Fundamental Vocational Assessment

The Fundamental Vocational Assessment considers the functional impact of symptoms on an individual's home life and work potential.

What is a Fundamental Vocational Assessment?

This expert assessment considers the work role in its broadest sense, including voluntary and paid work.

The Fundamental Vocational Assessment clarifies how neurological symptoms, the environment, and an individual's well-being impacts their capabilities and work performance by outlining key strengths and challenges, risks, and support needs. It explores the functional impact of neurological symptoms on an individual's home life and work potential.

The remote assessment examines how the environment and the individual's experiences affect physical, cognitive, and psychological needs. It can help case managers, legal professionals, and employers to understand the vocational needs and work potential of an individual, as well as those wanting to understand the functional impact of their diagnosis.

Who is a Fundamental Vocational Assessment for?

Individuals

This has been designed for working age individuals with a neurological diagnosis, those who are suspected or confirmed to be neurodivergent, and those with complex physical needs. It is suitable for those at or absent from work, returning to work, seeking employment, or managing work alongside other responsibilities.

Support professionals

The Fundamental Vocational Assessment is suitable for employers managing return-to-work processes, as well as case managers or legal professionals requiring objective reports on work potential for a client with neurological or neurodivergent conditions.

What is Included in a Fundamental Vocational Assessment?

This assessment includes:

Standardised impact and severity rating of neurological symptoms
Review of medical status and current medical support
Analysis of function with an emphasis on work routine, job role, and demands
Exploration of strengths, challenges and values, and motivators relating to work

However it does not include:

Recommendations regarding alternative roles
Standardised cognitive, sensory, or environmental personal impact evalution
Support for senior executives, executives or business critical roles where an understanding of risk is required

If you require the services that are not included, we recommend a Work Capacity Assessment, a Psychological Needs Assessment, or a Cognitive Evaluation Assessment.

The Outcomes of your Assessment

Upon completion of a Fundamental Vocational Assessment, an individual will understand their ability to attend to the daily life tasks they want to, need to, or are expected to perform in their home life and work environment.

The neurological occupational therapist will have answered any key questions the individual or their referrer had and will provide recommendations that the individual can act upon to support their functional abilities at home and in the workplace.

Recommendations may also be provided for the employer so that modifications can be made for the individual to stay in or return to work.

Depending on the needs of the individual, this vocational assessment may also include recommendations that reference a need for further occupational therapy assessment to establish the extent of an individual's potential and to influence the quality, efficiency, and independence of performance and participation within activities. A vocational rehabilitation programme may also be suggested.

Contact an Expert

Neuro Logical from Krysalis is a workplace health service for employers who face the challenge of a neurological and neurodivergent condition at work.

We provide clinical services aimed at ensuring the safety and well-being of employees in work and those absent from work. For individuals who are absent, we offer support to facilitate their return to the workplace.

Neuro Logical has been designed for the workplace to deliver best outcomes for individuals and employers impacted by a neurological condition, improving results and efficiency by enabling timely and appropriate early intervention.

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What others says

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A long period of absence from work for whatever the reason is a big change, but specifically with neuro conditions, it takes that extra level of support. My therapist was exceptional! My neuro condition and journey back into work was an overwhelming one and without your support, I truly believe I would not have been as successful. Beneficiary
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