William Drapac Email & Phone Number

Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

Australia

• Role / Responsibilities:
• Help create the operational structures required to operate under the NDIS
• Guide and Mentor staff through the NDIS
• Coordinate our team of allied health professionals to meet the needs of our NDIS participants
• Conduct NDIS & Disability assessments, intervention and treatments and work within the NDIS policies and guidelines
• Conduct functional needs and capacity assessments

Heidelberg, Victoria

• Key tasks/skills:
• Build rapport and trusting relationships with consumers and significant others
• Effectively work independently and as part of a team to meet deadlines and reach intended outcomes.
• Support consumers living with mental illness to improve their health, live independently and pursue a life based on their own strengths, values and goals.
• Provided a therapeutic client-centred approach, supporting goals consumers wanted to achieve and collaboratively breaking down long-term goals into achievable tasks
• Developed and co-facilitated sensory modulation workshops, with the aim to develop a personalized sensory toolbox to enable consumers to regulate attention and activity levels to attend to important stimuli and filter.

Greeting students and patrons, problem solving and responding to any questions and requests in a prompt and efficient manner, working collaboratively with colleagues and students to reach intended outcomes, data entry, production of student documents whilst maintaining confidentiality

Hawthorn

• Key tasks/skills:
• Developed an evidence-based manual handling training package, including presentation, training proposals and created a manual-handling brochure, outlining the elements within the training
• Developed and implemented a pre-training survey, to enable an industry specific training package to be tailored to meet clients needs
• Liaised with a number of key stakeholders to establish clear project goals and deliverables
• Effectively managed time and coordinated numerous tasks to meet deadlines
• Researched and analysed existing training packages offered by Nabenet to consumers needing manual handling training

Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia

• Key tasks/skills:
• Worked independently and as part of a team, in a variety of multidisciplinary, professional and social contexts
• Planned, implemented and documented one-to-one goal setting and therapy sessions
• Performed multiple tests and assessments, such as the Behavioural Inattention Test (BIT) assessing the severity of unilateral neglect, and the Purdue Pegboard test, assessing manual dexterity as well as bimanual.
• Performed home assessments and made referrals to relevant councils for home modifications
• Consulted with rehabilitation team members, reporting patient progress at team meetings and presenting handovers

Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia

• Key tasks/skills:
• Observed standardized assessments including Manual Ability Classification System (MACS)
• Assisted with conducting the Melbourne Assessment 2 to test unilateral upper limb function
• Liaised with health professionals to develop a strengthening program for an adolescent with an undiagnosed degenerative neurological disorder
• Assisted to develop treatment plans incorporating play therapy and SMART goal setting
• Assisted in the construction of assistive clothing as well as a range of thermoplastic and neoprene splits for children with cerebral palsy

Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia

• Key tasks/skills:
• Provision of services to adults in the areas of neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, orthopaedic, workplace injuries and general medical
• Conducted initial assessments and ADL assessments
• Successfully liaised with health professionals as well as family members of inpatients
• Built rapport and trusting relationships with patients and significant others
• Assisted in designing a graded return to work program

Masters Of Occupational Therapy Practice, Occupational Therapy/Therapist

Activities and Societies: La Trobe Occupational Therapy Students Association (LOTSA)

Bachelor Of Health Sciences (Rehabilitation Counselling Major), Mental Health Counseling/Counselor