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Hi everybody and welcome to this little video
to tell you about DES Essentials,
a fantastic and comprehensive induction package that we've put together here at Disability Employment Australia
to support capability development out there in the disability employment sector.
DES Essentials as a comprehensive induction package focuses on three key things:
that's Attitudes, Knowledge and Skills.
When we talk about attitudes we're talking about embracing disability employment values
So we know the attitudes of practitioners do affect their motivations to achieve results
we know that those who embrace values that put the aspirations of clients first,
that value a person's right to make choices, and we know when people are committed to those values
and attitudes that they're more successful in disability employment.
When we talk about knowledge, we're talking about the essential facts, terminologies and theories
that are essential to working with Disability Employment Services. When we talk about knowledge,
we're actually talking about the contract that we work under with the department of employment
and the different aspects of that program and that contract.
That includes things like the STAR ratings, the performance framework and the quality framework.
When we talk about skills, we're talking about over 45 activities that help practitioners
hone their ability to help people to choose, get and keep employment.
DES Essentials has absolutely everything that you could need; it has workbooks,
comprehensive workbooks at a foundation level, it has advanced-level facilitators' guides
and it includes model answers, so you can pick it up and go.
It has PowerPoint stacks, and those PowerPoint stacks are very comprehensive
and they're designed for you to modify them
and tailor them to your organisation. We have evaluation tools and most importantly we also
train your trainers. DES Essentials is very, very easy to use, with the facilitator guides
and the workbooks. It is unique, and it is very comprehensive. It has seven learning modules,
with over 43 activities and over 320 pages of content.
So, why reinvent the wheel? You can pick and mix from whatever work books and activities, whatever
suits your organisation.
DES Essentials has seven modules:
Disability in Australian Society, Disability Employment Services in Australia,
The Disability Service Standards, Finding Employment,
Sustaining Employment, the Role of Practitioners, as well as a module on the DES Deed.
I'll tell you a little bit about them. Disability in Australia society takes a look at
'What is disability?', the construction of disability over time, different models of disability,
and most importantly it focuses on the experiences of people with disability in Australia.
From being segregated and shut out to where we are today,
with the United Nations Convention, as well as the National Disability Strategy and the
National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The second module is Disability Employment Services in Australia, and this really gives you the
historical context behind the program. It looks at the evolution of DES, and gives you some
demographics. And it pays particular attention to the DES model in 2013 - it has a rather broad focus.
We have a very important module on the Disability Service Standards, and that module helps people to understand how the service standards impact their role
and how they deliver services to people, how they align with the Deed and the Contract, and some of
the evidentiary requirements as well.
We then move into a module called 'Finding Employment,' which is very, very important when we're working
in Employment Services. It's how do we engage with the participant, how we do facilitate and coordinate the
appropriate assessments (we don't have to do everything in employment services), how do we determine
suitable job-match strategies and how do we implement them, as well.
And then most importantly, how do we go from engaging a participant to marketing a job candidate? Which is
exactly what employers look for: they look for candidates, they don't look for 'seekers', they look for candidates.
We then move into Sustaining Employment, which is really what Disability Employment Services are all about
For many, it's about long-term support in the workplace. It's around understanding employer's needs
and effectively meeting them, or addressing them.
It's about helping an employer to understand their responsibilities and to help them meet them as well.
It's about partnerships and promoting Disability Employment Services. We take a risk-management approach
to post-placement support and ongoing support, and most importantly we look at pro-active strategies
to really address the client's needs while they're in work.
We then move into a module called 'The Role of Employment Practitioners.' This module has some
key essentials, it's a big module, it's got lots of activities, this one's awesome. They're all great, I don't want
to choose favourites, but this one has a lot in it. It's about developing trust and rapport
understanding boundaries, adopting a strengths-based approach to working with people,
knowing employers and knowing their business and ensuring your language and your communication lets
an employer know that you know.
It's providing pro-active support it's about building your own knowledge, your own attitudes and skills
it's around using community supports, so not doing everything, it's about knowing what's out there,
and it's about facilitation and coordination.
The last module is around the Disability Employment Services Deed. So that looks at working in a legal
and an ethical framework. It looks at performance, STAR ratings,
very important, it looks at documentary evidence, and it looks at the quality framework.
I think one of the most endearing features around DES Essentials is you can shape your own program, it's really really comprehensive.
So, Disability and Australian Society is about 60 pages
and six learning activities, Disability Service Standards is three activities, thirty pages
there are ten activities in The Role of Practitioners, seven in the DES Deed, eight in Finding Employment and
six in sustaining employment. So for a trainer,
it's everything you need, it's a wealth of information and activities, and the facilitators guide has different
ways of running activities as well. So it's not like everything is individual
or everything is group work, we actually give some different ways of running the same activity
with different audiences.
And, as I said before, it includes some model answers to help you tease out the right sorts of responses -
although we're not saying they're the right or wrong answers - they're 'model' answers.
Now, we are training trainers - we're doing this throughout June.
On June the fourth, in Melbourne, on June the sixth in Adelaide,
On June the thirteenth in Brisbane, and we will announce a session in Perth very soon.
To register, you can head over to our website, which is
disabilityemployment.org.au
On the homepage, there's a little banner which says 'DES Essentials,' and you just click on that and it will take you straight through.
You can register to attend, and also that's what you need to do if you wish to purchase DES Essentials as well.
If you don't want to come to a public workshop, you can have one delivered in-house; we will tailor that to your organisation
we need a little bit more notice and leading time to be able to do that, but we are more than happy to.
We are asking you, the industry, to partner with us, around DES Essentials.
And we're asking you to do that because we want this information to be out there with as many providers as possible
This is what works, in Disability Employment. If you purchase DES Essentials, you get a free annual update
of the content, and that's an ongoing thing.
They're sort of small updates, so terminology changes, fact changes, you can expect to get a free update to the
Disability Service Standards module as the new service standards are introduced very soon.
But there will also be the opportunity to invest in DES Essentials, and to invest in future learning modules, and to
invest in future case studies as well. So when we have a big, big overhaul, there will be a bit of an investment
that will be asked of the sector.
What's on the horizon? As I've said, Disability Service Standards,
we're also looking at a file notes module for DES Essentials. What's the investment?
What's it going to cost us? For members it's under $2000
it's $1995, for non-members it's under $3000, it's $2995. Whenever you purchase DES Essentials
that includes one registrant at Train the Trainer.
If you want to send more than one trainer - we'd highly recommend you send two, or three or four if you're a really large organisation -
it's an extra $350 per person. That's just to help us to recoup the costs of running those sessions.
If you're interested, you can take a look at http://bit.ly/DESEssentials
Which is Bitly, forward slash DESEssentials, for further information.
We really look forward to hearing from you, I'm just wanting to say thanks for listening, thanks for watching,
I hope to see you soon as we talk about DES Essentials. Thank you and goodbye.