Available Services
Our Key Workers and Occupational Therapists are able to provide the following services in a 1:1 setting, face-to-face in our clinic space in Hastings, VIC, or at your kinder, pre-school or school, or via Telehealth.
Occupational Therapy and Key Worker sessions are typically 60 minutes in length, and charged at the rate according to the NDIS price guide.
Early Intervention
Our expert team employs a proactive and personalized Early Intervention approach, offering specialized support and resources to empower children and their families, ensuring a foundation for lifelong success and well-being.
Daily Living Skills
Our tailored programs focus on fostering independence, self-care, routine and adaptive behaviours, ensuring that children and families can confidently navigate daily tasks and thrive in various aspects of their daily living skills.
Fine Motor Skills
We specialize in empowering individuals to enhance their dexterity and coordination through targeted interventions. Our expert programs and resources are designed to cultivate fine motor skills, ensuring our participants can confidently navigate the intricacies of daily tasks and activities.
Careteam Support
Our dedicated team coordinates and facilitates information exchange between families and other care team members. We are able to support you in implementing recommendations provided by other professionals, and support you in sourcing appropriate services.
School Readiness
School Readiness Intervention is key to ensuring a smooth transition for young learners into their educational journey. Our specialised programs focus on equipping children with cognitive, social, and emotional skills needed for a successful start in school, setting the stage for a lifetime of personal achievement and growth.
Navigating NDIS Supports
We are able to assist you in preparation for NDIS plan reviews, recommending services that would benefit you and your childs goals, and ensuring effective and collaborative communication between all of your supports.
NDIS Definition of the Key Worker Model
(Nov, 2020)
A Key Worker is an early childhood intervention professional such as an Early Childhood Special Educator or other paediatric allied health professional. The Key Worker is the main person who is working alongside the family/carer to support the child’s progress towards plan goals. The Key Worker liaises with their team in the child’s life (which can include the parent/carers as well as occupational therapists, speech therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists, social workers and specialist early childhood educators) and other services (e.g. Early Childhood Education and Care centres) working together when working with the family/carer to support the child.
The ‘team’ is brought together by one member, the “key worker”, who is the central contact for the family, and coordinates the communication and sharing of knowledge and skills between the team. The key worker may use a transdisciplinary approach, enacting interventions technically outside their service specialisation, but with the direction and support of the relevant team members, streamlining the points of contact and intervention for young children and families. The key worker changes to meet the specific needs of the child and family at a certain point in time.
The key worker also contributes to coaching and capability building with other adults around the child. Evidence suggests that within teamwork approaches, the greater the interdependence and cooperation between team members, the better the efficiency and ‘climate’ of the team. These practices focus on fewer, stronger relationships where the family is a true partner, and knowledge can be transferred across disciplines, and from specialists to carers and other important adults in the child’s life. In some exceptional circumstances, the key worker may be an extended family member or other professional in the child’s life.
Contact
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