Finding & Managing Support Workers for Crohn's Disease & Inflammatory Bowel Disease
How support workers help with Crohn's Disease & Inflammatory Bowel Disease, how to find the right one on Novida, and how to manage them well under your NDI
Support workers provide the hands-on, everyday help that makes an NDIS plan real — personal care, getting out into the community, and building daily-living skills. This guide covers what they do for Crohn's Disease & Inflammatory Bowel Disease, how to find the right person, and how to manage them well.
What support workers do for Crohn's Disease & Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Crohn's disease is a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) — a group of conditions, along with ulcerative colitis, in which the immune system causes long-term inflammation of the digestive tract. Crohn's can affect…
Finding the right support worker
The right match matters as much as the right skills. On Novida you can:
Managing your support workers
However you engage them, a few things keep support working well:
Self-managing, plan-managing or agency
How you manage your plan affects which workers you can use: self-managed and plan-managed participants can engage independent workers as well as agencies, while NDIA-managed plans use registered providers. See "NDIS…