Functional Capacity Assessments

An NDIS Functional Capacity Assessment provides a detailed understanding of how a person’s disability impacts their daily living and community engagement.

It focuses on more than just a diagnosis, evaluating how the individual functions across key areas including self-care, communication, mobility, social interaction, and learning.

This assessment helps identify the supports a person may need to live independently, pursue their goals, and participate meaningfully in everyday life. It's a crucial step in ensuring NDIS funding reflects a participant's unique needs and circumstances.

Functional Capacity Assessments

Purpose: To assist the NDIS in identifying a participant’s strengths, challenges, and the types of supports that will help them live independently and work toward their personal goals.

What’s Assessed: The assessment explores how the individual functions across key areas:

  • Daily Living Skills – e.g. dressing, cooking, hygiene

  • Communication Abilities – verbal and non-verbal skills

  • Social & Emotional Functioning – relationships, self-regulation

  • Cognitive & Learning Abilities – attention, memory, problem-solving

Outcome: The results help inform the development of a personalised NDIS plan, guiding funding and support recommendations tailored to each person’s needs.

Provider Support Plans

A Provider Support Plan outlines how we’ll deliver personalised care and support under the NDIS framework. It acts as a collaborative roadmap that ensures each participant’s goals, needs, and preferences are understood and reflected in the services they receive. With a focus on consistency and quality, the plan supports participants to build independence, confidence, and overall wellbeing through tailored, person-centred care.

Key Objectives

  • Clarify Support Delivery: Specifies the type, frequency, and duration of supports your practice will offer.

  • Align with Participant Goals: Ensures that services are purposefully connected to the goals outlined in the participant’s NDIS plan.

  • Coordinate Care: Encourages communication between the participant, their family, and other providers for holistic support.

  • Ensure Quality and Consistency: Outlines standards for staff training, service delivery, and tailored support strategies.

  • Monitor and Review: Provides a framework for ongoing reflection, evaluation, and updates to the plan as the participant’s needs evolve.