Professionals

We complement clinical care.

Education and functional implementation within scope — for GPs, allied health, support coordinators and referrers.

Our scope

We reinforce your recommendations within an agreed plan, teach skills in real settings, and record actual performance — separating safety from assistance. Assessment, diagnosis and treatment remain yours.

“Supported performance is not automatically independent capacity.”

We pause and refer back when there is

  • New or worsening symptoms, or a significant change from usual function.
  • Falls, new mobility concerns, unsafe transfers or environmental safety concerns.
  • Swallowing, feeding or significant eating-related risk.
  • Medication questions, adverse effects or uncertainty about prescribed treatment.
  • Acute psychological distress, risk concerns or significant deterioration.
  • New or worsening cognitive / communication changes affecting safety.
  • A professional recommendation that appears no longer safe, tolerable or workable in everyday practice.
  • A need that is outside the educator or support person's competence or agreed role.
Scope & Referral-Back Guide

Working together

  1. Step 1

    Professional Referral Information Form

  2. Step 2

    Professional Feedback Form

  3. Step 3

    12-Week Functional Review

Professional tools

08Baseline Functional Snapshot

Record actual performance before teaching or implementation begins — separating safety from assistance, and capturing the participant's voice.

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11Generalisation Tracker

Check whether a skill can be used beyond one familiar teaching situation — across settings, with consistent safety and changing assistance.

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1212-Week Functional Review

The structured review that anchors the program: baseline against current performance, change in assistance, safety, and the decision for the next 12 weeks.

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14Professional Referral Information Form

For referrers: the functional question, relevant goals, existing recommendations, barriers, learning needs and preferred collaboration method.

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15Professional Feedback Form

For treating professionals: recommendations, precautions and stop rules, priorities, adaptations — and what must remain with the qualified professional.

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17Functional Observation Record

A structured observation of one task: context, initiation, attention, sequencing, help-seeking, prompting, safety, completion, the participant's voice and the next step.

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18Scope & Referral-Back Guide

When to pause implementation and seek appropriate professional review — the situations that sit outside IMHC's educational and functional scope.

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Support-person tools

09Prompt & Assistance / Prompt-Fading Record

Track the prompts and assistance actually used, whether a reduced prompt was tried, and the outcome — so support fades only when it is safe to.

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10Daily / Shift Implementation Record

A shift-by-shift record of the agreed skill or routine, the prompt or assistance used, the participant's response and voice, and any follow-up.

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16Support-Person Implementation Guide

How to support a person's agreed learning plan without taking over: observe, give time, use the least prompt needed, practise, record, fade support when safe.

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Refer or collaborate

Send a referral using the form above, or make an enquiry.