online workshop

Disability Employment Reforms: What Support Coordinators Need to Know

Unpack the launch of Inclusive Employment Australia and what every SC team needs to know to support participants through these changes.

Registration

Flexible rescheduling

Change up to 4 hours before.

Why take this course?

Disability employment is undergoing its biggest shake-up in years. From November 2025, Disability Employment Services (DES) will be replaced by Inclusive Employment Australia (IEA), introducing major changes in the way that employment supports are funded. And this change has come hot on the heels of a large number of other tweaks made to disability employment supports.

For Support Coordinators, this means more participants will look to you for guidance on navigating their employment options. Knowing how the new system works, what language the NDIA expects and how to link employment goals to NDIS funding will be essential. This workshop unpacks what’s changing, what it means for your role as Support Coordinator and how to support participants through the changes.

What you’ll gain

Across two hours, you will gain:

  • A clear overview of how Inclusive Employment Australia will replace DES and what’s changing in eligibility and access

  • Insight into new programs like the National Panel of Assessors, pilot projects and the Centre for Inclusive Employment

  • Practical strategies to support participants during the transition period as SLES tightens and ADEs realign

  • Guidance on how funding period changes may affect employment supports claims

  • Tips on billing opportunities and negotiating funding into Capacity Building

  • A roadmap for building employment expertise in your SC team and why every business needs a specialist



Who’s it for?

  • Support Coordinators, Psychosocial Recovery Coaches and Team Leaders


What’s included?

  • 2-hour Zoom session

  • PDF Copy of the slide deck

Sessions

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Sally Coddington

Sally, our NDIS wonderwoman and 'pocket rocket,' combines humour with a wealth of NDIS knowledge, intellect, and energy. With extensive experience in financial and human services across B2B and B2C sectors, she’s a dynamic trainer, Certified Practicing Marketer, Harvard Alumni and passionate advocate for disability rights.

For over 15 years, she has been a key figure in the disability sector, currently as a Director of Hunter Circles. Sally has served on boards like The Centre for Universal Design, Business Hunter, and Community Disability Alliance Hunter (CDAH), and contributed to the NSW Disability Council. 

Sally's personal experience deepens her professional insights; her daughter Nicky, an NDIS participant for four years, passed away in 2018. This unique blend of experience shapes her understanding of the challenges and opportunities in the NDIS business landscape.

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Ann Drieberg

With over 25 years experience in the disability, mental health and aged care sectors, Ann understands the big picture of organisational success in the NDIS. Give Ann a complex problem and she will break it down to its workable bits and then collaborate with you to build the human solutions. Her ability to work at the heart of things is her superpower for the design and implementation of new systems and services in employment, accommodation, community inclusion and training. Ann has that rare mix of systems expertise with co-design nous that delivers outcomes that people own. She is our go-to for organisations wanting to develop through engaging the people that matter, from services users to the Board and everyone in between.

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Rob Woolley

Our very own Woolly Mammoth, pulls up last in the alphabetical rankings but always gets a place on the DSC podium for combining curiosity with smarts. He knows so much about the NDIS it is scary. Rob lives a personal commitment to sharing his knowledge with an endgame of people with disability in control. Combining lived experience of the early childhood intervention pathway with professional experience of the realities of provider life - he has consistently shown the inability to hold down a real job. His roles in the disability sector have covered direct support work, project management, business development, consulting, ILC-funded advocacy roles and owner-operator of a registered and then unregistered provider (but the thing he is best at is being a very present dad). If you want a consultant or trainer in your corner you will be looking high and low to do better than our Rob.