Support Coordination – Specialist Support Coordination

Getting the most out of your NDIS plan sometimes requires a little help. Often the system can be confusing and overwhelming especially when you’re busy living day-to-day with a disability or caring for someone who does.

What Is Support Coordination Level 2 – Coordination Of Supports?

The role of a Support Coordinator is to work with you, get to know you and your goals so you can get the very best out of your NDIS plan. A Support Coordinator provides unbiased recommendations on the types of support you might like to access, and where you can best access them. The choice and control is all yours. A Support Coordinator can help provide you with more choices.

At Plan Review Stage, A Support Coordinator Can Help You:

• Prepare for your planning meeting.
• Set and refine goals.
• Set objectives and strategies.

Once you have a plan, a Support Coordinator can help you:

• Manage your supports within the budget parameters of your plan.
• Ensure you have genuine choice and control of service providers.
• Provide you with the tools to manage any issues that may occur with your service provision.
• Ensure you can address issues or barriers in accessing service delivery within existing funded supports in the first instance.
• Request additional funds if you have a change in circumstances.

What is Specialist Support Coordination?

A Specialist Coordinator delivers a higher level of support than that of a Support Coordinator. The focus of a Specialist Support Coordinator is to get to know you and focus on reducing complexity in your life by helping overcome immediate and/or significant barriers in the plan implementation.

The Specialist Coordinator helps:

• Address complex barriers that affect access to supports
• Design a service plan for their support needs, where appropriate.

A Specialist Support Coordinator in HealthIQ Consulting WA is a qualified Allied Health Professional with appropriate experience to deliver the expert approach which is needed to address complex support needs and/or risks. Specialist Support Coordinators work with you and your support network to:

• Identify and understand the barriers impacting ability to access, use and maintain supports.
• Find and try solutions to address these barriers.
• Establish a process to overcome these barriers, including prioritising factors that need to be addressed first and what supports need to be in place immediately.

A Specialist Support Coordinator Can Help You:

• Ensure all services work effectively and cohesively together to help achieve goals in the plan.
• Establish processes to enable communication, cooperation and collaboration within the participant’s network of funded and non-funded supports.
• Helps resolve issues and unexpected situations.
• Ensures a consistent delivery of service and access to relevant support in a crisis or unplanned event.
• Once a service is designed the Specialist Support Coordinator will coordinate the supports. The cost of Specialist Support Coordination and Support Coordination is often covered by the funds in your NDIS plan.

A Social Worker Can Help You:

• Managing Mental Health
• Relationship issues/attachment
• Feelings of stress, anxiety or depression.
• Supporting you to engage with other services
• Safeguarding support – Child Protection Issues
• Safeguarding support – Family Violence Issues
• Safeguarding support – Justice Issues

Pricing Of Support Coordination Level 2 – Assist Life Stage Transitions (0106)

National per hour $ 100.14 Remote per hour $140.19 Very Remote per hour $150.21

Pricing Of Specialist Support Coordination Level 3 – (0132)

National per hour $190.54 Remote per hour $266.75 Very Remote per hour $285.80

Pricing Of Social Work Assessment Recommendation Therapy or Training – Social Work – (0128)

National per hour $193.99 Remote per hour $271.59 Remote MMM6 $271.59

Do You Want To Hear More? Get In Touch.

Contact our friendly Customer Service Team to find out more about how our Coordination Services can assist you. Call us on 041 260 5747 or send us an enquiry through to admin@hiqconsulting.com.au