Writing About Yourself is Weird… Jordan Dickson.
So far… Mañana is just me… Jordan Dickson, I don’t want to be a founder, a CEO, a clincal lead, a principle, any of those, I just want to be helpful to others.
Personally; keen surfer, keen kiter, keen snowboarder. Likes video games, comics (have you read invincible!), rock climbing! 2 cats.
Weird things: I like to go the the library to get CD’s and listen to the whole thing!If you are calling and can’t find me, best guess is that I’m in the ocean! (I’ll call you back!)
Professionally: A developing and ongoing relationship with the systems and governance of the NDIS since its pilot rollout July 2013 (wow 10 years+).
Forever grateful for a change of career to meet a wonderful bunch of participants in early service delivery that taught me that quality of life and making the most of everyday is for everyone! Always a person centred supporter.
From entry at the support worker care level to evolutions to house management, day programs, STA coordination, Team leads etc, an important skills pathway that never forgets that while the participant is forefront, the supporters of the participant and the teams that surround them daily are often the influencing catalyst for quality of life increases.
While working in the USA, with complex participants in the equivalent SIL space, I was trained the process behaviour support (which the NDIS now calls Improved Relationships). Understanding behaviour as communication, and the environmental influences on behaviour, in conjunction with a participants ability to make change per their function remains at the forefront of practice.
Human rights first delivery in best practice (per RP), Training for stakeholders to support participants, Combined support advocacy, and working with the participants direct in their environments are the cornerstones of my practice for “Improved Relationships” (That’s not just the focus with me and the participant, but everybody in the participants support circle BTW.)
I have been an NDIS Behaviour Practitioner for 5 years, and the NDIS recognise my skills in the capability framework at the advanced practitioner level (P0003529).
There’s all sorts of certificates to validate the practice:
Graduate Certificate in Special and Inclusive Support
Cert IV Training and Assessment
Association for Behavioural Contextual Science
Managing Challenging Behaviour etc,
But that’s not what matters, what matters is how I go about assisting YOU.
Our Client Representative – Lachlan Strange
Nothing without the input from the people we represent.
Lachlan Strange displays a strong determination to ensure that participants in the scheme, and particularly participants working with Manana are represented and accounted for in the company direction, planning and feedback.
Lachlan has a strong interest in it, because: he’s a participant too!
Lachlan knows the importance of making choices and having your say compared to having others make choices for you. He knows that as an adult, and a person with both complex disability diagnosis and mental health, he still deserves a say. He sees that for himself and it’s a great thing!
Lachlan understands the importance of the Improved relationships and behaviour support role and the help that it can offer to assist with services and interactions in making the NDIS teamwork.
Lachlan also understands his participant rights, his rights to consent, and his rights to choose support to suit his goals and outcomes – he has lived it.
That makes it only right that he’s included on our board to help us serve people like him.
P.S. Lachlan sees and edits all this, he’s approved it!
