CTP
Xcelerate Employment Solutions provides Return to Work Vocational Rehabilitation for clients of all major CTP insurers. We are a specialist Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) service with staff with specialised knowledge and experience in delivering programs which:
- are innovative
- provide compensatory strategies
- take account of the uniqueness of the client's ABI
We have 8 offices across Sydney as well as outreach in Wollongong, The Central Coast and The Hunter region of NSW.
Our Model of Service Delivery
We have staff with specialist training and experience in psychology, rehabilitation counselling, social work, employment consultancy, marketing, clinical nursing and we are able to provide a professional service that is outcome focused. Testimony to our success is the fact that we have continued to maintain government contracts based on our proven track record of job placement.
Our model is based on a 4-phase approach:
Assessment-Workshops-Case Management-Post-Placement Support
1. The Assessment:
Each client is assessed and their background/specific needs and goals are determined. Included in the assessment phase is a comprehensive intervention plan outlining the specific needs requirements of the client, employability skills as well as recommended interventions that are necessary for the client to return to work. The assessment identifies current barriers affecting return to work, transferable skills and suitable vocational goals. The assessment involves a detailed interview and the administration of a suite of assessment tools and psychometric tests. If following Initial assessment the worker is suitable to commence the job placement program, the worker will be transferred to our team of employment consultants and reverse marketers. If following Initial assessment the worker needs further assistance to become job ready, the worker will commence a 3 month case management phase, to ensure the worker is job ready.
The Return to Work Plan will identify vocational goals, transferable skills, aptitude and interests, literacy skills, medical recommendations, labor market analysis, job seeking skills assessment, worker’s strengths and barriers to the return to work.
2. The Workshops:
After the assessment, the client is placed in an intensive week long Work Preparation workshop that will implement strategies to address the identified issues and barriers affecting the claimant’s return to work. The workshops will focus on building and identifying strengths and transferrable competencies that underpin employment. A transdisciplinary approach will be implemented with the aim of increasing the capacity to adapt to different work roles.
The Work Preparation workshop conducted by Xcelerate Employment Solutions prepares clients for work. The workshops are informed by multifaceted methodologies; specifically motivational enhancement therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and strengths perspective. Emphasis is also placed on job expectations, working with co-workers and listening/organising/checking on the job.
• Day 1: Why am I unemployed: - An educational journey through the deficits and barriers associated
with life away from employment.
• Day 2: Negative Thinking, Social Psychology and improving wellbeing.
• Day 3: Strengths: Working with what we have! Utilizing vocational, transferrable and
employability skills to achieve goals and remain task orientated.
• Day 4: Mayer Key Competencies: Exercises to prove your competency for work, vocational skill
requirements necessary for the job – Link this back to NTIS and UOC’s of common jobs in the local
labor market
• Day 5: Behavioral strategies to address deficits, practical strategies for addressing barriers.
We also offer a range of other pre-employment programs that can be tailored to the individual needs of the client. The pre-employment programs are intensive, structured, outcomes focused and have been evaluated from testing in the field. Our Programs address the barriers that stop individuals from participating in the economic life of the community. They are specifically designed to target the maladaptive thoughts, emotions and behaviors that hold these barriers in place. Most barriers to employment are determined by person’s unhelpful ways of thinking. By helping jobseekers to understand the presenting problem, its causes and effects and by teaching skills and strategies to overcome unhelpful thoughts, emotions and behaviors,
3. Case Management
An intensive period of intervention featuring up to 6 sessions of Solution focused brief therapy designed to illicit change in ambivalent clients, as well as up to 20 sessions of intensive employment assistance with a dedicated mobile industry consultant to place the client in work.
Xcelerate Employment Solutions will utilise its recruitment expertise to market and promote its clients into stable employment opportunities. We have access to a broad range of employers who are sympathetic to employing jobseekers with disabilities/barriers. We also use quirky marketing approaches to individually market our jobseekers.
Flyers
We will promote our job seekers using tailored and innovative marketing strategies. One of the most effective methods we have found is the use of the individual promotional flyers. We design a flyer promoting the individual promotional flyers. We design a flyer promoting the individual qualities of a particular client, their abilities, interests and area in which they have had experience and post these to specific employer groups. we have found this unconventional method highly effective in terms of obtaining employment for our clients. guerrilla marketing techniques have been employed to create a'buzz' and harness demand for the skills of our clients.
4. The Support:
Once the client is in work, Xcelerate Employment Solutions realizes the necessity of keeping the client in work. To this end, Xcelerate utilizes is unique job line support strategy. Clients in need of assistance can ring up at any time during office hours on 1300 1366 54 for confidential counselling and support designed to keep the job seeker happy, healthy, and motivated and in work. Ongoing post placement support will be provided to the claimant.
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