Online via Zoom – Friday, 1st November 2024 & Friday, 2nd May 2025.
9 am – 3 pm.
This 1- day webinar addresses the changes coming soon on what will be the new Assessment process under ACC for sexual abuse claims, changing over as of December 1, 2024. The term Supported Assessments is changing to Specialist Cover Assessment (SCA). These assessments will only be required for clients with complex needs, as well as where a diagnosis and treatment recommendations for complex needs therapy are indicated (known as Pathway B). This may or may not mean longer term therapy, but does allow for a range of service options with more hours to accommodate these needs. Other clients will obtain services through their Lead Service Provider and use pathway A and do not require an SCA.
PLEASE NOTE: This is not ACC endorsed training – it is a senior clinician’s take. It offers guidance in how to tackle the task of providing these Specialist Cover Assessments (referred to as SCA), once you are an approved assessor. However, your attendance for this training is not a guarantee of ACC approval for you to become an assessor nor is it part of ACC’s in-house training as it is a clinician’s take on the practical and clinical challenges in this task.
This training was previously known as Supported Assessments 101 and was rescheduled to November 2024 to allow time for the new requirements to be made clear. ACC provides learning modules on the changes to the system and these are freely available for registered and approved providers so they will not be repeated here. So pathway A clients do not need an SCA, only pathway B.
Presented by Diane Clare, an experienced clinical psychologist who has been an ACC provider since the 1990s, and who has been providing Supported Assessments since the start of the Sensitive Claims service, the webinar has otherwise retained the practical focus that has been invaluable to clinicians who have previously attended and it considers the clinical tasks that are still required along with the issues arising of additional services that may be offered under ACC.
It is to assist those quite new to completing Specialist Assessments, as well as being a refresher for those more experienced in the previous Supported Assessments in the earlier version of the ACC Sensitive Claims processes.
Workshop Content
In addition to the above update on the process, topics covered include:
- What/why/who: What is this Specialist Cover Assessment about under ACC (previously named Supported Assessment), why are they needed, and who delivers them?
- ABCD: Preparing and things to check before you begin: Approvals, Booking in, Core information, documents you will need.
- The 4Rs in Mapping the journey – rapport, roles, risks, requirements.
- The 3 Fs to the Finish line: Follow up session, formulation and feedback.
- Handling hiccups e.g. delay of medical notes, remote working, accuracy checking.
- Conclusions and issues arising.
We encourage participants to email any specific questions they have prior to the workshop so these can be addressed.
Who Should Attend
This training is suitable for ACC Approved assessors and those seeking approval from ACC to become assessors.
Spaces are limited so book today to ensure your place.
Price: $320.00 pp Inc GST
For more information and to register – please visit the website:
https://www.grow.co.nz/page/supported-assessments-101/
For queries, please contact Faye Johnson – faye@grow.co.nz / 027 607 3000.