What is a Keyworker?
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Team Leader
One primary clinician who supports multi-disciplinary strategy usage and team collaboration.
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One Clinician
You may choose to only see one clinician who recruits multidisciplinary strategies and focuses on functional needs rather than many clinicians focusing on isolated skills.
The clinician you see is trained in multi-disciplinary practices such as sensory integration, Gestalt processing, moving from echolalic to self generated speech, emotional processing, social skills, cognition and self care/management enabling them to provide supports across capacities. The clinician will recruit other health professionals for support to meet your needs.
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Family Focused
Keyworkers focus on family support integration. They provide services across the community and clinic to support all environments of routine.
How do Keyworker Models Work?
You have individual intervention services focused on skill development, as well as family sessions focused on training, sibling integration and community settings.
Keyworkers schedule regular collaborations with preschools, daycares and other community engagement settings to support strategy implementation in all environments.
Key Workers support families by reducing the the confusion over individual service strategy (OT vs Psych vs SLP strategies), they support identifying community goals and training you in the community, they support you in areas of stress to reduce your burden.
