Jobseekers craft your career with us!

People with Disability:
We help people who have barriers to living an equal and full life through finding a job that suits them.

(Capacity building Employment Assistance and core Supports in Employment through NDIS funded and fee for service participation).

Employers:
Employers learn to implement diversity in the workplace.

We help businesses learn how to employ and accommodate employees with a disability, learning difficulty or gaps in work history. Experienced project managers help you implement inclusive practice.

Together we....

Work with jobseekers to build their employability, so employers can access a talent pool who are ready to work, supported by us and who are committed long term to the workplace.

Our Vision & Mission & Purpose

EquallyU is an NDIS Registered Employment and Daily Life Skills Provider.

Jan and Kym met while working together on an innovative transition to work program for people with learning difficulties and disability.

While designing and improving the project along the way, they saw an opportunity to share their skills and knowledge with more people and Equally U was born.

Vision
Our Vision is a future where every person, regardless of barrier, is guaranteed an equitable and barrier-free pathway to a meaningful life through sustainable employment. We envision workplaces where every talent is seen, valued, and empowered, driven by authentic inclusion through genuine desire to demonstrate and achieve outcomes.

We love working in partnership with employers so that they can be confident, and barrier-free where diversity thrives, opening up more employment opportunities for people facing barriers to employment.

Mission
Our Mission is to transform lives and workplaces by providing personalised support that ensures participants have a truly barrier-free and equitable experience on their journey to work, and workplace teams are empowered by their deeper understanding of people with lived experience of disability.

Benefits of our services

Benefits

Benefits of joining EquallyU include:

Your Career, Your Way
One-on-one job coaching for young NDIS participants who want to work. From school to new pathways to study or work, we can help you plan, and create an action plan.

We listen: Personalised coaching based on your goals.
We train: Upskill on travel, communication, and workplace skills, interview, resume, career planning & skills building.
We connect: Access exclusive work experience with inclusive employers and potential employers.
We fit: We work with you to define your choice of employer, a role to your strengths, not the other way around.
Funding:

Use your NDIS Category 10 (Capacity Building) budget or Category 4, 9 from your budget. We also offer Fee for Service places for those who do not have NDIS funding.

We lean in to your interests, strengths and skills

Contact us now to learn more! We have places for 2026.

Supports in Employment

Type of Support:
EquallyU provides services that align with NDIS funding and goals:

Foundation Skills - Building job readiness, such as travel training, managing a daily schedule, and understanding workplace rules and etiquette. Ensures you have the independent daily living skills to maintain your job successfully.
Vocational Skill Development - Training for a specific job or industry. For example, our Employer partnership programs provides real-world training. Direct skill building that meets your goals for a specific job.
Job Customisation & Matching - Working with employers we can assist in tailoring a role to your strengths, and assisting with the reasonable adjustments with your employer to ensure that you keep your job. We help overcome disability-related barriers that may have led to unsuccessful employment attempts in the past.
Intensive Coaching - One-on-one sessions with an experienced job coach preparing and coaching you for interviews, resumes, and on-the-job support during probation. Provides the high-level, individualised support needed for ongoing successful employment.

Pathways to Employment

Employer Connection Assistance and Disability Confidence Workshops

Talent Search: We make connections with inclusive employers, we assist with equal opportunities and help in the job placement process. We provide on-the-job coaching and mentoring in the workplace to ensure long term, sustainable employment. Disability Awareness Training: Get in contact to learn about our Disability Confidence Building workshops to help your staff learn workplace good practices when working with a person with disability. Half day sessions can provide key insights to a more inclusive workplace.

Customised Skill Development

We tailor skill-building services to meet job building and life skills for the job that you want, we are experienced and ensure participants gain the necessary skills to thrive in your desired roles and a life you want.

Personalised Job Coaching

Our experienced coaches provide personalised guidance and support to write your story! We walk side by side to help you participate more in your community and develop job search skills, prepare for interviews, and build skills required for the job you want. With a whole person, whole life - a vital part of the process, a guided journey to help your achieve success in your life. We give you the tools, teach you how to use them and help you enact them.

