Employer Confidence Program
The Employer Confidence Program works with businesses to help them better understand the benefits of employing people with disability in the ACT and Queanbeyan in NSW.
The team will work with you to look at different job designs, consider any reasonable adjustments, strengthen recruitment practices and support with retention. Employing people with disability can help create a stronger workplace culture, widen the pool of skilled employees within your organisation.
Most workplaces already employ people with disability, but many don’t know it. Having a workplace where people feel valued and is inclusive, is just good business
With employer confidence, your workplace will thrive.
Join the movement that’s helping employers see strength first.
To find out more about our Employer Confidence Program work, read our report here.
Join the movement that’s helping employers see strength first.
One in five Australians of working age identify as people with disability. Yet employment rates remain unequal — only 48% of people with disability are employed, compared with 80% of people without disability.
When workplaces remove barriers and offer genuine inclusion, people with disability thrive — contributing strong retention, fewer unplanned absences, diverse perspectives, and collaborative, creative problem-solving.
We can support you to build a genuinely inclusive workplace.
Our goal is to expand and strengthen employment opportunities for people with disability and people experiencing mental ill-health. We work alongside employers to build confidence, grow practical skills, and address myths and assumptions that can create unnecessary barriers. By increasing employers’ understanding, we help organisations recognise the value and strengths that disabled people bring to their workforce.
We offer support across the employee lifecycle, including:
- Attraction and recruitment strategies
- Becoming an employer of choice for people with disability
- Developing inclusive position descriptions and job ads
- Reaching a broad and diverse pool of candidates
- Using case studies and inclusive, strengths-based language
- Being an appealing employer
- Writing position descriptions and job ads
- Reaching the right candidates
- Using case studies and inclusive language
- Enabling all great candidates to apply
- Organising accessible interviews
- Understanding new starter requirements
- Assessing the cultural fit
- Building an inclusive culture
- Training and professional development
- Disability – confident managers
- Clear pathways to seek support
- Workplace accommodations or modifications
- Maintaining an inclusive culture
- Managing new or changing needs
- Performance management
- Rewards and recognition
- Measuring success
We work with employers and their staff to create inclusive workplaces focusing on a person’s abilities and potential, identifying any barriers or modifications required to help people with a disability to be successful in their employment.
Don’t know where to start?
We can help you build your confidence to hire, support and retain employees with disability and mental ill health and create a truly inclusive workplace. Connect with our team today.
