MatchWorks to offer more services with tender win
12 February 2010
MatchWorks will soon provide even more job services across Melbourne and regional Victoria to assist people with disabilities, injury or health conditions gain employment.
It was announced in December that MatchWorks had won a Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations tender to provide Disability Employment Services (DES) at its existing sites as well as new business in Epping, Preston, Bendigo, Melton and at its outreach site in Bannockburn.
MatchWorks DES General Manager Karen Rainbow said DES was a specialist program designed to help people with disabilities, injury or health condition to find and maintain work.
The DES program includes working closely with employers to find a safe and sustainable job for the individual, training, workplace assessment and modification and ongoing support once employment has been achieved.
Karen said job seekers with disabilities in Epping, Preston, Bendigo, Melton and Bannockburn would benefit immensely from the new services.
Additionally these results will mean the employment of new staff at all new sites successful in the tender.
“This program is at the core of what Karingal and therefore MatchWorks is all about – it’s about helping people facing adversity fulfill the goals they have set for themselves,” she said.