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Accommodation/Tenancy

Patience Care Services is a NDIS disability service provider in Melbourne, we assist our participants to achieve their individual Accommodation and Tenancy goals such as assisting participants to overcome barriers and undertake activities to ensure the participant obtains/retains appropriate accommodation

According to your circumstances and goals, Patience Care Services accommodation and tenancy assistance can include:

  • Assistance with financial management/ budgeting
  • Assistance with redefine or develop housing goals
  • Assisting with private rental applications
  • Assisting with DHHS rentals applications
  • Identifying and implementing strategies to maintain current tenancies
  • Assistance with DHHS Bond Loan
  • Exploring alternative housing options
  • Assistance with sustainable accommodation with greater independence
  • Assisting with DHHS, real estate agents or proprietors to identify barriers to maintaining at risk tenancies

Assist Access/Maintain Employment

Patience Care Services Assist you to explore your career preferences and commence or stay at work, we support our participants to find and keep jobs, get promoted to better jobs, upgrade or expand their workplace skills and more

Patience Care Services focuses on skill development, our experienced staff will assist you in this respect to reach your employment goals or to maintain your skills to promote independence and work towards achieving your short-term / long-term goals. If you have Core supports funding in your NDIS budget, there is flexibility for choosing supports that meet your individual needs with household tasks

Patience Care Services will assist to reach your employment goals which includes:

  • Preparing resume for job
  • Assisting with skills development
  • Assistance with Career guidance, counselling and training courses
  • Assistance with building confidence and skills 
  • Work training placements
  • Assistance with travel arrangements
  • Financial management [money handling and budgeting]

Assistive Products for Personal Care and Safety

Patience Care Services aim to create a better life for our participants by providing personal care products along with our best team All the assistive products are of the best quality and available to all the participants. It will give you confidence and reassure you to be live independently as much as possible

Every product will ensure that your life can be happier and relaxed which is the most effective way to improve and maintain your health and improve your strength, balance and mobility.

Here is a list of some of the services we can provide

  • Attending appointments
  • Assistance with high and low beds and pressure mattresses
  • Using aids and appliances
  • Assistance with toilet and bathroom equipment
  • Assistance with specialized clothing
  • Assistance with continence needs
  • Eating and drinking
  • ensure technologies are safe and secure for use
  • Medication set-up

Assist Personal Activities High

Patience Care Services is a NDIS provider and our team workers are well trained and experienced will assist you to learn skills to improve or your personal independence. Our facilities are modern and purposely built to ensure complete satisfaction.

Our services are tailored to suit your needs and can be offered as short or long-term support. The high intensity daily personal activities we can help you with include but not limited to

  • Assistance with ventilation
  • Complex wound management
  • Enteral Feeding
  • Management of Urinary catheters
  • Pressure care
  • Complex Bowel Care

Assist-Life Stage Transition

Patience Care Services have the best Support Team here is in Melbourne Victoria, we excel at helping NDIS participants through life stage transitions. Patience Care Services understand how daunting it is to transition into a new stage of life and our excellent team strives to make it easier for you. Whether you are starting school, leaving home, starting a new job or retiring from a job, we support you every step of the way. Our plans are tailored to suit your specific needs and goals, thus making all your goals more achievable.

Our services include both short- and long-term support that focuses on assistance to live at home, community participation, and helping you to coordinate your own support. Our knowledgeable team of support coordinators will work with you to ensure a good mixture of supports are used to increase your capacity to maintain relationships, manage service delivery tasks, live more independently, and be included in your community.

Some of our Support Coordination services

  • Assist with your NDIS plan and help you with your upcoming NDIS plan reviews.
  • help you to connect with the community and mainstream supports, such as health services, housing and education.
  • Ensure service agreements and service bookings are completed.
  • Assist you to ‘optimize’ your plan ensuring that you are getting the most out of your funded supports.
  • Help you to identify and purchase the supports and services you need to achieve your goals
  • Work with you to identify, develop, coordinate and access supports and services on your behalf, or assist you and your family to access supports and services on your own.
  • Support you to have a better understanding of the NDIS and empower you to manage your support and funding.
  • Assistance with decision making
  • Life planning and goal planning
  • Implementing long term plans of support
  • Capacity building skills
  • Resolving points of crisis
  • Development of independent self-care and living skills
  • Applying for rental tenancy
  • Life transition planning including mentoring, peer support and individual skill development
  • Understanding utility bills
  • Linkage to Mainstream supports
  • Maintaining a budget plan

Assist-Personal Activities

Our support staff can provide assistance across a variety of settings – in the comfort of your own home, when you are living with family, when you are undertaking social, recreational, education or employment activities or when you are on vacation. We provide NDIS Services in Melbourne Victoria.

