Supported Employment

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Supported Employment
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Timetable Session 1

• Introduction to the module
• Strategies to promote work for people with
  disabilities
• The emergence of supported employment
• BREAK
• Definition of Supported Employment
• Core Values
• Key Principles

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Learners who successfully complete this module
will

• be familiar with the model of Supported
  Employment and its underpinning ideology
• be capable of supporting individuals with
  learning disability to plan and develop careers
• develop knowledge and skills in marketing
  Supported Employment and in finding jobs for
  individuals with learning disability
• acquire skills in supporting successful working
  relationships between employers and their
  employees with learning disability

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Methods of Assessment

• Project..60
• 2 Assignments40

GRADING Pass 50 64 Merit 65 79
Distinction 80 100
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Supported Employment

• Session 1
• Understanding
• Supported Employment

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Employment Rates of People with Disabilities and
People without a disability in Ireland from the
NDA report A Strategy of Engagement
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Strategies to improve employment statistics for
people with disabilities

• Quotas
• Anti-discrimination law
• Pre-vocational training
• Subsidies/payment schemes
• Tax relief to employers

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Employment Equality Act 1998

• Outlaws discriminatory practices in employment on
  9 grounds
• Gender
• Marital status
• Family status
• Sexual orientation
• Religion
• Age
• Disability
• Race
• Membership of the Traveller Community

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• The act covers
• Equal pay
• Access to employment
• Vocational training
• Conditions of employment
• Work experience
• Promotion
• Dismissal
• It applies to
• public and private sector employment
• vocational training bodies
• full-time and part-time workers

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The Equal Status Act 2000

• This act applies to more than employment
• The employment relevant pieces of the act relate
  to discrimination caused by access issues and
  public transport systems.

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Key characteristics of supported employment

• Support to choose, find and stay in employment
• Paid the going rate
• Jobs in the open labour market
• Training on-the-job

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Why is SE different?

• No financial subsidies to employers
• No training prior to the job
• Support to find the job
• Support to learn the job
• Support to stay in the job
• The employer pays a normal wage

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Definition of Supported Employment

• Supported Employment is
• paid employment
• with ongoing supports
• in the open labour market.

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Sheltered Workshops

• Workers have no employment contract and are not
  protected by employment legislation
• Workers are not entitled to trade union
  membership
• Workers are not paid the going rate for the job.
  Their main income is statutory benefits. The
  workshop pays them therapeutic earnings.

They are workers but not employees!
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Four Core Values underpinning Supported Employment

• Normalisation
• Social Role Valorisation
• Inclusion
• Empowerment

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The key principles of supported employment

• Zero-reject
• Success is about providing the right support in
  the right environment
• Focus on abilities not disabilities
• Rejection of the concept of readiness for work
• Real wages and benefits
• Individuals not groups