STARZ HEALTH IS AN APPROVED NDIS PROVIDER COVERING SYDNEY AND WOLLONGONG
AND NOW WE HAVE NEW OFFICE IN MELBOURNE OPEN AND OUR NDIS SERVICE IS AVAILABLE IN REGION!
Interested in joining our services? Begin your steps to best care here.
NDIS APPROVED SERVICES
SUPPORT COORDINATION
Our Team will support you to understand and implement the funded supports as specified in your plan of care. Our team will facilitate and connect you to the community, stakeholders and other service providers. Starz Health will support you to build life skills and connect you to services, negotiate with providers and advocate for you regarding costs of services. Our team will ensure service agreements and service bookings are completed. As part of Support Coordination, our team will provide but not limited to the following services:
- Support and assistance to ensure you have the ability to exercise choice and control, coordinate supports and access your local community.
- To assist in planning ahead to prepare for your plan review.
- To assist and also ensuring that you are getting the most out of your funded supports.
SPECIALISED DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION
Some clients will require specialist housing solutions and specialised care solutions to ensure individualised care and that they receive optimal care in their extreme functional impairment or very high support/care needs.
Starz Health will ensure and assist participants with very high support requirements to be arranged for Specialised Disability Accommodation. This appropriate accommodation will ensure that clients are provided with personalised care.
THERAPEUTIC SUPPORT
The NDIS funds reasonable and necessary supports that assist participants to reach their goals, objectives and aspirations, and to undertake activities to enable the participant’s social and economic participation. At Starz Health, we will support you to identify your individual goals and work towards real outcomes. This is done by ensuring your functional development and the ability to cope by involving our Multidisciplinary Team. Starz Health MDT will enable participants to regain their independence utilising different approaches.
Overview of the services we provide:
Early Intervention
Speech Pathology
Occupational Therapy
Physiotherapy
Psychology, Counselling and Behaviour Support
Support for Restrictive Practices Authorisation Panels
Counselling support
Sensory Processing Training
Positive Behaviour Support Training..
PLAN MANAGEMENT
Plan managing your NDIS funding with Starz Health ensures that you have access to support systems and we will offer you a sense of security and more autonomy over your day to day decisions. Starting and managing an NDIS plan can be stressful and confusing to many participants. Starz Health is run by a dedicated and friendly team ensuring autonomy to our clients. We will ensure personalised financial management and transparency giving you peace of mind.
Our Plan Management support team will assist participants with care planning but not limited to the following aspects:
- Pay your providers for the supports you purchase;
- Help you keep track of your funds;
- Take care of financial reporting for you;
- Depending on your circumstances, we can also help you choose your providers.
PARTICIPATE COMMUNITY
Starz Health will support and assist our clients with daily and life skills. This is done by ensuring participation in the community resulting in participant’s social skills development. We facilitate activities and ensure clients attends community, social and recreational activities.
ASSISTIVE PROD- HOUSEHOLD TASK
Starz Health will ensure that you access to appropriate assistive products and equipment which you are eligible for from NDIS funding and as per your care plans. Household tasks can be made easier with specialised aids and equipment for cooking, cleaning, washing, and home maintenance to ensure you enjoy your life. This includes but not limited to:
Alarms and doorbells.
Adapted clocks.
Programmable memory aids.
Assistive devices for dishwashing and cleaning.
Assistive devices for cooking.
Environmental control units (ECUs).
HOUSEHOLD TASKS
Starz Health will support and assist clients participate in a variety of daily tasks in the household. Our support includes but is not limited to:
- Personal Care.
- Household cleaning
- Lawn and outdoor maintenance.
- Personal Skills Development.
- Dishwashing, clothes washing, linen and ironing, in order to maintain a safe, secure and healthy environment for our clients.
COMMUNITY NURSING CARE
As part of our community Nursing Care, we will provide different care services in the comfort of your home. Our team will make arrangements with Hospital Discharge Planners and we will follow up with clients in their homes to offer the care required.
Our Services include but not limited to:
Specialised and general nursing.
Wound care and management
Continence management
Palliative care.
Medication administration and management.
Peg Feeds.
Tracheostomy care.
Ventilated clients.
Catheter insertion/Care.
Working with the Allied Health Team to ensure care is delivered timely
Post Discharge Care.
HOME MODIFICATION
Home modifications are changes to the structure, layout or fittings of a participant’s home in order to ensure safety, access and comfort in your home. As per the NDIS, Home modifications may be included in your plan if:
As a result of your disability, you may not be reasonably able to access and use frequently used rooms and spaces in your primary residence such as toilet, common rooms etc.
Your primary residence, in its current condition, has significant and adverse impacts on the sustainability of current living and care arrangements; and
A suitably qualified Occupational Therapist has performed an assessment and recommended home modifications, considering all possible alternatives, including the use of equipment..
ASSISTIVE TRAVEL/ TRANSPORT
NDIS participants will generally be able to access funding for transport assistance if they cannot use public transport due to their disability. Starz Health assists participants to access assistive travel/Transport.
ASSIST- PERSONAL ACTIVITIES
Starz Health supports individuals to learn everyday living skills. We provide supported opportunities in a range of activities to achieve this. These activities assist participants to develop independence and social interaction. These activities include, but are not limited to:
Cooking
Cleaning
Paying bills
Budgeting
Living independently
Personal hygiene
ASSIST- LIFE STAGE, TRANSITION
Starz Health as part of the NDIS Assistance-life stage and transition will ensure support coordination. This includes short and long-term supports focussed on strengthening a participant’s ability to coordinate their supports and to assist them to live at home and participate in their community. This includes but not limited to:
Support coordination
Assistance with accommodation and tenancy obligations
Life transition planning mentoring, peer support and personal development
Support and assistance with daily planning, decision making, financial planning and budgeting
ASSIST- LIFE STAGE, TRANSITION
Through the NDIS, Starz Health supports participants to learn everyday living skills resulting in personal development. We ensure this is achieved by implementing a variety of strategies resulting in the development of independence and social interaction. These includes but not limited to:
- Cooking
- Cleaning
- Paying bills
- Budgeting
- Living independently
- Personal hygiene
ACCOMMODATION/ TENANCY
Starz Health through the NDIS offers participants assistance and support services to maintain housing. We offer but not limited to the following support:
Maintaining residences through support and training.
Providing support to clients who live in their own home, or reside in the family home.
Assisting clients to find alternative accommodation at the same time ensuring that participants develop the capacity to do this independently.
By being an Advocate for a client, support negotiating with landlords, mediation, housing conflicts/disputes on behalf of our clients.
Assistance with fortnightly financial planning and budgeting.
Providing and ensuring access to other support services.