Psychosocial Recovery Coach
Perth and Melbourne
Our Psychosocial Recovery Coach service supports people living with acute and long-term mental health conditions to actively engage in personal recovery by identifying and lowering barriers, building on strengths, and serving as a personal guide and mentor in implementing and engaging in services.
What is a Psychosocial Recovery Coach?
A Psychosocial Recovery Coach supports people whose primary disability arises from a mental health condition. They work collaboratively with you, your family, carers and other services to design, plan and implement a recovery plan; and assist with the coordination of your government and mental health specific supports. It is funded primarily by the NDIS.
How We Can Support You
We understand your complex mental health needs and the importance of coordinated care in your recovery. Recovery Coaching looks different for every person, as it depends on the priorities of your recovery journey. At Avenues Australia, recovery means enhancing wellbeing while recognising the challenges posed by mental health symptoms and societal stigma. Your recovery journey begins with exploration and planning.
Our Recovery Coaches play a key role in managing and connecting services. Our process is not linear, with each stage outlined below supporting your recovery holistically, addressing social, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing beyond the traditional medical model.
Explore & Design
Exploring factors that affect mental health a design a recovery plan.
Connect & Coach
Engage services to implement the recovery plan, recognising individual needs and goals.
Capacity & Resilience
Provide coaching in goal
attainment, confidence,
self-management, and
crisis management.
Monitor
Monitor goals, address service gaps, preparation of funding reviews.
List of Activities a Recovery Coach Can Support You With
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Help in understanding your funded package and the services that funding can purchase.
A key point of contact for any questions, or any significant life changes or crisis.
Supporting in discharge planning (if applicable) to ensure supports are in place for continuing your care when you leave hospital.
Providing you with other alternative supports outside of hospital.
Design an individualised and fit-for-purpose Recovery Plan that is personal to your unique circumstances.
Research mental health service providers and help you choose the right one for your recovery.
Connecting you to peer support networks and other community services to support recovery.
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Ongoing management and coordination of your services.
Support in putting service agreements with service providers.
Understanding what other services you may be eligible for.
Support in managing day-to-day self-management of your supports.
Working with your family and/or carers, and with service providers to put in place services for mental health recovery and wellbeing.
Increase your capacity and supporting you in planning for relapse prevention, rehabilitation, and recovery.
Supporting you with budgeting your funding package so your funding does not run out before it is renewed.
Regularly monitor and review your services, and support in preparing for funding reviews.