Apply for your personalised Job Coaching, the Purposeful Job Quest

For people who are seeking connections to your community and connect to work. If you need to build your self awareness and work knowledge, coaching you for better preparation in finding and keeping a job with our Purposeful and skills development framework.

Purposeful Disability Supported Employer Provider

Get in touch to learn how we can help your disability service provide pathways to open employment opportunities in a fully supported, safe and done for you program. Enabling you to provide meaningful experiences to build skills and to open up opportunities for participants in a hybrid style of program.

Purposeful Employer

Get in contact with us to learn more about our Disability Awareness Training, a framework created with practical strategies about working with people with disability and/or learning difficulty. Or our Purposeful Employer Program or if you are interested in our work immersion program, giving someone an opportunity to learn about work and build skills in a corporate classroom fully supported by an on the job mentor. If you are interested in hiring work ready employees who have been upskilled and are ready to take their next step into a fulfilling job and career of their dreams. Find out the many benefits and ways that we can help you in your journey to a more diverse and inclusive workplace with Aequis Talent to support you, your staff and your new employee.

Purposeful Employer Program - embracing diversity in the workplace

Have you wanted to contribute to a greater cause that positively impacts your workplace. Contact us to learn how a Purposeful Employer Program provides training, learning and the ability to apply the learning while your staff work. A fully supported 12 week program to guide you through a successful culture shift in inclusion and diversity. This is not just another 90 minute 'set and forget' inclusion awareness training course, but a comprehensive integrated program enabling you to practice what you learn while improving someone's life who has barriers.

Expressions of Interest - get in touch to learn more about how to be an Purposeful employer sponsor,

Get in touch to learn more about our different Purposeful Employer programs, whether you are: - a business who is interested in Disability Awareness Training to diversify your culture and workforce, - or you wish to employ someone who is facing barriers to employment - or if you are a disability employment organisation looking to upskill your current supported employees to open up different pathways for work.

Kym did an incredible job at setting up young individuals with disability to be quality assurance testers for my software games development company. It was a unique arrangement outside the regular opportunities for these young individuals, which worked out exceptionally well. I highly recommend Kym and her work.
Huy
Employer

Having worked with Kym over the past 12 months or so, I can honestly say that she is a great communicator and facilitator, particularly in the disability employment space. Kym was of great help with our intern program and we had some excellent outcomes thanks to her input and advice.
Nick
Employer

Kym is easy to work with and has a "can do" positive attitude. It is clear that when she is working on a project she dedicates all her energy and commitment to making that project the best it can be. I'm hoping that there are future opportunities to again work with Kym.
Paul
Software Testing Professional, Trainer EPIC Testability Academy

Once I started the integrated work program, I realised what I enjoyed doing and what I was good at. Then I saw my place in the workforce - a future where I can do this and earn money to be independent. This is a great idea to immerse yourself in this program, its more than just a classroom, and you realise that your skills and abilities and can contribute.
Penny
Participant

As a mum, I am extremely proud. She's become a very confident young adult, after a lot of struggles throughout her life. She is working full time, progressing and loving it. I love seeing her get ready and go to work and come home to talk about her day. I never thought that I would see for her in life. She learnt to socialise and made friends, which was always a struggle at school - this was an unexpected outcome from the program.
Betsy
Mum

Congratulations Jan. You're possibly one of the most experienced people I know in relation to creating job ready candidates from people with learning difficulties. And so now , together with Kym, you've written your own program and you're now taking it to the world by launching your own Consultancy business. People like you are making a real difference.
David
Franchise Business Owner

I've noticed a positive change in my young adult. The purpose and meaning of a work placement has improved her confidence and communication skills. She has grown so much.
Jerri
Mum to Bella

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+61-03 99678742 - EquallyU
hello@equallyu.com.au
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Do you provide Employment Assistance and Supports in Employment with NDIS funding?

Yes, we can invoice your NDIS plan from your NDIS plan from your core or capacity building and transition to work. We can also provide Supports in Employment, depending on your funding to ensure that you keep your job once you have settled in.

We can also provide services under the old name of SLES to assist participants.

We are a Registered NDIS Provider and can invoice NDIA managed plans.

Where do you deliver services?

The benefit of our service is that it can be delivered online, in your home or at a local community hub or library, while we coach you through your development.

