RECORDED WEBINAR SUMMARY

CAN OUR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY MODELS OF PRACTICE FIT AN INSURANCE FUNDING MODEL SUCH AS THE NDIS?

Occupational Therapy Competency Standards refer to Models of Practice such as Keilhofner’s 2008 Model of Human Occupation (MOHO), or Chapparo and Ranka’s 1997 Occupational Performance Model (Australia), as the foundation or basis of our practice. These models share the belief that the person, environment, and occupation all interact to generate the client’s level of function or performance.

As an insurance- based funding model, the NDIS accept responsibility or liability for a specific stated disability rather than considering the interactive model identified for a whole individual. This means that we as therapists are restricted to prescription of interventions for a specific disability rather than for a whole individual. We are often required to determine what can be linked to the “accepted disability” versus what is a “medical condition”, or what has simply fallen into the gaps in between. The questions remain, how do we as therapists stay true to our learnings and foundational beliefs within an insurance- based funding model such as the NDIS? How do we as Occupational Therapists continue to provide client centred best practice when the funding model does not facilitate it?

SUITABLE FOR

Suitable for all career stages 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Compare widely utilised OT Models of Practice, and the current NDIS funding practices, highlighting the inconsistencies between the two.
• Explore methods of holistic client management and how OTs can help facilitate this for their NDIS participants.
• Discuss how we can address the gaps between “best practice” holistic management and the NDIS imposed constraint of “reasonable and necessary”.

PRESENTER

Aimee Prosser

Aimee is the Clinical Operations Manager, and a Senior Occupational Therapist with Recovery Station. While practicing as an Occupational Therapist over the last 17 years Aimee has worked in acute care, rehabilitation, community, aged care, and primary care sectors, and now enjoys working in private practice primarily with NDIS clients.

Aimee has a strong interest in working with clients with neurological impairments/ injuries, and is also a credentialled mental health therapist.

In her management position Aimee currently provides clinical leadership for 26 Occupational Therapists, and an additional 16 multidisciplinary staff from Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, Speech Pathology, and Dietetics, across the Hunter, Central Coast, and Sydney regions.

Aimee has presented at both the OT Australia Aged Care Symposium, and the National OT Conference this year, as well as the local Hunter Occupational Therapists education day.

WEBINAR DETAILS

CPD HOURS:
Total CPD claimable workshop hours: 1

DATE:
This is a recorded webinar session that was held in October 2019

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REGISTRATION FEES & INCLUSIONS

FEES:
OTA Member: $45
OTA Student/ New Graduate Member: $38
Non Member: $64

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