NDIS Functional Capacity Assessment Training

Functional capacity assessments (FCA) can assist people in accessing the NDIS services, supporting them with the NDIS plan reviews and with preplanning for life transitions. This, for example, may include establishing how functional challenges would affect the transition to a new accommodation, employment, or lifestyle changes.

The NDIS website lists a number of most appropriate treating health professionals that can provide functional evidence to NDIS, with social workers being specifically named in the areas of psychosocial and 'other' disabilities.

PLEASE NOTE: This training is specially designed for social workers and is social work specific in its nature. If you are a developmental educator, please access our multidisciplinary training here:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/functional-capacity-asessment-md-tickets-571519679747

If your professional background is different from social work or developmental education, please consult with your professional board or association to confirm, if NDIS functional capacity assessments are within your scope of practice. Please do this prior to registering for our multidisciplinary training (as per link above).

The completion of the FCA report requires both, discipline-specific and multidisciplinary skills and knowledge of assessment domains and tools. An average FCA completed by social workers consists of 16-25 pages and encompasses discipline-specific psychosocial assessment, strength assessment as well as the assessment of presenting risks and challenges. Accordingly, functional capacity assessment reports by social workers present information about health, physical, cognitive, mental health, social, interpersonal, cultural, and environmental areas that are analysed from the social work and multidisciplinary perspectives. The functional capacity information obtained in the process of assessment is cross-validated by a range of standardised, evidence-based assessment instruments that are recommended by the NDIS as the best practice in evidence.

H-L Therapy Functional Capacity Assessment Training is based on years of clinical assessment experience and provides a comprehensive framework, knowledge, and insight from the practitioner's perspective. It covers the indicators for Functional Capacity Assessments by social workers. professional and NDIS guidelines that inform our practice in this area, the assessment domains, the type of discipline-specific and multidisciplinary assessment instruments that may be used for cross-validation of results, and the discussion on what information is useful to include in each FCA report. After completing the training, participants will be able to

• Define a rationale behind Functional Capacity Assessments

• Demonstrate understanding of the NDIS and profession-specific guidelines and knowledge base that guides and supports our practice in this area.

• Demonstrate a practical knowledge about functional domains

• Define different types of Functional Capacity Assessments

• Understand how the NDIS principles of reasonable and necessary are fitting in the context of the Functional Capacity Assessment

• Demonstrate an understanding about different discipline-specific and multidisciplinary disability and mental health assessment instruments that can be used to validate information provided in functional capacity assessment reports.

• Apply a holistic framework for assessing and organising functional capacity information

• Demonstrate practical knowledge for conducting Functional Capacity Assessments and writing comprehensive FCA reports.

• Following the training, all participants will be able to download post training information package, directly from Eventbrie. The package includes a copy of the presentation slides, a list of FCA resources, references, and easily modified FCA template.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

• The morning FCA training sessions start at 9am and run for 3.5 hours until 12.30pm
• The afternoon FCA sessions start at 4.00pm and run for 3.5 hours until 7.30pm

All these are South Australian (Adelaide) times. At times participants may have incorrect times set up in their Eventbrite accounts or for some reason the time displayed in their ticket may be incorrect Please check these South Australian times against your Time Zone.

INSTRUCTIONS TO DOWNLOAD YOUR POST-TRAINING MATERIALS

Your post-training materials would be available to all training attendees directly from the Eventbrite Online Event Page and immediately following your training

1. From your registration email, please click the red View the Event button. This would lead you directly to your Eventbrite Online Event Page that is only available to training attendees.
2. Scroll down the page until you see a blue link that says POST TRAINING PACKAGE FOR DOWNLOADING
3. Click on this link to access and download all post training materials
4. You would also find a link to our post -training survey and we would really appreciate your feedback.
5. The link to our Facebook community practice group is also included and you are welcome to join in.

ABOUT PRESENTER: This online event is conducted by Alicja Weidner / Principal Therapist and Director from H-L Therapy. Alicja has over 20 years of experience conducting a wide range of multidisciplinary, psychosocial, mental health, and functional assessments during her employment in a range of government and private health and mental health settings, disability services, community and acute health, mental health, rehabilitation settings and aged care services, including aged care assessment teams (ACAT).

H-L THERAPY - BRIEF SUMMARY. H-L Therapy has been established in 2016 and continues to support adults with mental health conditions with Mental Health Treatment Plans, privately paying clients, and NDIS participants, mostly with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities and people with neurodiverse needs. Apart from providing customised therapeutic services, H-L Therapy social work clinicians also conduct regular comprehensive biopsychosocial mental health reviews and functional capacity assessments as a part of their service offerings for NDIS participants.

IMPORTANT

Once you complete your registration, please retain your original email from Eventbrite which would allow you to access your Online Event Page (click the red button which says: 'View the event' which would lead you there. Once you access your Online Event Page you will find the link to the event as well as all the training package and other supporting information. Regular reminders about the event are also scheduled and will be emailed closer to the event date.