High Intensity Skills Training
Train your team. Sign off competency.
Evidence your obligations, before the audit.
High intensity skills training teaches support workers, carers and participants to safely carry out high intensity daily personal activities, and ends in a formal competency sign-off. An AHPRA-registered nurse delivers the training against the participant’s own plan, then assesses each person and records whether they are competent.
Under the NDIS Practice Standards, workers supporting someone with high intensity daily personal activities must have training that relates specifically to that participant’s needs and the relevant high intensity support skills descriptor. Our nurses deliver that training and do the competency assessment.
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Funding for
Skills training.
Where training is specific to one participant, it may be funded through that participant’s NDIS plan, depending on how the plan is set up. Both pathways are common and we can talk you through which applies to your situation.
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What We Train
Five high intensity daily personal activities, plus two supports that sit outside that list but come up constantly for support teams. Additional supports are available on request. Ask us what you need and we will tell you whether we can deliver it.
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Enteral Feeding Support Training
02
Epilepsy and Seizure Support Training
03
Urinary Catheter Support Training
04
Complex Bowel Care Training
05
Subcutaneous Injection Training
06
Asthma and Anaphylaxis
How the Training Works
We train support workers, carers, and participants themselves where that is appropriate.
Training happens in clinic, at your location, or at the participant’s home, whichever suits the team and the activity. Some of it can be delivered remotely, and that depends on the activity and on what the person already knows and can do. We will tell you honestly which parts have to be face to face.
A nurse delivers the training against the participant’s plan, then formally assesses each person and records the outcome. You get the competency documentation for your files.
Documentation review, remotely. We also review how plans are being put into practice. If you have plans in place and you want to know whether what is written matches what is actually happening, we can look at the documentation and tell you. Useful before an audit. More useful well before an audit.
Competency renewals. Competency is not permanent. Workers leave, plans change, and skills fade when they are not used. We handle renewals as part of the same relationship rather than treating each round as a new engagement.
What the NDIS Practice Standards Ask For
For each participant who relies on high intensity daily personal activities, the quality indicators say the participant is involved in developing their own plan, their health status is reviewed regularly by an appropriately qualified health practitioner with their consent, and workers supporting them have training that relates specifically to that participant’s needs and the relevant high intensity support skills descriptor.
Worth being straight about one thing, because some providers are told otherwise. The Commission does not require these supports to be delivered by a nurse. Training can come from an appropriately qualified health practitioner or from someone who meets the skills descriptor. What it does require is that the training is participant-specific and that you can evidence it.
That is what we deliver, and what the competency record is for.
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If you are a Support Coordinator, LAC officer, Plan Manager or another health care professional and you would like to submit a referral for one of your participants, please select one of the below options.
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12 clinics across NSW & Tasmania
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1800 678 647
Locations
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Available everywhere for everyone.
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Illawarra
Horsely
Dapto
Wollongong
Shellharbour
Albion Park
Kiama
SOUTH COAST
Nowra
Shoalhaven
SOUTH WEST SYDNEY
Moorebank
Liverpool
Warwick Farm
Casula
Chipping Norton
Wattle Grove
Where to Access High Intensity Skills Training
Common Questions About High Intensity Skills Training
What is a high intensity daily personal activity?
Who can receive the training?
What does competency sign-off actually mean?
How often do competencies need renewing?
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Do your trainers have to be nurses?
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