Nova Locations: Forster

The Forster/ Tuncurry started of being an outreach service for our Taree Branch for clients who could not attend Taree's office. In 2006 we had grown enough to employ one fulltime staff member for the Forster area; we continued to grow and obtained The Transition To Work Program in February 2006. We moved into a quaint little house in James Street Forster with Taree's Manager overseeing the operations. We outgrew our little house very quickly as word of our service spread throughout the community, we then moved to an office premises in South Street Tuncurry where we are still growing our Forster office has grown to having over sixty clients and staff include myself (Margo Isbill) Branch Manager, and three employment consultants (Cindy, Robyn and Ian) and also a very successful Transition to Work Program Job Coach (Joanne). The Forster office is striving we are continuing to grow.

At Nova our professional staffs mission is to help people with a disability find and keep satisfying jobs of their choice
Nova Forster, are extremely proud of the quality service we offer to our clients, schools and industry stakeholders and we will strive to continue to set industry benchmarks of excellence in service delivery. : Our vision for the future is to provide our clients with a specialist service that offers sustainable employment at award conditions, in a field of their vocational choice.
We are committed to providing a quality service to our clients and to provide a service that meets an individual's unique requirement.

Our committed team of respected professionals at Nova Forster ensure they do their utmost to uphold our company's honesty and integrity and also continue to assist people with a disability find and keep satisfying jobs of their individual choice

We are committed to our younger clients in our community, we attend The Great Lakes College and complete Job Clubs one for students who are leaving school and one for year ten students. All of our office's staff enjoy this experience and are always looking forward to completing the next one. This year we shall be presenting two trophies to students one for the most Enthusastic Job Club Participant and one for Most Enthusiastic Work Experience Participant.

Transition to Work is a NSW State Government initiative. Funded by the Department of Aging, Disability and Home Care ‘Transition' aims to assist year 12 school leavers (who have a disability) make a progressive move from school to employment of their choice. .NOVA stands alone that when a student attends OUR NOVA TRANSITION PROGRAM they receive a Certificate 1 in Work Education; THIS HAS ADVANTAGES that they can also receive the pensioner education supplement!Ultimately, the Transition to Work Program is aimed at giving young adults the confidence and the skills needed to become employed. They are taught employment skills such as working with a team, occupational health and safety and their rights in the workplace. We review local, state and international news to give them insight to the world around them. We undertake practical work skills, for example, answering the telephone, photocopying and using the fax machine. We focus on Life Skills, building healthy minds and bodies through nutrition and exercise as well as the tasks some of us take for granted like cooking pikelets, ironing a shirt or catching public transport.

Apart of Nova's Team
As an outlet of Nova everyone knows we have the best possible training, this gives us an advantage as we are professionally trained and qualified. That's why we stand out as the SPECIALISED SERVICE WE ARE! Nova has developed sound systems and procedures which assist us to meet our requirements for our funding body contribute to our success.

Our Team:
The staff in Forster is have commitment, passion and are dedicated to excelling for their clients. I could not ask for better people to work with, we are a great team and we look at a client not being case loaded to a person we are all looking out for that client.

Reputation and Relationships
We have built strong connections in our community by “Always Delivering What We Say We Will “ this has given us support from local businesses where we have delivered valuable staff members that employers they are proud to speak about. Nova conducts two Job Clubs a year at the Great lakes Campus this is something we love to do and a big Thank you to Club Forster who support us to do this each year. We have so many businesses to Thank we appreciate all your support for our clients.

Staff at Nova Forster

Heather Smith - Acting Outlet Manager

Geoff Petterson - Employment Consultant

Sarah Faith - Employment Consultant

Toni-lee Palmer - Employment Consultant

Lyn Leonard - Support Worker

Nova Forster Contact Details:

Shop 4
4 South Street
TUNCURRY NSW 2428

Ph: (02) 6555 8747
Fax: (02) 6555 8539
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