Emplolyment Pathways Guide

The ‘Employment Pathways: A guide for BIRP clinicians’ is a summary of the pathways for clients, specific to each funding scheme. Word and PDF versions:

Guide for BIRP clinicians

Referral forms

 

Fast Track              New Track

 

Fast Track Process

Client Summary Tool: Overview

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It is useful to understand the person with brain injury including:

• Their strengths
• Their difficulties; and
• Strategies for dealing with their difficulties.

Clinicians can use this tool to generate client summary information.

The summary information can be downloaded as a Word document.

The Client Summary TOOL

The Client Summary Tool is a way of clinicians generating summary information by:

• Systematically identifying strengths and difficulties of the person with the brain injury
• Identifying what these strengths and difficulties mean, i.e. their definitions
• Identifying strategies for dealing with the difficulties; and
• Putting the information in a Word document.

Some examples of skills (which can be strengths or difficulties), their definitions and strategies for dealing with difficulties in relation to these skills are:

Skills	Definitions	Strategies
General concentration	Ability to focus on the relevant aspects of the task at hand	Minimise distractions. Guide the person back to task, present verbal information one point at a time
Plan/organise	Set goals, plan appropriate steps and organisational skills, including starting and stopping actions appropriately	Divide large assignments into smaller steps; use to-do lists; follow a set routine; hold weekly planning meetings, use picture diagrams of problem solving techniques

 

Steps in the Client Summary Tool

The Client Summary Tool takes you through four steps:

Step 1

Identification of the persons strengths and difficulties from a comprehensive list of skills.

Step 2

Reviewing the list of :

Strengths
Difficulties
Specific strategies for dealing with the identified difficulties
Generic strategies for people with brain injury returning to work.

And unchecking any items that are, on reflection, not relevant

Step 3

The skill names are replaced with the descriptive definitions of skills.

Reviewing the updated list of the items.

And unchecking any items that are, on reflection, not relevant, or that you do not want to include in the Word Document for download.

Step 4

Generating a Word document from the content at Step 3.

 

 

Tool steps: Overview

A overview of the Steps in the Client Summary Tool

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The Client Summary Tool takes you through four steps:

The following include screen shots of parts of the tool.

Step 1

Identification of the persons Strengths and Difficulties from a comprehensive list of skills.

Step 2

Review the list of :

Strengths
Difficulties
Specific strategies for dealing with the identified difficulties
Generic strategies for people with brain injury returning to work

And uncheck any that on reflection are not relevant.

Step 3

The names of the skills have now been replaced with longer descriptive definitions.

Review a list of the items that have remained checked at Step 2

And uncheck any that on reflection you do not want included in the final Word document

Step 4

Generate a Word Document from the content at Step 3. See next Tab for the full text of the Word document.