MatchWorks supports employees with an injury, disability, or health conditions to maintain their employment through the Australian Government funded Work Assist program.
We collaborate with employers to identify and implement necessary adjustments and support, ensuring your employees can remain productive within your organisation.
Assistance available could include:
- Allocate a specialist consultant to your workplace
- Conduct workplace assessments
- Help identify employee’s barriers to maintain employment and offer strategies to overcome these barriers.
- Offer your employee reasonable training to help them upskill so they can keep their job.
- Support and advice about how the work environment may be redesigned.
- Workshops to foster diversity and inclusion in your workplace.
- Access to other relevant services, workplace assessments and modifications.
Eligibility criteria:
- Your employee has been working for at least eight hours per week on average over 13 consecutive weeks and still employed.
- Your employee’s injury, disability or medical condition is impacting their ability to fulfill the essential requirements of their role.
- Your employee is an Australian resident or eligible Visa holder.
- Your employee is at least 14 years old but below Age Pension age.
- Additional criteria apply.
Contact us to find out if your business can participate in the Employer Work Assist program.