Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
Overall Job Responsibility
You will work with special education graduates to facilitate their transition to work. You will design and implement support strategies to enable special education graduates with different disabilities profile (intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder or multiple disabilities) to integrate into their workplaces and retain in employment independently.
You will also work closely with various key stakeholders such as employers, co-workers, caregivers, support network, to help the special education graduates/persons with disabilities to secure and sustain employment.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Work closely with the persons with disabilities to provide individualised coaching and job support through various mode of communications, e.g. online, face-to-face
- Design and implement job support strategies for various job roles to better support the persons with disabilities
- Educate, share best practices and establish rapport with the employers, supervisors/co-workers to promote an inclusive work environment and create sustainable employment
- Assess and provide recommendations on necessary workplace and process modifications to assist persons with disabilities in job assimilation and tasks performance
- Work with persons with disabilities and their support network to help persons with disabilities sustain employment, e.g. co-workers and caregivers to address and resolve work-related concerns
- Provide training and advisory to persons with disabilities’ employers, supervisors, co-workers as part of building natural support
- Impart social and soft skills to persons with disabilities as part of work preparation
- Document case notes and submit weekly reports on persons with disabilities’ progress, strategies adopted and outcomes
- Maintain regular communication and provide timely and accurate updates to stakeholders, e.g. employers and caregivers on persons with disabilities’ work progress and work performance
- Participate in cross-divisional workgroup/s and provide ad-hoc secretarial support
- Any other duties assigned by supervisor
