Employment Pathways
Yumaro is the leading provider of employment for people with a disability in our region. Not only does Yumaro have the greatest range of genuine employment placement options for participants, but we have over 40 years’ experience. Currently we support over 100 people with a disability in meaningful ongoing employment.
If you are just starting to explore employment options or are looking to make an employment change, then your first step will be to meet with our Employment Pathways Team.
Yumaro’s Employment Pathways service provides a highly person-centred approach to employment supports and services. Our team will work with you to understand your interests, strengths, and support needs. We will then match and support you to an exciting employment opportunity!
Yumaro provides an extensive range of employment pathway opportunities ranging from Social Enterprise employment to placement within local businesses. Maybe you would like to start your own micro business? Yumaro can provide you the supports you need to get you started.
Yumaro’s Learning Centre offer a range of tailored skill development programs to ensure you are prepared and ready to succeed in your new job.”
School Leaver Employment Support
Set your working life on the right path with Yumaro’s school leaver employment supports program.
Our program doesn’t just include job search and skills training like many others, it includes the chance to get actual work experience in one of our innovative social enterprises like the Yumaro Cleaning Cloths, the Yumaro Nursery and Garden Centre or Yumaro Cardboard. We can also assist to set up work experience and ongoing employment in local businesses or as your own boss in a micro business.
We firmly believe that there is no better training for work than really working!
PLANNING
- Creating a Career Plan based on your personal skills, goals and likes
- Develop a personal support plan and receiving tailored supports to build your capacity to work
TRAINING & WORK EXPERIENCE
- Engage in paid Yumaro Social Enterprise employment OR work experience in a local business to get used to being in a working environment (optional)
- Participating in Yumaro’s innovative work readiness training program (optional)
- Receive tailored 1:1 training to build job capacity
JOB FINDING
- Job Search and Job Matching service
- Job trails
WORKING!
- Employment placement support and mentoring
- Ongoing support to build a working lifestyle
How Yumaro supports your employment:
Work Readiness Programs
When it comes to building skills to succeed at work, everybody’s needs are a little different. Yumaro has a learning centre that specialises in designing and delivering fun and engaging programs that are targeted to an individual’s specific skill needs. Some of Yumaro’s work readiness programs include:
- Learning to drive
- Vocational education programs
- Literacy & Numeracy
- Technology skills
- Safe food handling
Open Employment and Volunteering
Yumaro can assist you to gain employment or volunteer work. We have an extensive network of local employers with the skills and experience in supporting people with disabilities to succeed at work.
We understand everyone is different! We customise a program to help you achieve your career goals by enabling you to mix and match any of the services to fulfill your career goals.
Micro Business - Be your own boss!
Looking to start your own small business? Did you know that the NDIS can help? Yumaro’s Employment Pathways team will work with you to determine how the NDIS can get your small business idea moving, and guide you through all the steps of starting and running a small / micro business. ”
Job Requirements Survey
(for NDIS participants only)
Take a few minutes to complete this survey:
Meet the Team:
Rod
Senior Team Leader-Safety Officer Indoor Enterprises & Supported Employment
“In my role I get to witnessing the joy and excitement when our participants achieve things, they would not normally have been able to achieve without the planning and support from our team here at Yumaro. We get to support participants during their time at work, watching and providing support, building their capacities to achieve their individualised work goals.”
Deb
Manager - Social Enterprises Ulladulla
“I work at one of Yumaros social enterprise, the Yumaro Nursery & Garden Centre. We are a wholesale and retail nursery. Like other nurseries we grow and sell plants, however we employ people who are on the NDIS. We have participants who have very little confidence, by working closely with them we help them achieve their goals, these might be small, but you can see it on their face and the way they carry themselves, their confidence grows. We provide a supported workplace where we support our participants on their journey to independence.”
Robyn
ADE Supervisor & Trainer
“My favourite part of working at Yumaro is working with everyone; our supported employees, my colleges, and bosses. Yumaro has a supportive, fun, and loving atmosphere. Yumaro changes lives by providing a safe and secure environment, our participants can come along to work where they make new friends and learn new skills. We also provide lots of social opportunities and social groups for them to get out into the community and enjoy themselves.”
Lisa
Disability Support Worker
“I am based at our Yumaro Nursery & Garden Centre, this is great for me as I’m an outdoors girl. I work with our participates in our ADE (Australian Disability Enterprise). With a Cert II Horticulture, I support them with their work tasks but it’s much more than that, we teach work ethics, help with lunch time prep, we assist in all social aspects. The general work environment at Yumaro is fun, family and friendship.”
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If you would like to discuss how Yumaro can assist with employment, please contact our team:
Contact Us
6-8 Shelley Road
Moruya Industrial Estate
Moruya NSW 2537
157 Warden St
Ulladulla NSW 2539
02 4474 3336
02 4474 0739
enquiries@yumaro.com.au
Social Enterprise Employment
Yumaro operate a range of innovative Social Enterprises that employ staff with and without a disability. For staff with a disability, professional support workers are always onsite to assist you to succeed.
Yumaro is a ‘soft entry to the workforce’. While Yumaro’s Social Enterprises are competitive commercial businesses, ultimately, we prioritise the success of our employees. Our business model is designed around providing supports and training to employees to ensure they succeed.
Some of the different career opportunities for workers to choose from Yumaro are listed below:
Yumaro Paper & Cardboard
Employees in Yumaro Paper & Cardboard pick-up commercial cardboard and office paper from local businesses. Yumaro is an agent for Orora and Visy, we help the local environment by processing large quantities of cardboard.
Survey Pegs
Our survey pegs are used across commercial and residential building/ projects by a number of construction companies and local councils.
Yumaro Document Destruction
Yumaro offers a confidential document shredding service for sensitive material.
Yumaro Nursery & Garden Centre
Yumaro owns a nursery in Ulladulla. It is a wholesale and retail nursery supplying plants from Wollongong to Narooma. The nursery produces high quality native and exotic plants for landscape, commercial and domestic use.
Yumaro Cleaning Cloths
Yumaro manufactures high quality cleaning cloths for sales state-wide through major retail chains such as Bunnings.
Yumaro Grounds Maintenance
Employees take great pride in maintaining the lawns and gardens of local business and residential properties.
Yumaro Textiles
Yumaro has a textile division which produces a variety of products for companies such as Bluescope, Flagstaff, Woolworths, Ensign and the Eurobodalla Shire Council. We also offer an embroidery service for business and sporting uniforms.
Yumaro Administration & Customer Service
Employees work behind the scenes in on databases, photography, social media, as safety officers, up front on the Yumaro reception desk and more.
Screen Printing
Our screen printing is a custom service used by local businesses such as Signature Oysters.
Sandbagging
Yumaro can supply filled sandbags for construction and emergency use in both the Eurobodalla and Southern Shoalhaven regions.