Complex Care – Part 2

The Complex Care (High Intensity Supports) – Part 2 Pathway has been designed to build specialised skills which are required for higher risk supports (also referred to as high intensity supports). This pathway is very important as it will help you and your Disability Support Professionals deliver safe, quality and person-centred supports. It will also help your organisation be compliant with the NDIS Practice Standards.

This pathway will take you on a journey whereby complex care topics are broken down into smaller compartments and built upon to a level of core competency. You will be asked to practice your skills, which will help you retain the important information you have learnt.  Most of complex care topics in this course require a competency assessment to be completed by a relevant qualified professional after the training. It is recommended that you review the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators in line with your Support and Services offered to identify your individualised compliance and audit requirements.

In this pathway, you will learn how to deliver complex bowel care support, urinary catheter support, ventilator support and tracheostomy support for your participants. You will also learn how to administer subcutaneous injections and how to support your participants with complex wounds and pressure injuries.

When a provider is supporting participants who rely on high intensity personal daily activity HIDPA supports, they need to make sure their workers have the skills and knowledge described in the high intensity support skills descriptors. This course covers one of these high intensity daily activity supports. You can access a copy of the high intensity support skills descriptors here.

Note: Registered NDIS providers can only provide the high intensity daily activity supports that are set out in their certificate of registration.