Functional Capacity Assessments in Campbelltown
Mobile, evidence-based functional capacity assessments for NDIS participants across Campbelltown and the Macarthur region. Our AHPRA-registered occupational therapists come to you, so distance is our problem to solve rather than yours.
When is a functional capacity assessment worth doing?
A functional capacity assessment (FCA) is an occupational therapy assessment of how you manage everyday activities, and what supports would help you live more independently. Across Campbelltown and Macarthur, where getting to an appointment can mean a long trip, being assessed at home removes a barrier before the assessment even starts.
- ✓ An NDIS access request or a plan review is on the horizon
- ✓ You need evidence of how a disability affects everyday functioning and independence
- ✓ A planner, support coordinator, GP or treating allied health professional has requested one
- ✓ You are thinking about moving out of the family home and need the support needs evidenced
- ✓ You are taking a decision to external review at the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART)
The areas an FCA covers
We assess the areas of daily life that decide how independently you can live, and in a region this spread out we pay particular attention to getting places, because transport is often the difference between a goal being realistic and being theoretical.
Personal care and hygiene
Showering, dressing, grooming and toileting, and how much of it needs another person in the room.
Mobility and transfers
Moving around the home, transfers, steps and outdoor ground, and what a fall would mean living alone.
Household and money tasks
Meals, cleaning, laundry, shopping and paying for things, which are the skills a move tests first.
Travel and community access
A bus, the train, or relying on a lift, and getting to work, study or a regular activity.
Planning and problem-solving
Memory, attention, planning, and knowing what to do when something goes wrong.
Communication and staying safe
Communication, asking an unfamiliar person for help, and safety at home and in the community.
How we gather evidence across the whole week
A single visit gives a single angle. We gather evidence from several so the report describes the whole week and stands up to a close read.
Goals, in your words
We start with what the person themselves wants, recorded in their own words. Where a family and a participant want different things, that is worth knowing at the start rather than discovering in the report.
Assessment at home
We assess in the home across the everyday routines, including the evening and overnight pattern, which is the part families tend to carry quietly and rarely mention unless asked directly.
Community and transport
In Macarthur this is a practical question. Can you manage a bus, or the train from Campbelltown or Leumeah, how far can you walk from a car park, and what happens on a day when nobody can drive you.
Family, carers and support workers
With your consent we speak with the people involved. Two accounts of the same night often differ, and the difference is usually informative rather than a problem.
Existing reports and history
We review rehabilitation and specialist reports, discharge summaries and previous allied health assessments, so the assessment builds on what is already documented.
Validated assessment tools
Where appropriate we use recognised measures such as the WHODAS 2.0 and the COPM, so support needs are described against something comparable rather than as an impression.
A single, joined-up report
It is written up as one report, in language a planner, a support coordinator and a parent can all follow, with the reasoning behind each recommendation set out.
Read our full assessment methodology, including the evidence standard every recommendation is written to.
Why Macarthur families choose us
Plenty of providers list Campbelltown and then take weeks to get there. These are the things worth checking.
Evidence gathered from several angles
We combine what we observe, what the people around the participant describe and what the clinical record already establishes, including the overnight pattern that a daytime visit never sees.
Local to Campbelltown and Macarthur
We travel across Campbelltown, Ingleburn, Minto, Leumeah, Ambarvale, Rosemeadow, Bradbury, Glenfield and the wider Macarthur region, and we come to you.
Reports built for planners
Written against the reasonable and necessary criteria, with the support pattern set out across the day rather than as a single number, usually within 2 to 3 weeks depending on complexity.
Distance is built into how we work
Macarthur is spread out, and a service that only really works near a clinic does not serve it. We are mobile by design, and we will tell you up front whether we can reach you.
Paediatric to older adult
Our AHPRA-registered occupational therapists assess across the lifespan, choosing tools to suit the person and the question being asked.
We keep everyone updated
With your consent we stay in contact with your support coordinator, GP and existing care team while the assessment is under way.
Inside your assessment report
Where transport or distance limits what a person can realistically do, we document it, because a support that assumes an easy trip into town is not a support that will be used.
Situation and history
A clear account of the person’s circumstances, history and what daily life currently looks like.
Assessment scores
Results from the standardised tools used, and what those scores mean in practical terms.
Ratings by domain
How the person rates across each assessed area, from personal care through to problem-solving.
Barriers, risks and overnight needs
Including the unplanned and after-hours situations that usually decide the level of support required.
Recommended support pattern
The supports proposed, described as a pattern across the day and night rather than a single total.
Evidence for planning
Findings aligned to the reasonable and necessary criteria, ready for planning, review or external review.
