The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has supports and services for people with disability.

They can also help you with ways to find and keep a job.

On this page:

• How the NDIS can support you to find and keep a job
• Getting support from the NDIS

The NDIS supports people with disability with ways to:

• find and keep a job
• build skills
• work well in their workplace. A workplace is any place you might work, such as an office, factory or shop.

The NDIS can support you to create work goals.

They can also give you information about how you can find work.

For example, through Disability Employment Services (DES). DES helps people with disability find and keep jobs. The Australian Government runs DES.

The NDIS can give you information about:

• programs in your community
• becoming a volunteer. When you are a volunteer, you work but you don’t get paid. Volunteers usually do work that helps other people. 

The NDIS can support you to:

• choose what training you might need
• build skills for keeping a job, like using public transport.

Your NDIS funding Funding is money from the government to pay for services and supports. might pay for you to:

• have support at work
• reach your work goals.

The NDIS also works with other organisations that can support you to:

• find and keep a job
• get the supports and services you need
• have a good experience.

For example, they can support you to move from NDIS supports to a service like the DES.

You need to be an NDIS participant NDIS participants are people with disability who take part in the NDIS. to get support through the NDIS.

If you’re an NDIS participant, you can talk about support to find a job from your NDIS contact, like a:

• NDIA planner
• Local Area Coordinator (LAC).

You can visit the page about Finding, keeping and changing a job on the NDIS website.

You can visit the NDIS website to find out if you can get support from the NDIS.

You can also call them.

1800 800 110

How Disability Employment Services can help

Training and support to develop your skills

How to find jobs