A Support Coordinator is very crucial to an NDIS participant because a support coordinator assists NDIS participants in realizing their plans and putting them into action. Also, links services to the person, develops capacity, and optimizes use of NDIS funds. It is a very important role to assist with system navigation and access to appropriate supports.
There are various forms of support coordination depending on the individual’s individual needs, i.e., Coordination of Supports, Support Connection, and Specialist Support Coordination. The skills learned by an individual will belong to support coordinators, eliminate the obstacles of access, and create objectives. A coordinator’s activity will be discussed here and in what manner he will add value to the gain obtained through the NDIS plan on your behalf. Support Coordinator: An Overview
A support coordinator is the person who will assist all the NDIS participants in using their NDIS plans in the best way possible. As a representative, it is their duty to connect all the participants with the best available services and see that they receive the required support towards achieving goals.
NDIS plans are complicated and confusing for those who have just begun to use the system. A support coordinator avoids stress by filling in the gap of support and making sure that all is well; having a guide as one treads the NDIS journey.
Support Coordination Types
In NDIS, there are three significant levels of support coordination to offer various types of support to the participants based on their needs.
1. Support Connection
Support Connection is the lowest level of support coordination, helping clients to navigate their NDIS plan and linking with service providers. The support coordinator helps the client to arrange appointments and make some decisions.
2. Coordination of Supports
The specialist support coordinator coordinates with the participant so that all the services are running well and all the problems are being resolved to facilitate good communication among the services.
3. Specialist Support Coordination
This is the most sophisticated stage of support and one that is appropriate for individuals with more complicated needs. A specialist support coordinator deals with a very complicated case, e.g., a housing crisis, mental health services, or court matters. Such specialists also deal with crisis or extreme shifts in the participant.
Key Responsibilities of a Support Coordinator
This is a list of all the most significant things that a support coordinator can assist you with:
– Help you to access NDIS plan;
– Help you to be matched to the services you desire;
– Help you to set and achieve your goals;
– Organize services so that they are working together;
– Help you with change or crisis;
– Report to NDIS;
– Coordinate with family members, carers, or guardians.
Support coordinators enable you to help work on your capacity so that you can then work out how to implement the NDIS plan, ultimately for your own good.
What is a Support Coordinator Important for?
Selecting quality services is always a challenging task for all customers. There are numerous providers and people get confused amidst the chaos. Support coordinators are a medium through which time could be saved along with confusion by professional guidance and support to customers.
They ensure your finance is being used in a correct way and that you are not losing out on any service which you must be using. They work all the time so that your plan gets built upon in terms of health, safety, goals, and happiness.
A Support Coordinator is the NDIS Supporters
If you are just one among a handful of NDIS participants who don’t have a support coordinator, then perhaps you are one among many who can benefit from that. Below are examples which would be the standard of your requiring one or not:
– New NDIS client and has no idea where to start.
– Overwhelmed by a minor service but not.
– Multiple disabilities and even multiple needs.
– More independent.
You thus enjoy choice of provider freedom of the one you desire to work with your plan by directing support coordination funding into your NDIS plan.
The Difference between Plan Management and Support Coordination
NDIS plan management is confused with support coordination since they sound the same. They are not, though.
– Regular NDIS plan management: For instance, it’s about investing the money into a client’s NDIS plan. The client will have a plan manager who pays the client’s budgeted bills.
– Support holds everything together in the form of support and services to him or her. It assists in decision-making on his or her behalf and takes them to their suppliers, thereby the intended effects beyond that.
If you can do both support coordination and plan management, good for you! They would in the past have been secondary, thereby reaching maximally full support.
How do I set up assistance coordination within my NDIS plan?
The support coordination you desire must be included in your NDIS plan. You can ask for it at the planning session. If things change, you can ask for a review of your plan in which to include support coordination.
When explaining support coordination, explain why you wish to have help coordinating your services or, if not that, having things sorted out in regards to complicated matters.
Most Significant Characteristics of an Ideal Support Coordination
They all do not coordinate support services equally. Some of the characteristics that are wished for in a support coordinator are listed below:
– They listen to you and uphold your decision.
– They have knowledge about the available services in your vicinity and individuals who provide them.
– They explain things and respond to your inquiries.
– They are punctual in assisting you to sort out your issues.
– They provide you with freedom and development.
Once more, the tremendous differences in your life with the right support coordinator are well worth making an effort to get someone who really understands you and knows what you need.
Liberty Disability Services
Liberty Disability Services helps you make the most of your NDIS plan. Our support coordinators are experienced and give supportive, one-on-one help to help you navigate the lifestyle more confidently and independently.
We set the way. Our support-coordinator services made it easy and convenient.