The best delivery is in-person, so we get the best outcomes and can connect with your local community and employers.

We are based in Melbourne metropolitan, but depending on what employer programs we currently have, regional Victoria may be a possibility. Get in touch to find out where we currently are providing services.

Is this service a course?

Our service is NOT an accredited course. We use coaching tools that we have written to help build employability skill and capacity, this is with mentored guidance throughout.

You wont receive a qualification but we concentrate on outcomes. You will receive more than a head full of information - we build your skills, understanding of you and help you develop your story with practical guidance that you need to find and keep a job.

Will you help me find a job?

We have a decade of experience working in employment programs coaching and mentoring people with disability to find and keep a job. We've run employer programs that have achieved 80% employment success for participants. While we dont guarantee you a job, we make sure that we can set you up for success and place you in the best possible position to gain employment. Because you need to do some of the work to gaining employment. We work with small numbers to ensure that we can help you where you need it the most.

What will I get as part of the service?

Discovery Session

We'll begin with a Discovery session to learn about you, your family, your support network, and your community. We’ll explore your employment experiences through a questionnaire to assess your current position on the job readiness scale.

Coaching Services

Next, you'll enter our coaching service, which includes a comprehensive workbook and access to an online portal. Over 12 weeks, we’ll guide you each step of the way. Once completed we continue working with you until you find the right opportunity.

Exploring Opportunities

When you’re ready, we’ll dive into different work options and types of employment. Before this, we’ll equip you with essential tools to understand your values, strengths, and transferable skills, empowering you to confidently share your story in the job market.

What's Next:

Bonus Section: Employment for Me!

In our bonus section, "Employment for Me!", we’ll teach you self-advocacy skills, provide insights into the employment market, and help you craft your resume and cover letters in your own words. You’ll also learn how to use AI effectively to enhance your application.

What happens after the Purposeful Job Quest program finishes?

When you complete the capacity building program, or during, we will help you explore different work options that suit your needs. Sometimes it wont be the dream job you were thinking, but when you know that you need some extra experience, we can get that from different types of workplace.

No career was ever as straight as a ladder.

We run the Purposeful Employer Programs (PEP) with businesses interested in becoming more inclusive in their recruitment practices and their workforce. We can invite you to jump on board for a spot on one of these programs which is work immersion in group settings.

We can also provide you with on the job Supports in Employment to ensure that you keep your job and work with your employer to ensure they make necessary adjustments for you to keep your job.

Or your pathway may be a referral to a (DES) IEA provider or another NDIS provider who can take you on a different route to your employment goal.

We will work with you and what you want to achieve.

How do I know if I can have access to NDIS Funding?

If you want to apply to the NDIS, connecting with a partner is a good first step. If you’re 9 or older it’s best to contact your local area coordinator (LAC). LAC's will help you understand the eligibility requirements, and what information and identification you need to give us. They will help you apply to the NDIS by submitting the application on your behalf. This means you don’t need to complete the access request form yourself.

You can submit the access request form or to get started, visit the office location page on the NDIS website or call NDIA on

1800 800 110.

Eligibility

You need to be under 65 years of age
you need to live in Australia, and be an Australian citizen, permanent resident, or Protected Special Category Visa holder
You may qualify under the disability requirements if you have one or more permanent impairments that significantly impact your ability to carry out daily life activities.
Alternatively, you may be eligible under the early intervention requirements if you have one or more permanent impairments where NDIS supports could help reduce your need for future assistance.

Am I eligible?

Are you outcomes focused? Will you get me a job?

This is a good question. We have more than 7 years experience working with people who have disability and with inclusive employers. By following our tried and tested framework, we put you in the best position to be employed and stay employed. That's our part of the bargain at least. We also understand that we may not be the best fit for you, in that case, we'll be proactive and help you find a provider who fits your needs better. We started this business solely to achieve outcomes in disability employment for people with disability.

What if I don't have NDIS funding, can I still get help from your service?

We can help anyone who has the desire to work and is not scared to put in the effort to achieve their goals.

Our prices are set according to the NDIS Price Guide, but we can provide services to anyone.

