Employability Service Wicklow provides a targeted, personalised, effective employment support and advice service, to people with all types of disabilities, to enter the labour market, or to retain their employment, or return to the labour market throughout County Wicklow.

When Employability receives a referral from the Department of Social Protection, an initial one to one meeting between the Jobseeker and Employability Job Coach will be arranged within fifteen working days.

During the following twenty working days the Jobseeker will begin an evidence-based Employment Needs Assessment. This assessment will identify the skills, competencies, aptitudes, and capacity of the Jobseeker. It will also identify barriers to employment.

The Job Coach, in partnership with the Jobseeker, will then develop an Individual Employment Plan to identify future employment goals, and agree the actions required to overcome any barriers. Appropriate work experience and employment commencement is the main objective at this stage.

One-to-one review meetings will take place between the Job Coach and Jobseeker at least once every thirty working days if the Jobseeker has not entered employment.

Employability Wicklow will inform the Jobseeker about welfare supports, local services, education, and training opportunities and signpost the relevant services.

Employability Wicklow will provide “In Employment Support” in the form of access to a Job Coach for at least the first seventeen weeks of each employment secured while with the Employability service.

A minimum of one engagement with a Job Coach will be offered within the first five days of employment and one engagement every thirty days thereafter.

Each referred Jobseeker will be provided with a professional supported employment service for an initial fifty-two weeks, with the possibility of an additional seventeen weeks “In Employment Support” when paid employment is secured and/or a maximum extension of twenty-six weeks for time spent on agreed training, education, or employment interventions.

The fifty-two-week engagement will commence from the Initial one to one meeting.

An end of service review will be carried out with each Jobseeker at which the Jobseeker will be provided with the final version of their Individual Employment Plan.