Physiotherapy and the NDIS (National Disability Service)
At Fountain Gate Physiotherapy we provide the opportunity for you to use your NDIS funding how you feel best. As a registered NDIS provider we are able to see self-managed, plan managed, or agency managed clients.
We are able to provide in home or in clinic therapy to achieve your goals. We will work with your carers, other therapists, care and plan managers to acheive the best possible outcome.
Our goal is to increase your independence, well being and community involvement.
Disabilities we can assist with include:
- Amputations
- Mental illness associated disability
- Neurological conditions such as Muscular Dystrophy, Motor Neurone Disease(MND),Parkinson's Disease(PD),Multiple Sclerosis(MS),Alzheimer's
- Developmental Delay
- Spinal Cord Injury(SCI) such as paraplegia, quadriplegia, hemiplegia
- Acquired brain injury(ABI)
- Stroke
Benefits of registered providers
To be registered as an NDIS provider, Fountain Gate Physiotherapy needed to apply to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (NDIS Commission). We were successfully audited against the NDIS Practice Standards, and have committed to meet and adhere to the NDIS Code of Conduct and support their workers to meet its requirements.
For us to have been approved we need to:
- have an internal complaints and incident management system that supports participants;
- notify the NDIS commission all reportable incidents;
- ensure all workers have a valid NDIS screening certificate and other registrations/insurances are up to date;
- have an in-house complaints management and resolution system and support participants who need to make a complaint,
- have an in-house incident management system and notify the NDIS Commission of reportable incidents.
Being endorsed by the NDIS, you know wer will meet a high level of service and safety standards.
Home Visits
We are able to travel to visit you at your home for therapy sessions. In home visits can be more convenient and relaxing for the client. Fountain Gate Physiotherapy is able to provide home visits to the following suburbs.
We can visit suburbs including most of the City of Casey and parts of the Cardinia Shire such as:
- Narre Warren
- Narre Warren North
- Beaconsfield
- Narre Warren South
- Berwick
- Doveton
- Hampton Park
- Lynbrook
- Harkaway
- Hallam
- Eumemmerring
- Endeavour Hills
- Lyndhurst
- Cranbourne
- Officer
- Pakenham
This list is not exhaustive and some nearby suburbs can be serviced.
Benefits of in clinic therapy
Having therapy in the clinic has a number of benefits for clients under the NDIS (National Disability Service). By being in clinic travel costs are not added allowing you to use your NDIS funding for therapy. If the clinic is located near you then this could be a good option for you.
In the clinic we have treatment rooms that allow manual techniques such as massage to be carried out. Being on a treatment bed is more comfortable for both the client and the therapist.
The clinic also has a fully equipped rehabilitation gym. It isn't possible for this equipment to always be available in your own home. Furthermore, the NDIS does not fund gym memberships. Exercise supervised by a physiotherapist can be funded through the NDIS.
How to get an NDIS appointment?
For an appointment, simply call the clinic or book online (only for in clinic appointments).
We do have a referral form for NDIS clients that is best to complete prior to the appointment. We can email it to you when you book.
This form provides us with all the information required for billing, what your goals are and where you would prefer your therapy sessions either at home or at the clinic. We can then bill you directly either after each appointment or monthly (for self managed) or invoice your plan manager.
