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Welcome to the NDIS Workforce Capability Framework’s Career Options Guide. The Framework describes the attitudes, skills, and knowledge expected of all workers funded under the NDIS. It is supported by other tools guides and resources to help participants, providers and workers to understand ‘what good looks like’ in delivering and receiving supports.
There are many ways to expand or grow your career in the disability support sector, and our Career Options Guide can help.
Take Bill for example, he loves his role as support worker but once to move to a frontline supervision or management position. To find out how his strengths line up with the available options, and what the next steps to take are, Bill uses the Career Options Guide. The guide is there to help Bill and anyone like him understand how to use and develop their skills, capabilities, and interests and begin to expand their career in disability support.
The guide provides suggestions, role descriptions, resources, tips, and all the facts Bill needs to consider, that may be unique to his goals and circumstances. From the first click he can select from a range of options that clearly outline the different types of support work available, the skills needed for the job, roles available in different organisations, and really examples of careers that help him plan his next steps.
With the Career Options Guide, Bill’s journey has never been easier. To map out your career path in disabilities support, visit the website today.
The Workforce Capability Framework, or simply the framework, can help workers or potential workers in the disability sector understand their possible career pathways. The Framework describes the attitudes, skills, and knowledge expected of all workers funded under the NDIS. It also establishes a shared language of ‘what good looks like’ for participants.
The Career Options guide can help support workers explore their options to deepen their skills in their current job, or pursue other career opportunities in the disability sector, or the career sector in general.
For providers, this tool is valuable when supporting workers development and growth through supervision conversations. It can also help with strategic workforce planning and clarifying the roles that are needed for a provider.
Let's take a look at how Bill uses the Career Options Guide. He’s interested in making plans for a career in the sector long term, but he’s unsure of how to specialise in a specific type of work, how to move up in his career, and how his strengths line up with his options. Bill uses the guide to explore many different pathways, such as looking through general support options, learning more about specialised supports, checking the requirements for different roles, and exploring supervisory or frontline management roles. After checking out the various options, Bill decides he want to pursue a specialised support working with people with psychosocial disability, and he uses the information in the guide to plan his next steps. He discusses the options with his supervisor and adds development opportunities into his training plan.
The Career Options Guide supports Bill and his provider in identifying training opportunities specific to his goals and growth needs, and helps progress his skills and career path. Visit the NDIS Workforce Capability Framework website and start exploring your options to develop your capabilities and career in the disability sector.