Vocational support aims to enable you to participate in employment or voluntary work. In the first instance, vocational support services focus on returning you to your original employment with your pre-injury employer/s.

The LSA may fund vocational support such as vocational pre-training, vocational training, and retraining. These will be provided where there is evidence that such support will enable you to benefit from socialisation associated with employment participation and to obtain, and/or maintain employment.

The LSA will fund the following vocational support services. Services may include:

• training course fees, and compulsory student and administrative charges
• compulsory textbooks and materials
• travel expenses to and from the approved training
• training missed during an absence from tertiary/ vocational studies that is a result of the Motor Vehicle Injury.

The LSA will consider all ‘necessary and reasonable’ services. For more information, please refer to:

Information Sheet: Necessary and Reasonable Treatment Care and Support.

Vocational support items the LSA will not fund include:

• capital expenditure such as the costs of establishing and running a business
• services that you were receiving prior to your Motor Vehicle Injury
• Assistive Technology that employers are required to provide to employees to meet Work Health and Safety requirements
• assistance to keep a business open, such as paying for temporary staff to do your job
• wages subsidies for an employer
• standard furniture and other capital items associated with your place of employment
• everyday living expenses associated with employment, such as clothing/uniforms or lunches
• phone calls, photocopying, stationery, meals at training venues and all other expenses associated with training
• costs of training courses that you had enrolled in or commenced prior to the injury
• training or other activities related to maintaining an existing qualification, licence, registration or accreditation once the qualification, licence, registration, or accreditation has been obtained
• training that would be considered to form part of induction, ongoing skill maintenance or development that is within the responsibility of the employer or you, to maintain your employment
• training associated with voluntary career changes or personal development.

If you want to access vocational support services, you will need to first speak to your Service Planner who will work with you to determine the support that best suits your needs.

Your Service Planner will work with you to determine what your vocational goals and needs are, and how best to achieve and meet them.

For more information, please contact your Service Planner  or the Lifetime Support Authority.

• Phone:  1300 880 849
• Email:  lifetime.support@sa.gov.au
• Online:  lifetimesupport.sa.gov.au