CHCDIS021 - Prepare for NDIS support coordination

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Unit code: CHCDIS021 | Study level: TAFE
Credit points
N/A
Location
City Campus
Footscray Nicholson
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to work effectively in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) system by meeting job requirements and working with stakeholders.This unit applies to individuals who work with people with disability in a range of community services and health contexts. Work performed requires some discretion and judgement and may be carried out under direct, indirect or remote supervision.

Assessment

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Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • manage one conflict of interest
  • refer one matter outside scope of own job role
  • build a relationship with a provider.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) system relevant to support coordination:
  • National and State/Territory legislation and statutory bodies
  • NDIS Code of Conduct
  • NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
  • rights-based context
  • support categories
  • NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits
  • NDIS service agreements
  • NDIS roles and responsibilities:

    Local Area Coordinator (LAC)
    delegate
    community partner
    provider
    agency
    Coordinator of Supports (COS)
    Supported Independent Living (SIL)

  • funding models:
  • types:

    NDIS reasonable and necessary framework
    general health system funding including Medicare

  • access
  • eligibility
  • service types
  • funding mechanisms
  • intersection of multi-agency supports
  • stakeholder roles and responsibilities:
  • participants
  • service providers
  • funding bodies
  • organisational policies and procedures relevant to providing support coordination
  • support coordination:
  • levels of support coordination
  • support coordination process
  • methods for accessing informal, community and funded supports
  • types of service providers and service options
  • support practices:
  • person-centred
  • human rights based
  • duty of care
  • dignity of risk
  • privacy and confidentiality
  • benefits and risks for the participant of registered and non-registered service providers:
  • level of care
  • availability
  • location of support
  • restrictions in organisations due to industrial arrangements
  • process for engaging with:
  • disability service providers
  • non disability service providers
  • government
  • participants and their supports
  • support coordination job role expectations:
  • professional boundaries
  • responsibilities and accountabilities
  • scope of practice and parameters within the NDIS framework
  • conflict of interest and how to manage
  • role and content of NDIS Practice Standards
  • code of conduct
  • time management
  • NDIS plans:
  • plan implementation process
  • plan management process
  • purpose
  • key contents
  • methods for identifying services to meet goals and needs
  • budgeting
  • financial management
  • address change of circumstances
  • reporting and recording requirements for NDIS reports
  • common terms used in NDIS support coordination.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the VU Polytechnic and/or via the Victoria University Polytechnic e-Learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate IV in Disability Support
CHC43121 | Certificate iv | Duration:

Refer to the course page for information on how to apply for the course. VU takes care to ensure the accuracy of this unit information, but reserves the right to change or withdraw courses offered at any time. Please check that unit information is current with the Student Contact Centre.

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