Vocational Rehabilitation Services

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Vocational Rehabilitation Services

Helping people with an injury, disability or
health condition, find and retain employment
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Disclaimer

• This information session relates to the Industry
  Alert for Vocational Rehabilitation Services
  Purchasing Arrangements.
• No reliance, for the purpose of tendering, should
  be placed upon any content of this information
  session or of the Industry Alert.
• The content of the final Requests for Tender,
  when released, will supersede all and any
  information and material provided both at this
  information session and in the Industry Alert.
• In conducting this information session the
  Commonwealth of Australia makes no
  representations or warranties of any kind, and
  accepts no liability whatsoever.

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Australian Government funded employment and
related services for people with a disability

• Job Network
• Vocational Rehabilitation Services
• Disability Employment Network
• Personal Support Programme

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Vocational Rehabilitation Services

• Provide a comprehensive services tailored to
  individual needs, combining
• specialist rehabilitation
• employment assistance

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Specialist rehabilitation

• Assists the job seeker
• understand and manage their injury, disability or
  health condition
• develop and/or adopt new work styles
• build work capacity
• avoid re-injury

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Employment assistance

• Assists the job seeker
• prepare for work
• work experience and training
• find work suitable to their capacity
• short term on-the-job support

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How do Vocational Rehabilitation Services differ
to Disability Employment Network?

• VRS programme focuses on assessment and building
  work capacity at the beginning of the programme
• Client base
• On the job support
• A VRS client must be assessed as being able to
  work independently in the workplace with less
  than six months support

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What a Vocational Rehabilitation Services
provider must do

• Meet the individual needs of the job seeker
• Develop and implement individual intervention
  plans
• Meet regularly with job seekers to manage
  requirements of their activity agreement
• Promote employment of people with a disability
• Work with the employer

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Australian Government funded Vocational
Rehabilitation Services

• Government commitment demonstrated by
• additional investment of 192 million over three
  years from 1 July 2006
• introduction of a new demand driven stream

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Vocational Rehabilitation Services

• assists people on income support who are unable
  to work at least 15 hours per week and have
  no requirement to look for work
• approximately 23 225 new clients each year
• assists people who have the capacity to work 15
  to 29 hours per week
• designed to assist an additional 36 600 people
  over the next three years

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Client Eligibility and Referral

• Part III Division 1 Disability Services Act 1986
• Referral through Job Capacity Assessment
• income support eligibility
• appropriate employment or related service
• appropriate stream

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Vocational Rehabilitation ServicesClient Group

• Mostly income support recipients
• Primary disability of all new job seekers
  referred in 2005-06
• physical 57.1 per cent
• psychiatric and mental health 30.2 per cent
• neurological and brain 5.5 per cent
• sensory and speech 3.1 per cent
• learning, intellectual and autism 2.4 per cent
• other/diverse 1.7 per cent
• Average age of job seekers referred is 30 to 59
  years
• 62.6 per cent male

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Performance Management Framework

• Performance based funding
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Star ratings that provide the basis for
  comparative performance management

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National Contract Management Framework

• Increasing performance
• Improving quality
• Integrity and Compliance
• Relationship and Openness
• Consistency

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Service Delivery Framework

• Compliance with the Disability Services
  Standards set out in the Disability Services
  Act 1986
• A Service Guarantee
• A Code of Practice

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New Providers

• Two year contracts from July 07-June 09
• 20 percent of income support recipients who
  cannot work at least 15 hours a week but choose
  to look for work
• up to 50 per cent of new demand driven stream
• expected to assist around 22 000 people

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Proposed Purchasing Timetable

• August Exposure Draft
• September Request for Tender
• November Tenders Close
• March 2007 Contracts Offered

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Contact Details

• Website
• Email
• Employment Services Enquiry
• Line

workplace.gov.au/ESPurchasing ESPurchasing_at_dewr.g
ov.au 1300 733 514