Page 849 - Week 03 - Thursday, 2 April 2020
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The Plan’s overall objectives are to collect and report on appropriate data on disability employment, recruitment and retention, as well as professional development.
(4) Four ACTPS Directorates have initiated inclusion champions and/or disability employee networks. These directorates are: CMTEDD, EDU, JACS and TCCS.
CMTEDD established a disability employee network in 2019, engaging the Australian Network on Disability to assist with establishing its Terms of Reference and initial work plan. The CMTEDD Enable Network met five times during 2019 and has 20 members. The Network’s Executive Sponsor and Champion is Kareena Arthy, Deputy-Director General Economic Development.
EDU has a Disability Executive Sponsor and a Disability Advocacy Group.
JACS currently has six Executive Champions across six specific cohorts this includes a People with Disability Champion. Along with this the Champion is supported by the Respect Equity and Diversity (RED) Executive Sponsor and the Chief Human Resources Officer. Day to day management is the responsibility of the Assistant Director, Workforce Inclusion. The Directorate is developing a network for staff and hope to have this in place by July 2020.
TCCS has an executive disability inclusion champion, however, it does not have an established disability employee network.
HD advised that staff networks provide organisational and collegiate supports for staff in partnership with providing a consultative forum for the development of targeted diversity and inclusion employment action plans.
Directorates not specified above advised they are currently developing disability employment action plans or strategies and noted that those strategies will include a framework for disability inclusion champions and disability employee networks.
(5) The ACT Government is working to prioritise mental health in all aspects of our business. A Whog strategy has been developed to focus and coordinate our efforts to improve mental health and wellbeing in our workplaces. The Healthy Minds Thriving Workplaces Strategy 2019 - 2022 focuses on preventing psychosocial harm in our workplace, supporting those experiencing a mental health condition and promoting good mental health and wellbeing for all staff. The strategy will build on existing approaches for continuous improvement in how we support people with mental health conditions to participate fully in ACT Government workplaces. Existing supports for people with mental illness or psychosocial disabilities are:
• access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) services;
• tailored assistance through individual case management approaches for compensable and non-compensable health conditions;
• provision of reasonable adjustments to support work participation;
• access to flexible working arrangements in alignment with enterprise agreements
• supports through Whog programs to facilitate early intervention, including approaches to address workplace relationship breakdown and assist managers to implement psychosocial reasonable adjustments;
• training and resources for managers to assist them to support staff with mental health conditions;
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