NDIS Support Coordination
NDIS Support Coordination & Psychosocial Recovery Coach
Rainbow Care has been a NDIS registered Support Coordination service since 2021. Rainbow Care prides itself on providing strength-based, person-centred services to support you to make your own decisions.
Our support coordinator will work with you to:
- Break down information and options into plain language or in a way that works for you
- Support you in getting the most out of your NDIS plan and supports
- Learn about other support pathways available
- Plan ahead to monitor your plan budget
- Help you to implement your plan and prepare for plan reviews
Other areas our support coordinators can assist with:
Psychosocial Recovery Coach
Recognising and embracing the possibilities for recovery and wellbeing created by the inherent strength and capacity of all people experiencing mental health issues.
This is a person who has a qualification in mental health studies or equivalent and lived experience with mental health. Depending on how your NDIS plan is built this role can either work in collaboration with your Support Coordinator or as an independent service. Our Rainbow Coach can offer peer support to build on your strengths, take control of your life and address any barriers that might exist to accessing supports and achieving your goals.
Life Transition Planning Including Mentoring Peer-Support and Individual Skill Development
Falls under support category Increased Social & Community Participation (09). This support category allows participants to take part in skills-based learning to develop independence in accessing the community.
This support item, which includes mentoring, peer-support and individual skill development, is designed to establish volunteer assistance within the participant’s home or community to develop skills. For instance, assistance in attending appointments, shopping, overcoming barriers in taking part in social activities, and maintaining contact with others.
Assistance With Accommodation And Tenancy Obligations
Falls under support category Improved Living Arrangements (08). The supports in this support category help participants to increase their ability to obtain and retain appropriate accommodation.
This support item is to guide, prompt, or undertake activities to ensure the participant obtains or retains appropriate accommodation. This may include assisting to apply for a rental tenancy or to undertake tenancy obligations in line with the participant’s tenancy agreement.
Assistance With Decision Making Daily Planning and Budgeting
Falls under support category Improved Daily Living (15). Provision of time limited support to assist a person to develop and maintain daily budget, including assisting in planning purchases.
ILO Stage 1: Exploration and Design
This first stage is all about exploring and designing your support package. It’s about helping you work out where you want to live, who with, what support you’ll need and who will support you.
Specialist Support Coordination
Specialist Support Coordinators assist participants to reduce complexity in their support environment and overcome barriers to connecting with broader systems of supports as well as funded supports. Depending on individual circumstances, a specialist Support Coordinator may also work with participants and stakeholders to design a complex service plan or action plan that focuses on how all the stakeholders in a participant’s life will interact to resolve barriers and promote appropriate plan implementation. Our Specialist Support Coordinators all have particular areas they specialise in depending on their qualifications and experiences.
Supported Employment
A Support Coordinator who has an existing relationship with a participant can contribute to
employment success by ensuring the voice of the participant is heard in choosing employment
options, helping a participant to understand their obligations to an employer and their new
workplace and coordinating supporting services to facilitate their ongoing employment.
Many participants with psychosocial disability will have a Recovery Coach. Preparation for
employment and starting in a new workplace can be stressful. The Recovery Coach will be able to
advise the employment provider and a prospective employer on how best to assist the participant
to manage new or different stressors. The Recovery Coach can also ensure that other support and clinical services are responsive to the changes in the participant’s life as they commence employment and successfully engage in ongoing employment.
Our NDIS Support Coordination and Recovery Coach services are available throughout both Moreton Bay Region, Sunshine Coast and Gympie Region.
If you believe we are the right match for you, but you live outside our service regions we will provide a remote support coordination service to anywhere in the country.
