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March 2022
Collaborative Support Approach: Working together to help young people leave aged care
Tags: health professional, residential aged care (RAC), support coordinator
Description:
The Collaborative Support Approach Tool outlines the cooperation between Residential Aged Care staff, Support Coordinators, Allied Health Professionals and other stakeholders, working together to assist a younger person leave aged care.
This tool details the tasks and responsibilities – the “who does what” when assisting a younger person to leave RAC and live in the community.
This resource will be useful to RAC, NDIS providers and other stakeholders working at this interface.

October 2021
UpSkill Provider Directory
Tags: allied health, disability support, health professional, support coordinator
Description:
Find support coordinators and allied health professionals who are right for you.
The UpSkill Provider Directory gives you access to profiles of support coordinators and NDIS allied health professionals with a wide range of specific skills and experience. Each provider has completed UpSkill training with the Summer Foundation on topics such as how to help you navigate the NDIS, specialist disability accommodation, housing, leaving aged care and leaving hospital.

February 2021
Housing Needs and Preferences to Support Discharge
Tags: health professional, hospital discharge, housing
Citation:
The Housing Needs and Preferences to Support Discharge Guide and Template are for health professionals to support a person with disability to describe the housing and support they want and need so that they can be discharged to suitable housing.

July 2020
Capacity building framework training manual
Tags: health professional, health system, hospital discharge, NDIS participant, training
Description:
In striving for best practice outcomes for NDIS participants, a health service may use this resource to provide a framework in the provision of information, training and mentoring to staff for practice change.

June 2020
NDIS foundations training videos
Tags: health professional, hospital discharge, NDIS, training
Description:
These videos for health services are part of the NDIS Capacity building framework training manual.
- Embedding Practice Change: Health Services and the NDIS
- Introduction to the NDIS (Webinars 1–4)
- NDIS Foundations (Modules 1–3)
- Streamlining Health & NDIS for Better Discharge Outcomes

March 2020
NDIS secondary consultation framework
Tags: health professional, hospital discharge
Description:
This resource describes how an NDIS secondary consultation framework can guide health clinicians in sustainably building their knowledge and practice expertise, to achieve positive discharge outcomes for people eligible for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

March 2020
Internal and external escalation sample guideline
Tags: health professional, hospital discharge
Description:
This guideline is relevant for health services staff working in a health setting with people with disability aged under 65. When assisting people with disability, there may be circumstances where internal and/or external interface practice issues occur that require escalation. Download a Word document version of the flowchart

March 2020
Health service FAQs
Tags: health professional, hospital discharge, training
Description:
All health services are building their capacity in working with the NDIS and people with disability aged under 65. This resource contains health’ frequently asked questions (FAQs), and answers relating to a number of different topics.
Health services may choose to download the Word version of this resource and add their own FAQs to maximise local relevance.

October 2019
Introduction to the NDIS for health professionals
Tags: health professional, hospital discharge, NDIS, training
Description:
This is a series of 4 webinars which cover the Introduction to the NDIS for health professionals.

July 2018
NDIS readiness – a toolkit for hospitals
Tags: community, health professional, health system, hospital discharge, NDIS plan, training
Description:
This toolkit includes tailored resources for health practitioners that cover the entire hospital journey for people with disabilities, from admission to discharge back into the community.

July 2018
THE NDIS: A new landscape for people who acquire a disability
Tags: health professional, hospital discharge, NDIS
Description:
The NDIS is creating new possibilities for people with disability, but is a whole new world for health care professionals.

April 2018
Discharge planning toolkit
Tags: health professional, health system, hospital discharge, rehabilitation, training
Description:
This toolkit provides targeted information for hospital discharge staff, and staff in acute and rehabilitation hospital settings, relating to the discharge of people aged under 65 years who have acquired a disability:

November 2016
Vicki Wilkinson: Pathway into a Nursing Home
Tags: health professional, hospital discharge, nursing home, residential aged care (RAC), support coordinator
Description:
If Vicki had more health support at crucial times following her injury her four year stay in a nursing home could have been avoided.