A support coordinator or specialist support coordinator delivers support coordination services. Support coordination helps participants to make the best use of your supports in plan. Support coordination is a capacity building support which helps participants to:
- Understand and use participants NDIS plan to pursue their goals
- Connect participants with NDIS providers, community, mainstream and other government services
- Build your confidence and skills to use and coordinate participants supports.
Key Accountabilities
- Action referrals in a timely manner
- Support the NDIS participant to:
- Assess a number of mainstream, community, informal and provider options
- Select preferred options or providers
- Negotiate services to be provided and their prices
- Develop service agreements and create service bookings with preferred providers
- Arrange for any assessments required to determine the nature and type of funding required (e.g. assessment to determine the type of complex home modifications required)
- Determine the budget for each support type and advise any relevant plan manager of the breakdown of funds
- Liaise with any plan manager to establish the appropriate claim categories and attribute the correct amount of funds
- Link to mainstream or community services (i.e. housing, education, transport, health)
- Strengthen and enhance participants capacity to coordinate supports, self-direct and manage supports and participate in the community, including providing participants with assistance to:
- resolve problems or issues that arise
- understand their responsibilities under service agreements
- change or end a service agreement
- Be the key contact for service issues, complaints, major changes and plan reviews.
- Assist participants to prepare for their plan review by supporting them to:
- assess whether they achieved their goals and got value for money for their plan
- identify solutions to problems experienced in implementing the plan
- consider new goals
- Assist participants to decide on what actions to take to achieve goals in relation to exploring housing options and life transition planning.
Other
- Maintain confidentiality of customers, their families/carers and the organisation
- Effective networking internally and externally to assist individuals achieve their desired personal outcomes.
- Manage any perceived or real conflict of interest in accordance with the NDIA’s Terms of Business
- Provide NDIA with reports on specific goals, outcomes and success indicators within the agreed reporting frequency.
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