About SchemeWise services

Life Transitions

Under the NDIS you may be able to get support to assist you with life transitions. You can do this if you have plan options like - Improved Daily Living, Health and Wellbeing, Increased Social and Community Participation, or Improved Living Arrangements. These areas all offer ways to get 'focused' help from a support coordinator. SchemeWise is a registered NDIS provider providing transition-based services. We can help with issues like where you live (your home, moving, or find your own home), school changes, moving from school to work, or changes where you live/work because your condition is changing. No matter what your transition is... SchemeWise can help! Other ways to get help with transitions include nursing, counselling and psychosocial recovery supports.

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I called SchemeWise to get help moving from school to work. I wasn't sure what to do, where t go or how to get the right support, but SchemeWise was able to help me move through all of it. they were wonderful - they met with me, understood what I wanted ot achieve and then we planned together on how to make it happen. I now have a supported job and love going to work each day!

Once i had a job and had a chance to make new friends I also wanted to move out of home and live with them. I got more help from SchemeWise for this too. I love my new home! Me and my friends have so much fun and we have the supports and assistance we need so our families don't need to worry about us too. Best of all we know if something needs to change and we aren't sure what to do... we can always call SchemeWise again! Thanks for all your help.

May (18 years)

Nursing – Asessments and Support

Nursing assessment and support is accessed under CAPACITY-Improved Daily Living or under CORE-Daily Life parts of your NDIS plan. Assessment can help with health and/or disability information and how these affect you. Having an assessment can help you talk with the NDIS about extra supports or different ones you may need in the future. Assessments can also help to improve the health information you have by including functional and/or capacity information so they NDIS can really appreciate your circumstances. NDIS coordinators may find using a nursing assessment report helpful if they cannot access an OT for a person quickly too. Nursing assessment reports are often more cost effective compared to OT reports and can cover many of the same things (not equipment or AT related though). SchemeWise nurses can also complete mental health assessments for participants whom may be seeking future support from a counsellor or psychologist. SchemeWise nurses can also provide an assessment report as part of an access request to enter the NDIS (this is a private fee-for-service item). SchemeWise nursing support is a little different - support is about gaining new skills that both you and your family or carers can use to support you. For example, SchemeWise nurses can provide raining for feeding, diabetes management, complex care, etc. Another way nursing support can help is for training with continence and related plans or even providing support for catheter changes (for example, supra-pubic catheters).

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Initially the NDIS said no to me getting some supports to help me live independently from my parents. I got a nursing assessment from SchemeWise which provided more advice on how my disability impacted me and what I needed to live independently and safely. My doctor also wrote a letter after seeing the nursing assessment.

I submitted the nurse assessment and doctors letter to the NDIS and I now have a plan in place and am looking to be independent from mum and dad soon. I love them dearly, but they are getting old and I wanted to show them I could live by myself with the right help and supports for me. The SchemeWise nurses were great!

Jennifer, 20 years

Counselling

Counselling is a person-centred therapeutic service under the NDIS. To use counselling you MUST have Improved Daily Living funding in your NDIS plan. Counselling focuses on allowing you to work through issues in a private and confidential manner to build your capacity and be able to cope with life challenges. Your carer(s) and family can also access a counselling service under your NDIS plan (so their capacity to support you is maintained). This is a way of ensuring the important people around you are looked after too. Counselling can help with mental health problems, life transitions, grief, all kinds of trauma & violence (past and present), specific conditions like autism and brain injury, communication and coping skills, building self-esteem and confidence, promoting behaviour change and maintaining/developing relationships. Best of all SchemeWise counsellors can come to you... this is because we know that people living with disability, their carer(s) or family can find it hard to travel for therapy. Our counsellors can also meet you in the community at a place comfortable for you... like a park or coffee shop.

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My mum and me both saw a SchemeWise counsellor to help with my anxiety. The counsellor helped us break things down and helped me understand and manage my triggers. I could not have done that by myself... The counsellor also helped mum understand what anxiety looked like and how it affected me and what thins she could do to support me when I wasn't coping.

The counsellor was very good with Tom. They took the time to really understand what was important to him and make clear how he could manage his anxiety day-to-day. Even better, Tom began to look forward to friends and school once again. He continues to see his counsellor and they celebrate his successes together. His anxiety doesn't rule his life anymore.

Helen (34y) & Tom (15y)

Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy is a person-centred therapeutic service under the NDIS. To use an OT you MUST have Improved Daily Living funding in your NDIS plan. It is also possible to use CORE funds if you have 'Activities of Daily Life' funding (most people do). Occupational Therapists focus on allowing you to work, live and train across various daily 'occupational settings.' They can help people learn new skills (like manage sensory issues), learn daily life skills like budgeting and money, adapt to cognitive or physical injuries, as well as script for adaptive equipment from simple (like a walking stick) to complex options (like a powered wheelchair, powered bed with pressure care management technologies, etc). Best of all SchemeWise Occupational Therapists come to you... this is because we know that people living with disability, their carer(s) or family can find it hard to travel and receive appropriate support. Often an OT, will need to see and trial equipment in a person's particular environment too.

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I saw a SchemeWise OT to help with my home and mobility needs. I'd had some problems in the past and really wanted to get some things sorted. The OT really understood the NDIS processes and explained to me each step what was needed. I undertook some trials which they help with and then they provided a great report which the NDIS accepted. I finally got my new wheelchair and can now use my kitchen much better. My service was professional, fun to engage with, and supportive. My SchemeWise OT really worked with me and was very approachable.

Daniel (30y)

Psychosocial Recovery Coaching

Psychosocial Recovery Coaching is a NEW person-centred service under the NDIS. To use recovery coaching you MUST have Coordination of Support funding in your NDIS plan as it is included under this registration category. You can then obtain a support coordinator OR recovery coach - but NOT both. You must choose one or the other. SchemeWise people are all diploma or degree trained offering a high quality and assured coaching service for people. A recovery coach, in a lot of ways, is much like a sporting coach... the emphasis is on bringing out the best in a person by working with them toward personal improvement. While a sport coach focuses on physical endurance and skills, a recovery coach focus on cognitive, thinking and planning skills to help people recover from mental health problems (or learn what to do to stay healthy, practice wellness in their daily lives, and reduce their disability experience, so they can participate more). SchemeWise recovery coaches can come to you... Our coaches can also meet you in the community at a place comfortable for you... like a park or coffee shop.
PRIVATE COACHING: People living with a persisting mental health problem (more than 2 years) can also access this service on a private basis. They do NOT need to be NDIS participants. On a private basis, the service operates by people purchasing blocks of support time, which they then use as they step through the coaching process. Coaching continues as blocks are renewed or ends at the conclusion of a block. (NOTE: time includes direct service, service notes, calls, emails, tele-support and liaison with other parties (e.g. your doctor) as well as travel). Blocks must be used within a certain period of time or are forfeited.

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I saw a SchemeWise recovery coach to help with my moods. My coach helped me to develop a plan and a toolkit to allow me to better cope and keep positive. Coaching helped me understand and manage my triggers, get on top of my life needs, connect with others and for them to understand how to help me when I was becoming unwell. I have been able to make new friends and build better connections socially. I could not have done all that by myself...

Brenda (26y)
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