems, creation and delivery of workshops, and facilitation of employment-based peer support groups.

Key responsibilities

• Mentor individuals on their customised employment journey, including coordination and facilitation for individuals, their families, and their supports through:
  
  • Discovery
    
  • Business Planning
    
  • Business Plan Implementation
    
  • Microenterprise launch
    
  • Management and supervision of teams.
• Provide individualised, innovative, and bespoke options for Microenterprise individuals.
• Accurate recording, development and maintenance of individual records, including discovery, interactions and reporting to the NDIS through provision of ‘Finding and Keeping a Job’ reports.
• Negotiation of Valued Lives services with Microenterprise individuals through the development of Service Agreements and service schedules.
• Development of workshops and events in response to emerging need (in collaboration with social media, events, and communications).
• Identify opportunities for improvement of project systems, processes, and procedures, and work collaboratively to implement changes.
• Management, supervision and direction of Business Assistants and Support Workers as they implement discovery strategies, and support Microenterprise owners to implement their business plans.

Skills and experience

Essential

• Demonstrated interpersonal communication skills including relationship building, advocacy, negotiation and conflict resolution.
• Highly developed written communication and literacy skills including reporting and budget monitoring.
• Experience working with people with disability, their families and carers in the provision of strengths based, person-centred and relationship-based supports and services.
• Ability to recruit and support a team of business assistants/workers in various locations.
• Experience in NDIS compliance and quality monitoring.
• Experience implementing and monitoring government funding for the delivery of supports and services.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, systems and databases.

Desirable

• Lived experience, self, family or close associate with disability.
• Certificate IV in Disability or Diploma in Community Services, or above.
• Experience developing and implementing rosters of support.
• Experience in customised employment.
• Experience in small business.

Appointment pre-requisites

• NDIS Worker Screening Check
• NDIS Worker Module Training Certificate
• NDIS Worker Orientation Module
• Working With Children Check
• Proof of valid work rights in Australia
• Current WA Driver’s Licence
• Motor Vehicle Registration

How to apply

Please submit a cover letter and resumé outlining your suitability for the role.

If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the role, please contact Ben Larcombe, [email protected], using the subject line: Innovative Employment Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs, or call 08 9274 7760.

We look forward to receiving your application!