Services for all disability support needs
Our services
Household Tasks
Living independently in your home is important and at times it may require additional help with household tasks. Centred Care provides a variety of household services with a frequency that suits you – daily, weekly, fortnightly or as required.
Some of our household services include:
— General home cleaning
— Washing/hanging clothes
— Folding/ironing clothes
— Removing/washing/applying bed linen
— Washing/drying dishes
— General yard and garden maintenance
— Meal preparation
Personal Care
When daily personal care is done well, it can contribute to a feeling of confidence and accomplishment. Support in personal care can be provided to you by one of our experienced carers.
Some of our personal care support includes help with:
— General hygiene and personal grooming
— Medication assistance
— Preparing meals
High Intensity Care
High intensity support is available for individuals who have high care needs and are aimed at enabling their lives to be as independent as possible. These supports are provided by more highly trained support workers or clinicians with advanced qualifications and experience. For example; Registered Nurses
Our high care supports include:
— Complex Bowel Care
— Enteral Feeding Support
— Dysphagia Support
— Ventilator Support
— Tracheostomy Support
— Urinary Catheter Support
— Subcutaneous Injections
— Complex Wound Care Support
Therapeutic Supports
Our allied health clinicians are dedicated to providing quality care to assist people with a disability to reach their full potential. We use a multi-disciplinary and collaborative approach to provide therapeutic supports.
Our clinicians will develop an intervention that will best meet your needs. Our therapeutic support services include:
— Podiatry
— Speech Pathology
— Occupational Therapy
— Physiotherapy
— Social Work
— Psychology
Home Modifications
For many individuals living with disability, it is common for homes to require modifications to meet individual needs. Homes can be modified and equipped in order to help maintain independence and reduce any risk of injury.
Our fully qualified tradesmen can design and implement accessibility modifications that will be tailor made to your individual needs. This will help maintain independence and reduce the risk of injury.
Our home modification services include:
— Ramp Access: Altering stairs at the entrance or rear of your home into wheelchair accessible ramps.
— Widening Doorways: Increasing the width of doorways to allow easier access and movement between rooms.
— Bathroom Modifications: Installing rails in the bathroom and shower, modifying the sink basin and layout to accommodate wheelchair access.
— Kitchen Modifications: Lowering the height of benches and shelves, allowing easier reach to storage and other kitchen appliances.
— Electrical System: Relocating light switches and power points to useable heights, installing alarm systems and installing smart home devices to control the lights/blinds in particular rooms.
Assisting Travel/Transport
Our staff are able to assist you with your travel and transport, when you need to go out for appointments, social activities or running other errands.
Our Assistive Travel/Transport services include:
— Assistive Travel: Whether you need to get to appointments or your child requires transport or assistance in going to school, carers are there to provide help in driving you to your destination and also assisting throughout the travel process.
— Transport Arrangements: Arranging the travel plans to and from social activities or appointments by arranging taxi services or other specialised transport.
— Shopping Needs: Transport assistance for grocery shopping or submitting a prescription at the chemist, assistance in carrying bags as well as packing away the shopping.
Daily Tasks and
Shared Living
Centred Care will provide the support you need to live the way you choose. We can customise your care so that you can live as independently as possible. You may need just a small amount of supervision or perhaps more substantial assistance in completing daily tasks such as:
— Domestic tasks
— Travel to medical or social appointments
— Medication reminders
— Maintaining health and wellbeing
— Written communication, completing forms, and paying bills
— Maintaining social skills, and positive family and peer relationships
— Support for shared living Arrangements
Assisting Life
Stage Transition
Planning and providing short and long-term supports in order to strengthen participants' ability to coordinate supports, assistance to live successfully at home and to actively participate in the community.
Transitioning to a new stage of life is a challenging time for anyone. With a disability, it can be even harder. At Centred Care Providers, we excel at helping NDIS participants through their life stage transitions.
There are many transition points throughout a lifetime, for example: starting school, leaving home, getting a job, or retiring from work. You can benefit at each of these stages of life with a planned approach that examines individual abilities, needs and goals. With proper planning, we can support you through your various life transitions and onto achieving your goals.
Life stage transition supports include:
— assistance with support connection
— coordination of supports
— assistance with accommodation
— life transition planning including mentoring, peer support and personal skill development
— assistance with decision making, daily planning and budgeting
Development of Life Skills
Centred Care will work with you and your loved ones to put in place supports needed to develop everyday skills, with a particular focus on building confidence and independence.
Development of daily living and life skills focuses on training and development activities undertaken by the participant or their carer to increase their ability to live as autonomously as possible. These supports will enhance the ability of the participant to such things as:
— travel and use public transport independently and troubleshoot any issues
— practice and maintain personal hygiene regularly and many more. Life Skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable humans to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life.
— maintain good health by shopping for and preparing a healthy meal
— maintain a clean home by learning how to perform housework and addressing minor maintenance issues
— communicate with service providers and support networks
Community Nursing Care
It isn’t always necessary to go to hospital or medical centre to receive good quality nursing support. If you have complex health needs because of your disability, you may be able to access community nursing services in your own home, helping you to live as independently as possible.
Our wide range of nursing services at home include:
— Complex Bowel Care
— PEG Feeding and Management
— Urinary Catheter Management
— Subcutaneous Injections
— Complex Wound Management
— Medication Management
— Ventilator management and respiratory support
— Health assessments and assistance with developing treatment plans
— Stoma care
— Overnight nursing care
— Monitoring vitals such as blood pressure, pulse, temperature, blood sugar
— Health education for NDIS participants and families
— Continence management support
— Palliative care
— Diabetes management
— Support after a stay in hospital and post operative care
— Dementia support
— Assistance with self-care activities
Innovative Community Participation
At Centred Care Providers we offer a wide range of activities to engage with our participants and increase their inclusion in their wider community. Everyone deserves to have fun in their lives and may do this by participating in social activities, social events and recreational activities.
Centred Care Providers believe that everyday is an opportunity to fulfil your desired goals. We offer community participation as a way to empower participants to reach new goals.
You may like to:
— socialise with like minded individuals at a coffee shop or club
— go on adventures such bushwalking or ocean swimming
— take a class in singing or dancing
— participate in an art and craft group
— attend a group cooking class
— attend group fitness training
Whatever your interest, we will develop a community participation plan to suit your needs and choices.
Assist Access/
Maintain Employment
Access to reasonable, suitable and sustainable employment is the goal of many individuals. Depending upon your individual circumstances, assistance in accessing and maintaining employment may be part of your NDIS plan.
Centred Care Providers can help people living with disability, find and keep jobs, get promoted to better jobs, upgrade or expand their workplace skills and more. If you cannot access a Disability Employment Services (DES), we will assist you in this respect to reach your employment goals.
These supports include help to:
— Identify your skills and interests
— Build your confidence and skills
— Assist you find appropriate training courses or study
— Prepare your resume
— Discuss the logistics of working
— Continue to support you once you start work
— Develop a career plan