Impact Make Your Mark

Supporting job seekers with disability who require on-the-job support, for as long as required. Support is provided within the workplace to the job seeker, employer and other workers to maintain the position into the long term.

There are many advantages to employing a person with disability...

Reliability

Overall, employees with a disability rate better than other employees for reliability factors, with lower levels of absenteeism and sick leave.

Lower Ongoing Costs

Employees with disability rate  better on average than their colleagues for ‘employee maintenance factors’, such as:

• Fewer accidents at work and lower recorded workers’ compensation incidents than other employees.
• An annual retention rate that is 72% higher than people without disabilities.
• Lower recruitment costs – hiring people with disabilities can be significantly less costly than hiring other employees.

Productivity and loyalty

People with a disability:

• Have productivity comparable to other employees; and
• Demonstrate high levels of loyalty through excellent retention rates.

Employing people with disability

• Assists with staff morale and team development
• Heightens management awareness of workplace practices and conditions for all staff members;
• Increases customer and staff loyalty to the organisation.

Money

While it is the right of all Australian workers to receive award based wages, it may happen that the new employee cannot meet the work standard required.

IMPACT Make Your Mark staff will assist you, the employer, to access a productivity based wage assessment tool through the ‘Supported Wage System’ and where   appropriate, a wage subsidy may be  available for a period of time.

Service Guarantee

IMPACT staff will continue to provide on-the-job support, ongoing evaluations and assessments of progress and performance for as long  as required.

Should problems arise, IMPACT staff will assist in addressing these and will work towards a mutually agreeable resolution.

IMPACT ensures that our clients’ legal and human rights are upheld in line with the Disability Services Act through the implementation of the  Disability Service Standards.

When next employing new staff, should you consider employing a person with a disability, call IMPACT Disability Employment Services and let us do the hard work for you.

Extra Benefit

To lessen the impact on your business and reduce the time that would be taken if another employee was called upon to train a new employee, IMPACT Employment Advisors provide on-the-job support and training.