NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-4a.4 Severe dysphagia: policies, procedures and worker training plans
Clause and reference m1-4a.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider has appropriate policies and procedures for supporting each participant who needs severe dysphagia management, including training plans for the workers supporting them.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Severe dysphagia management policy and procedure
- Training plans naming workers assigned to each participant
- Procedure for responding to a dysphagia incident
What assessors commonly find
- Dysphagia covered only within the general mealtime procedure
- Training plan not linked to rostering
What evidence do I need?
For m1-4a.4 Severe dysphagia: policies, procedures and worker training plans, the evidence to bring is: Severe dysphagia management policy and procedure; Training plans naming workers assigned to each participant. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-4a.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me severe dysphagia management policy and procedure, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.
Read your own evidence against this clause
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading