Finding & Managing Support Workers for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
How support workers help with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, how to find the right one on Novida, and how to manage them well under your NDIS plan.
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 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, how to find the right person, and how to manage them well.
What support workers do for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops in some people following exposure to a traumatic event — actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence. PTSD is characterised by four symptom clusters:…
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…