What the report unlocks in your NDIS plan
For Campbelltown participants an FCA is usually the evidence that turns a goal into a funded support. These are the places it counts.
- ✓ Access requests: shows how the disability affects everyday functioning in practical terms
- ✓ Plan reviews: justifies the supports being asked for, with evidence for each one
- ✓ External review (ART): gives the Administrative Review Tribunal something firmer than the file it already holds
- ✓ Living arrangements: evidences the level and pattern of support a person needs to live away from family
- ✓ Matching supports to need: shows which of therapy, assistive technology, home modifications and support hours actually fits
Using an FCA when someone wants to move out of home
Leaving the family home is one of the biggest decisions in a plan, and it is often argued on hope rather than evidence. An FCA is where that gets settled.
The hard part is that support needs at home are invisible. Parents have been prompting, checking and getting up at night for years, and much of it has stopped registering as care. When we assess, we count it, task by task and hour by hour, including the overnight pattern that families almost never mention unless asked directly.
We then look at the tasks a move would introduce that nobody has needed to do yet: managing money for a weekly shop, getting to a regular activity without a lift, and knowing what to do if the power goes out or someone knocks at the door. A person can be highly capable at home and still have never had to solve any of these.
The report sets out the level and pattern of support needed, and separates what is a genuine ongoing need from what could realistically be built with capacity-building support first. Where supported accommodation is being considered, a separate SIL or SDA assessment may also be required, and we will say plainly which reports are likely to be needed.
How an assessment runs, step by step
A worked example of the approach applied to a real decision.
Planning a move to supported living, Campbelltown
This is a worked example, written to show how we would approach an assessment of this kind. It does not describe a real person or a real assessment. Funding outcomes depend on individual circumstances and are decided by the funder.
The situation
Consider a young adult in Campbelltown with cerebral palsy, living with their parents and wanting to move into shared supported accommodation. The family support the move but are worried it is being decided on optimism rather than evidence. The plan review is the moment to get it right.
What we would do
We would start with the person’s own goals, in their words: privacy, cooking for themselves, keeping a weekend routine. We would assess at home over two visits, observing personal care, transfers, meal preparation and how they manage at night, which is the part of the day families often carry quietly. We would record what is independent, what needs set-up beforehand and what needs another person present.
We would then look at the tasks a move would introduce: managing money for a shop, using public transport to get to a regular activity, and knowing what to do if something goes wrong at home alone. With consent we would speak with both parents and a long-term support worker, whose accounts of overnight needs frequently differ from each other in useful ways. We would review the rehabilitation specialist’s report and any previous physiotherapy notes, and use the WHODAS 2.0 and the COPM for comparable measures.
What the report would set out
The level and pattern of support the person would need to live away from the family home, hour by hour rather than as a single figure, and which skills could realistically be built with capacity-building support first. It gives a planner and a family a shared, evidenced basis for the discussion about supported living, rather than two opposing impressions.
Funding your assessment
A functional capacity assessment in Campbelltown is charged by the hour, at the NDIS occupational therapy price of $193.99 per hour in 2026-27, based on the time the assessment and report take. See how OT is priced for a full breakdown.
| Funding type | What it means |
|---|---|
| NDIS – plan-managed | Your plan manager pays our invoices from your plan. The most common option. |
| NDIS – self-managed | You manage and pay invoices directly from your plan funding. |
| Home Care Package (Levels 1–4) | Occupational therapy for older adults, funded through your package provider. |
| CHSP | Entry-level aged care support, subject to eligibility. |
| Medicare | Up to five allied health sessions a year with a GP care plan (a gap may apply). |
| Private | Pay directly, no referral required. |
For NDIS participants, an FCA is generally funded from the Capacity Building – Improved Daily Living budget, depending on your plan. Funding is not guaranteed, so check with your support coordinator or planner.
Functional capacity assessments across Campbelltown and the Macarthur region
We are a mobile service and come to you throughout Campbelltown (2560) and the surrounding suburbs, including Ingleburn, Minto, Leumeah, Ambarvale, Rosemeadow, Bradbury, Glenfield, Claymore, Macquarie Fields and the wider Macarthur region.
Functional capacity assessments in Campbelltown: your questions
Do you offer NDIS occupational therapy in Campbelltown?
Do you actually travel to Macarthur, or only to Liverpool?
Can an FCA be used for a SIL or SDA discussion?
Do you come to me at home?
How long will it take to get an assessment and a report?
Why speak to several people rather than just the participant?
Is the assessment covered by the NDIS?
Is there an age limit on who you assess?
Request a functional capacity assessment in Campbelltown
Send a referral or an enquiry below, or call 1300 316 664. Tell us your suburb and we will confirm straight away whether we can reach you.
Mobile assessments across Macarthur
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