Confident Bathroom Mobility & Modification Practice

Name: Confident Bathroom Mobility & Modification Practice
Start: 2026-03-25T08:30:00+08:00
End: 2026-03-25T08:30:00+08:00
Location: Technology Park Function Centre

Unicare Health Seminar : Defining Pressure Care Excellence

LEARNING DAY

Join us for a dynamic professional development day designed to strengthen your clinical confidence in bathroom mobility, shower commode prescription, bidet selection, and practical bathroom modifications. This unique workshop brings together two separate and clinically complex areas of practice, supporting you to confidently assess, prescribe, and plan for whole bathroom access.

You’ll learn how to seamlessly integrate spatial, functional, and person-centred considerations into clear, confident clinical decisions that transform your clients’ safety, dignity, and independence.

Guided by two experienced and engaging educators, you’ll unpack best-practice assessment frameworks, explore real-world clinical scenarios and develop practical strategies for bathroom mobility prescription, bidet compatibility considerations, bathroom modification pathways, and functional design planning.

Whether you work in community care, NDIS, aged care, hospital, or rehabilitation settings, this immersive learning experience will elevate your clinical reasoning and equip you with practical tools you can implement immediately.

Learning Objectives

Shower Commode Prescription Essentials

Understand the functional roles, clinical applications and key standards that inform safe and effective shower commode design
Apply a person-centred assessment framework to identify personal, environmental, and occupational needs
Integrate key principles of posture, pressure care, and safety into shower commode prescription
Develop the skills to prescribe standard, customised and custom-made components to optimise clinical outcomes

Bathroom Modifications in the Home

Assess a person in their home and determine when to recommend grab rails, hob removal, or complex bathroom modifications
Develop a practical scope of work and concept drawings suitable for construction professionals
Apply relevant Australian Standards in bathroom modification prescription
Navigate NDIS pathways for low-cost, minor, and complex home modifications to maximise outcomes for participants
Understand how bathroom mobility equipment impacts home modification recommendations

This learning day welcomes practicing Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists who are looking to build their confidence and expand their skills in bathroom mobility.

Max Macknish
TADWA Manager, Therapy & Consultancy Services

Max is an experienced Occupational Therapist with national experience across multiple practice areas. For the past five years, he has specialised in Home Modifications and Assistive Technology within both ageing and disability sectors. Passionate about environmental design, Max supports clients to maintain safety and independence at home. Alongside managing a team of 16 OTs, he maintains a clinical caseload focused on complex home modifications, overseeing major bathroom renovations through to external lift installations, supported by strong collaborations with builders across WA.

Max has played a key role in expanding TADWA’s OT services into the Wheatbelt, Great Southern, Geraldton and the Mid-West regions. Deeply committed to lifting service quality and supporting emerging clinicians, he co-established TADWA’s online Blueprint Training series and continues to contribute to training, mentoring and capability-building initiatives across the profession.

Crystal Chan
Focused Educator – Bathroom Mobility Solutions

Crystal Chan, BHSc (OT), is Unicare Health’s Focused Educator in Bathroom Mobility Solutions. She delivers clinical training that empowers therapists to prescribe, script and customise equipment confidently. Crystal specialises in modifications and overcoming spatial limitations, creating practical bathroom solutions that enhance independence and support a wide range of client needs.