Complex Home Modifications
This one-day workshop focuses on deepening your skills in complex design principles, advanced knowledge of legislative requirements and documentation. Ideal for those supporting clients through the NDIS and other funding schemes. The workshop will equip you with the skills to justify modifications, solve design challenges, and produce high-quality, compliant reports.
Program Overview
As the complexity of environmental modifications increases, so does the need for a robust understanding of design legislation, advanced documentation, and effective communication of design concepts.
This one-day workshop provides a comprehensive, practical exploration of the legislative, clinical, and documentation skills essential for safe and effective environmental modification practice.
Through real-world case examples, hands-on activities, and structured clinical reasoning tools, you will refine your ability to design, justify, and communicate complex home modification solutions.
Whether you work within the NDIS or other funding schemes, this workshop will equip you with the skills, confidence and clarity needed to deliver safe, compliant, and cost-effective home modifications for your clients/ participants.
What You Will Learn - Key Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Understand key legislation, building requirements, and the National Construction Code relevant to complex home modifications.
- Identify what constitutes reasonable and necessary modifications under funding schemes such as the NDIS.
- Apply structured clinical reasoning to assess needs and guide complex home modification design.
- Understand documentation requirements to support complex modification proposals
- Communicate design concepts effectively using written explanations, diagrams, and conceptual drawings.
- Solve practical design challenges through case-based learning and real-world examples.
Why Attend This Workshop?
- Extend your skills and knowledge in environmental modifications
- Strengthen your confidence in working with complex cases where multiple risks, constraints, and design considerations intersect.
- Learn through hands-on examples, real-world scenarios and case study discussion that will strengthen your understanding of legislative principles and documentation strategies to life.
- Enhance your ability to justify modifications as reasonable and necessary, streamline your documentation, and collaborate more effectively with builders and assessors, leading to improved outcomes for clients / participants
- Receive training aligned with the OTA Capability Framework – Supporting People with Environmental and Home Modifications , supporting your professional growth and competence
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Occupational therapists with experience in complex modifications. You need to have completed the Environmental Home Modification - Basics course or have experience of all the basics as this course assumes prior knowledge.
DATE:
Saturday 24th October 2026
TIME:
9.00am - 5:00pm
Registration from 8.30am-9.00am
VENUE:
Sydney CBD (Venue to be confirmed)
CPD HOURS:
Total CPD claimable workshop hours: 7.5
Please allow 48 hours for your CPD Certificate to be loaded in your CPD Tracker after course completion.
ACCESS:
Participants will be able to access the course materials online in their OTA account for the event and for a further 12 weeks after the event
WORKSHOP DETAILS
Please note: all participants must bring scale ruler, pencils, rubbers and retractable tape measure.
REGISTRATION FEES & INCLUSIONS
EARLY BIRD FEES: Register on or before 31 August 2026
OTA Member: $580
Student New Graduate: $520
Non Member: $750
(All pricing is inclusive of GST)
STANDARD FEES: Book on or after 1 September 2026
OTA Member: $640
Student / New Graduate: $580
Non Member: $840
(All pricing is inclusive of GST)
*Registrations close at 11:55pm on 12th October 2026
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INCLUSIONS:
Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided. Please note any dietary requirements are confirmed at time of registration.
DISCLAIMER
All information is correct at the time of publication. OTA reserves the right to alter or delete items from the CPD calendar as required, and takes no responsibility for any errors, omissions and changes.
All workshop resources including copies of the presentation, along with all supporting documents and links are not for distribution and are the property of the presenter.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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CONTACT US
Please email info@otaus.com.au or phone 1300 682 878
Presented By
Sandi Lightfoot-Collins
Sandi graduated from Sydney University in 1984. Since that time, she has had broad clinical experience within paediatrics, aged care, community, and mental health and NDIS. She has presented nationally on home modifications, across various funding bodies and complexity. Presentations on environmental modifications have occurred both locally and internationally. These skills have seen her work with local councils on access and modifications, as well as working as a planner for redevelopments of new build/retro fit of a hospital. Sandi has taught extensively into the undergraduate and masters course within the OT faculty at Sydney University and maintains a private consultancy.