Manual Handling Plans & Training

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Helping You Move Safely in Everyday Life

Navigating your daily routine can bring unexpected physical challenges, especially when it comes to transfers and moving around your home. We know how overwhelming it can be to worry about falling, losing your balance, or causing physical strain to your family and carers.

Our local team is here to help ease that stress. Through practical, face to face assessments, our occupational therapists create customized manual handling plans. These are straightforward, step by step guides tailored to your exact needs, ensuring you feel completely secure when moving, while fully protecting the health and wellbeing of the people supporting you.

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Our Movement and Transfer Services

We provide clear, evidence-based tools to make daily movements safer and more natural for everyone involved:

  • Comprehensive Mobility Assessments: Evaluating your current physical setup and day to day routines to build a practical snapshot of your unique movement needs.

  • Tailored Transfer Solutions: Designing specific plans for safe transitions, including hoist transfers, getting on and off the couch or bed, and moving in and out of the car.

  • Support Worker Training: Delivering customised training sessions for support workers and carers based on your unique requirements to encourage consistent and safe approaches.

  • Equipment Integration: Recommending and setting up assistive technology, such as hoists, slide sheets, or specialised seating, to promote long-term safety in your everyday life.

Frequently Asked Questions

Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ or reach out anytime. If you’re feeling ready, you can start by contacting us today.

  • A manual handling plan is a practical document created by an occupational therapist that outlines exactly how to support your physical movements safely. It acts as a clear guide for family members and support teams to follow so that nobody experiences injury or strain during everyday tasks.

  • Anyone experiencing changes in mobility due to injury, illness, neurological conditions, or disability can benefit. If your support workers or family members are finding it physically demanding to help you transfer or move, an assessment ensures everyone stays safe.

  • Yes. As an NDIS registered provider, our functional capacity assessments, reports, and ongoing support worker training sessions can be funded through your NDIS plan under core or capacity building budgets.

  • Yes, we provide training on how to transfer and how to safely support others to transfer.

    This training is for participants, support workers and other carers such as friends and family members

Local OT Support, Ready When You Are

We know that finding the right physical support shouldn't mean sitting on a waiting list for months. Our neighborhood team operates with open communication and deep integrity to get you the support you need, exactly when you need it.

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