Personal Support and Home Care Services

We will give you the personal support you need, when you need it, in your own home.

Our team of personal support workers (PSW) is located across Queensland and each PSW undertakes comprehensive training and rigorous background checks.

Where possible we try to match our PSWs to your personality and interests.

Click here to find about how you can become a personal support worker

Personal care

Ways we can support you to get on with your life include:

Transferring
Turning and re-positioning
Showering and bathing
Dressing
Personal grooming including shaving, hair care, make-up etc
Dental hygiene and denture care
Continence support including bowel care and bladder care (catheter flush and washout)
Skin integrity checks and basic wound care
Assistance with self-medication
Assistance with eating including Peg feeding.

Domestic support

We know that sometimes everyone needs a hand with day-to-day living. So we can support you with almost anything you need such as:

Shopping and paying bills
Preparing meals
Bed making including changing linen
General household cleaning and tidying
Laundry including washing, folding and ironing.

Lifestyle support

We understand the importance of having a lifestyle that inspires and fulfils you. Depending on your eligibility we can:

support you to engage in activities of your choosing whether it’s swimming, kayaking, fishing, sailing or attending concerts, carnivals, markets and sporting events, to name a few
make domestic and international holidays a reality with support workers available to accompany you on your journey
offer information on recreation and sport, community services and supports, and referrals to holiday accommodation
provide equipment trials and prescriptions so you can best access the leisure pursuits you want.

Transition support from hospital to home

You can transition from hospital to home confidently with us because we know what it takes. We have supported people with spinal injury return home for more than 30 years.

We can:

meet with you in hospital to develop a plan for living at home
select support staff you feel comfortable and confident with in your own home
arrange for someone to support you on a weekend pass home before discharge from hospital.

We also support people from regional areas.

Support for veterans

We are a proud provider of Veterans’ Home Care (VHC). Veterans’ Home Care is a Department of Veterans’ Affairs program designed to assist eligible veterans, war widows and widowers who wish to continue living at home but who need some assistance.

Veterans or war widow / widowers who wish to be assessed for VHC services should contact their regional VHC assessment agency on 1300 550 450.

The VHC website has more information about VHC services.