Want to empower your clients to achieve their employment goals?
We believe people with disability should be fully included in the workforce. Our proven pathway is designed to break down the barriers people face in finding and keeping a mainstream job.
Since 2014, Jigsaw has supported more than 1000 people with disability. We have hubs in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra.
What makes Jigsaw different?
Jigsaw is a social enterprise that revolutionises the way people with disability prepare for the workforce by embedding an innovative training program, tailored to each individual’s needs and abilities, within a real business. We believe people prepare best for work through work.
Different from a Disability Employment Service (DES), our three-stage model supports trainees through:
Training in 20 core soft skills, alongside work experience. These skills include teamwork, punctuality and professional communication and are mapped against corporate and government entry-level roles.
Award wage employment working on client contracts for our digitisation and information management business, and
Support to secure and retain mainstream employment with a disability-aware, inclusive employer, when each individual is ready.
Since 2014, Jigsaw has supported more than 1000 people with disability.
Of those employed or transitioned into employment by Jigsaw, 91 per cent retain their position to this day, outperforming other disability employment services.
Who does Jigsaw support?
We welcome all people of working age with disability, but typically support people with disability aged 16 – 29 years old.
We are NDIS funded and, to attend Jigsaw, participants can draw from several categories under Core and Capacity Building, including Finding and Keeping a Job (FAKAJ) and School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES), to attend Jigsaw. Our trainees usually attend Jigsaw two or three days a week, 9 – 3 pm.
We have training places available now. Learn more about how our proven pathway can help your clients achieve their employment goals.
"I'm very proud, I never thought I would get this far"
Jigsaw graduate, Britt, now works in the NSW Department of Premier & Cabinet. Thanks to her successful employment, Britt feels she can now achieve other life goals, such as saving to go on a trip overseas. Most importantly, her confidence has soared.
Disability in the workplace shouldn’t be extraordinary – it should be powerfully, confidently, loudly normal .
Paul Brown
CEO, Jigsaw
Watch this short video to find out more about Jigsaw's model.
We have training places available now. Learn how we can help your clients achieve their employment goals.
