NDIS Client Advocacy at Quad Care
If you’re an NDIS client on the Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay or Somerset Regions, we got you.
Over the last ten years since the inception of the NDIS we have watched the disability space change like a two-year-olds undies. Rules and updates are in and out as fast as we can keep up, then we finally understand it, and the Act changes or a change of government graces us with it’s presence yet again full of changes and uncertainty.
The one thing we all can all rely on with the NDIS scheme is that change is guaranteed. We should also be able to rely on the fact, that the people around us supporting us and delivering services have good documentation, and good records. So, when things change, we’ve got data and information we can pull on to support what we need.
Advocacy is never one person’s job. It’s the team, from the reporting requirements of the NDIS registered organisation to the support worker delivering the services and the Allied Health in between. It is everyone’s job, to contribute to better outcomes, and we do that with consistent reporting, with key details that relate specifically to that person’s goals, and being able to pull it all together quickly and correctly when the time comes to fight the good fight.
(We’ve also written a great article on how to get more NDIS funding, you can read here).
Quad Care’s Occupational Therapists, who are working with our clients also receiving disability supports are part of the team, implementing therapies in line with the persons goals, and where their at at that point in their life. Our Team of disability support staff are providing feedback to the Occupational Therapists as changes so they can document things for when it builds up to needing a review.
Quad Care’s Exercise Physiologists build therapy plans (learn what these are here) with clients to maintain and kick goals related to disability. Whether it’s being able to just get up and down the stairs or, sit and stand on from the toilet, through to training for a 10k run with a new prosthetic. They then feedback to the team of disability support workers at Quad Care who help to support the person to achieve their goals.
Quad Care’s Speech and Language therapists (Speech Pathologists or ‘speechies’), are also on hand, cohesive and instrumental staff in teams for clients with communication and swallow goals. Whether it’s sourcing and trialling augmented communication (read more about that here), building suitable and adaptable mealtime management plans that improve quality of life and reduce risk. Our Speechies are part of our cohesive Allied Health and disability support teams, advocating for clients needs, NDIS reviews and changes to the persons normal.
Unfortunately, in this day and age, ten years into the scheme, we’re still fighting for the basics -showers, visits to appointments, exercise routines and things to keep us strong and healthy and out of bed each day. We’re fighting for a good life with disability. One so far removed from even just ten years ago before the NDIS inception. We are advocating for continual improvement and better outcomes, like people with disability living well above the poverty line with comfortable lives like so many other Australians.
If you need extra help advocating for yourself or your person, you can find more information about the DSS Disability Advocacy Support Helpline below –
National Disability Advocacy Program | Department of Social Services
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