Intellectual Disability and Learning Disability Specialists
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Our job seekers
Connect2Employment offers professional, structured and personalized support to people living with a disability to find and maintain work in their local community.
Our service is free and confidential.
What you can expect from our professional consultants:
* A thorough review of your skills and career goals to match you with the best possible job
* One - on - one support
* Ongoing support when you commence a job
* Proactive approach to finding work for you
* A detailed program based on your needs and requirements to help you get the job you want
* Job searching for you and with you
* Interview preparation
* Availability - we will be there when you need us
* On the job training
* Business contacts
* Referrals to support organizations as needed
* Workplace Modifications*
* Training opportunities
What we can provide:
* Personalized program based on your career goals
* Stand out Resumes
* Training
* Job search resources
Our employers
Free Service
We offer a free recruitment, training and support service. Our Organization is fully funded by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, which means there are no commissions, no membership fees and no sign up costs.
Workplace Modifications
As with many of us, we like certain things that make doing our day to day job easier. Should workplace modifications or adaptive equipment be required, Connect2Employment will cover the cost of this.
Tailored Services
Having an employer who trusts that they can call us when they need staff is our biggest compliment. By getting to know your business we find the right employee for the job. Our qualified training staff will coach the employee in the way you conduct your business and offer ongoing support and maintain regular contact, to ensure everyone's needs are being met.
Employer Support
Connect2Employment will assess your workplace and search out suitable candidates. Work experience can be arranged to ensure a perfect fit for both you and the prospective employee. A free service and 100% satisfaction. If you are not happy with any condition of the arrangement, we will fix it for you.
Motivated Employees
Our job seekers have directions and focus, which makes them a motivated potential employee. Dedicated and enthusiastic to the job at hand. With some training in the role you need to fill, we are confident they will soon become your best employee.
Flexible Services
Connect2Employment will be available when you need us, not just during office hours. We will be there throughout the employment period. If required, we will retrain the employee to a level that is acceptable to you, as we strive to achieve long term employment outcomes.
Our networks
Queensland Health
Redland Special School
Darling Point Special School
Chamber of Commerce
Commerce Queensland
Redlands Women in Business
Disability Services Qld
Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research
Bayside Initiative Group
National Disability Services Member
NESA
STEPS Training
National Disability Insurance Scheme
Our performance
Connect2Employment have been successful in the latest DES/ESS Tender, having been awarded the only Intellectual and Learning Disability Specialist business in SEQ.
Having operated since 1993, we have highly skilled and trained staff who specialize in assisting clients in this cohort to gain and maintain meaningful employment.
Working closely with the Indigenous jobseekers on the Bay Islands Connect2Group have successfully assisted numerous job seekers to gain meaningful employment, and have forged strong ties with the Islands and their businessess.
Connect2Group currently supports 37% of the current participants with ID or Learning disability in South Brisbane ESA.
Having operated a School to Work Transition program since 1996 we currently have 54 registrants with Intellectual or Learning disabilities. Of these, 33 are currently employed for an average of 138 weeks, and 19 have been employed for more than 12 months.
Connect2Group will continue to use this model of support to increase participant numbers and outcomes for SB ESA.
62% of participants with Intellectual or learning disabilities have accessed our Service via direct registration.
About us
Connect2Group is a not-for-profit organization providing whole of life (work, home and play) community connectedness and development of people with disabilities. Because we are not-for-profit we use all our funds to support people with disability.
Our Organization has been assisting people with a disability since 1993, and overall, our staff retention is high, with long tenure.
Conenct2Employment has been awarded the Intellectual and Learning Disability Specialist Tender in SEQ, and have experience in placing this cohort of clients into long term sustainable and meaningful jobs.
We have Memorandums of Understanding with Qld Health to provide employment specialists co located within the Mental Health Teams to provide tailored support to job seekers with a psychiatric illness. These teams include: Redlands and Wynnum Hospitals, Goodna Mental Health, PA Hospital, Inala Mental Health, Ipswich Mental Health, and West Moreton Centre for Mental Health.
We have Memorandums of Understandings with local schools to provide students support to access work experience placements so they can sample different job roles.
We employ Indigenous Liaison Officers to ensure we provide appropriate support to our Indigenous participants.
Our staff are highly skilled and trained in a wide variety of discliplines, and come from diverse backgrounds, to ensure we can appropriately assist people from different cultures and who have specific needs.
Our Values:
Client Involvement and Empowerment
Rights, not Charity
Empathetic, not Sympathetic
Mutual Respect
Mutually Beneficial Relationships Within the Community
Professional Relationships
Tailored Services
Friendly Environment
Genuine Commitment
Considered Planning
