NDIS Employment Coach
Full time position
Marion and/or Service Delivery Sites across Adelaide South
Are you keen to work within a role that:
* Provides services that support NDIS Participants build capacity and achieve their employment related goals
* Plays an important role in a well-established and progressive Organisation
* Is included in a diverse and supportive team culture
* Plays a part in making change to people's lives and engage with the community?
The Role:
We are currently growing our support to people in the community within the NDIS space, and are keen to appoint an NDIS Employment Coach based in Marion.This role will require the candidate to work across our Adelaide South sites and within the community to support participants in progressing toward and achieving their employment-related goals. The successful candidate will deliver services on behalf of the Organisation's NDIS funded employment services – these services include School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES), and Finding and Keeping a Job. A fundamental part of the role as NDIS Employment Coach will be supporting and mentoring NDIS Participants to overcome their barriers and build capacity that assists them on their pathway to further education or employment by developing and implementing individualised plans. As an NDIS Employment Coach, you will also be expected to collaborate closely with our Work Force Connect brand at expos and other business development initiatives to promote and support the organisation's needs.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:
* Knowledge and experience delivering person-centered supports
* A professional, outcome-focused approach to supporting NDIS Participant plans and building capacity to gain and maintain education and employment
* Working knowledge of the NDIS Practice Standards
* Highly developed time management, organisational skills along with advanced communication skills (written and verbal)
* Ability to provide support services both over the phone and face to face
* Ability to travel across sites
* Demonstrated ability to meet compliance requirements and maintain professional boundaries regarding participant and family/career expectations
* Experience working with disadvantaged people within the community who may have disabilities, are young, and/or may be people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in their employment related goals
* Strong computer skills in using Microsoft Office, Outlook, internet, and database systems
* Build on current advanced communication, interpersonal, collaboration and negotiation skills
* A current drivers license (essential) and own transport
What We Offer:
* Work Monday to Friday with weekends and Public Holidays off
* Eighty9 Limited (ABN / ACN is a Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG) and, as the parent entity of Eighty9 Limited we are able to offer our employees salary sacrificing benefits, including Fringe Benefit Tax exempt payments of up to $15,900 per annum (Full-Time and Part-Time positions only)
* Access to Employee Assistance Program
* Competitive above award hourly rates
* A two week induction is provided, along with further training
About Us:
For more than 35 years, Eighty9 Limited has been a successful not for profit Organisation with its roots firmly established in South Australia and Western Australia. We have a long history of supporting disadvantaged people, including youth throughout the communities in which we work. We are very fortunate that our employees who bring their skills and expertise, also collectively share unity and purpose.
Our success has been achieved in the delivery of government funded employment and training programs, through our brand Blue Sky Mind Studio, and is supported by structures and systems that have national quality assurance recognition. We provide a work environment our staff are proud to recommend.
Our BlueSky Mind Studio team provide vocational based allied health services, and expanding Registered NDIS services in both WA and SA. This enables our Organisation to support Participants through a person centered, holistic and strengths based mode of service delivery.
We invite you to visit our website at for more information on our NDIS and Allied Health services.
How to Apply:
Please apply through the Apply link, and include a letter of application and resume addressed to:
Human Resource and Quality Assurance Officer at
Job Description for the roleis available at
Confidential telephone inquiries are welcome to the Human Resources on
All final applicants for this position will be asked to provide a currentNational Police Clearanceand a currentWorking with Children Check.Please note that people with a criminal record are not automatically barred from applying for this position; rather the relevance will be considered as it applies to our industry.
Eighty9 Limited is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQ+ and people from non-English speaking backgrounds to apply for this position.