Our services include:
- Functional assessments
- Home Safety Assessments (falls)
- Falls Prevention & Mobility Assessments
- Assistive Technology Prescription & Equipment Trials
- Seating and wheelchair prescription
- Home Modifications & Environmental Adaptations recommendations
- Fatigue management and cognitive strategy coaching
- Leisure options – keep doing the things you love!
- Development of goal-based intervention plans
- Education and training for carers and support staff
- Restorative care
- Reablement strategies
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration and case conferencing
- Consultation and education for the community sector and government
Who do we work with?
Encore OT works with:
- Older adults
- Adults with disability
- Adults living with chronic conditions
- Carers and families
- Aged Care providers, including Support at Home and Residential Care
- DVA clients
- Builders and trades
- Assistive Technology suppliers
- Community services
- The hospital-community interface
- GPs
- Healthy ageing and those planning ahead
- Frailty
- Community organisations
- Government
Our practice approach
Person‑centred and function‑focused care
We work in partnership with clients to support meaningful participation, functional independence, and everyday routines, whether challenges arise from disability, health changes, or ageing.
Quality, compliance, and best practice
Our services align with the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards and support providers in demonstrating safe, effective, and accountable care.
Professional, evidence‑informed practice
All interventions are guided by AHPRA requirements, the Occupational Therapy Code of Conduct, and current evidence to ensure safe, ethical, and effective service delivery.
Trauma‑informed and respectful
We recognise the impact of past experiences on current engagement and provide care that is safe, collaborative, and empowering.
Wellness, reablement, and positive ageing
Our approach emphasises strengths, capability, and practical strategies that support people to live well — at any age and through all stages of health and functional change.
Collaborative care
We work in genuine partnership with clients, their families, carers, and other providers, recognising everyone involved as part of the care team to support safe, coordinated, and person‑centred outcomes.
Service Area and Availability
Encore Occupational Therapy primarily services the Canberra and Queanbeyan areas.
With prior arrangement, Encore Occupational Therapy may also visit locations outside of the primary catchment area.
Encore OT is a part-time service, available Monday – Wednesday and Fridays.
Service Area and Availability
Encore Occupational Therapy primarily services the Canberra and Queanbeyan areas.
With prior arrangement, Encore Occupational Therapy may also visit locations outside of the primary catchment area.
Encore OT is a part-time service, available Monday – Wednesday and Fridays.
