What is a support plan?

A support plan is a document the clinician supporting you creates to document the current intervention foci, goals and strategies of support.

It serves multiple purposes:

1. Ensure developmental goals are in place and intervention is measured enabling evidenced based practice.

2. Time for the clinician to think about you and the next steps towards your goals and document these. This enables the clinician time to review your needs, think about you and unpack the relationship of challenge and developmental processes of building skills.

3. Strategies of support and development are listed and you are trained in these within sessions.

4. A dedicated document to discuss and review.

Just like a doctor or a teacher, an allied health professional needs time outside of your sessions to think about your skills, challenges and presentation in order to devise a plan for intervention. Without this time, the allied health professional does not have the time to stop and ensure your process of intervention is customised to you.

Costs

Yes support plans cost and may take away from an added face to face session however they are vital in ensuring intervention is evidenced based and customised to you by allowing the clinician time to think about your case and presentation. The costs of the support plan, cover the creation, strategy lists and reviews every 5 weeks.

As an allied health professional, your session is 1 hour out of 168 hours of your week and a support plan ensure you know the game plan for the services we are providing and are the leader of the team rather than a medical bystander.