We would bill you directly for our hourly rate, as a pay-as-you-go style of service. Much like when you engage a tutor for school or study. We'll bill you weekly and you can provide us with 7 days before the date you want to change the frequency or stop services in writing (email) at anytime.

Get in contact at hello@equallyu.com.au and we can provide you with a quotation. If this is still not an option, but you are still interested, get in contact anyway to discuss your situation.

Can I just do your employment coaching program without the weekly coaching?

Thanks for your question.

This is possible, however if you want to achieve results, we recommend that the coaching and mentoring needs to be included along with the Purposeful Job Hunter program.

This is how we get to know you better, you get to know yourself, your unique talents, skills and hopes setting you up for a job placement that is meaningful and relevant. How many times have you been placed in jobs or work experiences that don't align with your values and interests, or the employer is not an inclusive one?

Let's stack all of the odds in YOUR favour!

I'm confused by NDIS and who manages what?

Yes this is a common problem when people get NDIS plans, then dont know who provides what service in the chain. There are Local Area Coordinators (LAC's) NDIA, Plan Managers, Support Coordinators/Psychosocial Recovery Coaches and then Providers who deliver services to help you. We hope this helps:

Gain and Increase Funding:

You work with a Local Area Coordinator, who is an NDIA appointed representative to liaise with the NDIA for funding. Everybody needs to engage with a LAC to gain access and manage funding assessments with the NDIA.

Manage Funding and Select Providers:

You have a choice to self manage your plan. Sometimes this is hard to keep track of your funding and coordinating services by yourself without having the knowledge from the NDIS sector. You'll have to manage and pay providers on time and track your spending so as not to run out of funds before the end of your plan date to pay all of your providers.

Coordinate Services and Help Manage Funding:

(e.g. Grace Professional, Future Focus, Stellar Rose Services)

Support Coordinators/Psychosocial Recovery Coaches - (independent service) engage a support coordinator (if you have funding for one, it is normally stated in your plan if you do), an independent person who specialises in knowing all of the different services offered by NDIS providers and can make connections for you as they understand your goals and your allocated funding and where you want to spend it to help you live a full life.

Pay Providers and Manage Funding:

(e.g. Plan Partners, NDSP, Thrive)

A Plan Manager (like an accountant who specialises in NDIA funding) helps you manage the funds in your plan and pay providers on your behalf. They'll keep an eye on things for you and make sure that providers are charging you correctly for things that you have funding for in your plan.

Providers:

We are an NDIS provider (waiting for registration) but provide services to NDIS participants. There are many different providers who have built services to assist you to live a full life. Some are NDIS Registered and other are not NDIS Registered. You can still use non registered providers, as long as your plan is not plan managed by the NDIA, but are self managed or use a Plan Manager (that is not NDIA).

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Jan

Owner/Job Coach

Jan has many years (over 20) as a teacher working with young adults who are neurodivergent and with learning difficulties. Jan has 2 adult sons and a granddaughter who steals her away on Mondays a fur baby named Arthur and a partner in David. Jan is a runner and its nothing for her to do a 10 km run and then a swim in the ocean everyday. She's passionate about making a difference in people's lives.

Kym

Owner / Job Coach

Kym brings over seven years of experience to the disability sector, having worked within DES and NDIS services helping people overcome barriers to employment. As a job coach driven by purpose, she specialises in empowering people to find and keep meaningful work, finding it incredibly rewarding when her clients achieve their goals. Outside of work, Kym manages a busy household with a husband, three young adult children, and two fur babies, Charlie and Lola. To recharge, she loves getting outdoors; finding time to ride, walk in nature, and swim fills her soul.

Bec

Social Media Administration Assistant

Bec is an Autistic advocate who’s passionate about making the world a more inclusive place for people with disabilities — especially when it comes to employment and education. Having taken part in programs like those offered at EquallyU, she’s seen first-hand how the right support can change lives. It’s what inspires her to give back and help others on their own journey. She’s part of the team at Amaze, supporting Autistic people and their families as a Specialist Autism Advisor. At EquallyU, Bec is our creative all-rounder — she’s the friendly face behind our social media and occasional blog, - someone who brings heart, authenticity, and lived experience to EquallyU.

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