Posted time February 7, 2024 Location Perth Job type Full-time, Part-time
  • Experience: Minimum 1 year
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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