Biz Support Packages

Customised packages to help with hiring and training new staff.
For Employers

What is Biz Support?

Recruiting and training new staff is expensive and time-consuming. OCTEC’s customised Biz Support Packages assist employers with hiring and training new staff.

BIZ SUPPORT

Quickstart

Ensuring your new staff are well-prepared and ready to start their new role, with assistance tailored to benefit your business.
Biz Support QuickStart can cover training to ensure new staff are appropriately skilled.

It’s designed to minimise any short-term impact that can be experienced in the initial period after hiring a new employee.

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BIZ SUPPORT

Training

Provides ongoing training and development to ensure new employees remain productive and become long term employees. Can include:

  • Financial support to provide on-the-job training for employees
  • Accredited training certificates or licences for new staff
  • Mentor
  • Traineeship and Apprenticeship pathways for your staff
  • Access to OCTEC Training Services to support your business
BIZ SUPPORT

Mentor

Assessment and facilitation of a mentor should your new staff member require it.

The provision of a formal or informal mentor can be arranged in or out of the workplace. This could be a fellow worker, community mentor or OCTEC Career Consultant. Support supervisors assist those living with disability to adapt work processes.

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BIZ SUPPORT

Wage Assistance

Biz Support Wage Assistance payments can be made at regular intervals throughout employment to assist you as a business owner. Further, we have access to other government-funded wage subsidy programs, dependent on eligibility.

We can also support your business to host a young person’s unpaid internship to discover if they’d suit the position.

BIZ SUPPORT

Post Placement Support

Assists with the provision of uniform, equipment and other requirements, including required workplace modifications. Examples are: PPE, high-visibility workwear, steel-capped boots and other relevant footwear, and tools.

It can also assist with funding work-related modifications and services.

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