Our personal care supports usually assist you with a number of goals, rather than one specific goal. We believe that maximising your independence and functional skills is an integral part of achieving your goals. We help you undertake all Personal Activities so that you can live with increased independence.

The following are a list of some of the services we offer:

  • Personal hygiene, including showering, bathing, oral hygiene, dressing and grooming
  • Attending appointments
  • Grocery shopping
  • Assistance with mobility and transferring eg: moving into and out of bed and moving on or off the toilet
  • Assistance to use aids and appliances, hearing and communication devices
  • Bladder, bowel management and menstrual care
  • Basic first aid

Community Nursing Care

Patience Care Services provides Community Nursing services to those participants who have complex health needs that require specialist care. The registered nurse will assess your clinical needs and in collaboration with you and the relevant professional(s) draw up a suitable care plan to meet your care needs and we can help you lead an independent and healthy life.

Community Nursing can be provided in the comfort of your home by our qualified nurses and their services can be accessed on a regular or occasional basis. 

Here is a list of some of the services we can provide:

  • Assistance with Medical appointment
  • Assistance with Health Care Plans
  • Medication set-up
  • Medication administration/supervision
  • Assistance with diet plans
  • Assistance with ventilation (Respiratory Care)
  • Catheter care and management
  • Tube-feeding assistance
  • Diabetes management
  • Dementia management
  • Care after a hospital stay
  • Overnight nursing care
  • Complex Bowel Care
  • Wound care

Daily Tasks/Shared Living

Patience Care Services is a NDIS support provider with a team of dedicated support staff who can provide assistance with daily tasks and shared living. We have experienced and highly trained staff who have the perfect skills and abilities to meet the particular needs of individuals with complex care needs.

By helping with daily activities, it enables participants to develop more independence and maintain routines that way our participant remains happier and enjoy day to day life

Here is a list of some of the services we can provide

  • Assistance with budgeting and managing finances
  • Assistance with mobility and transferring eg: moving into and out of bed and moving on or off the toilet
  • Assisting with grooming (Bathing, dressing)
  • Attending medical appointments
  • Assistance with government departments and bills
  • Safety and fall prevention
  • Support with literacy and numeracy
  • Transportation to social and recreational activities
  • Assistance with light exercise and outdoor activity
  • assistance in building positive relationships
  • Meal preparation and nutrition
  • Laundry and change of bed linens
  • Grocery shopping

Innovative Community Participation

We at Patience Care Services offer our participants the opportunity for Innovative Community Participation, the program involves highly skilled and experienced Community Engagement team who assist participants to expand their opportunities for community participation and to learn new skills and polish pre-existing skills so that they are able to actively participate in the community and related events and programs.

We a focus on, personal wellbeing and personal growth to successfully connect to the community. Our exceptional team is dedicated to your cause and helps you gain confidence in every step you take. Our Innovative Community Participation service is tailored to best suit the participant, and their goals, to allow them to get the most out of the service

The following services are included in our Innovative Community Participation program:

  • Assistance with setting up your own small business
  • Assistance with finding suitable employment
  • we assist you in building up on your skills so that you can effectively and independently find gainful employment
  • Self-awareness and self-care
  • Workshops to learn new skills
  • we assist you to access training and employment opportunities
  • Mentoring to overcome any challenges you face at your workplace
  • Participation in free community events

Development of Life Skills

We mainly focus on developing skills, promoting independence and improving confidence in all our participants’ lives, we will work with so that you can live as independently as possible. Developing life skills will help in processing life challenges easily.

Some of the services that we can offer under our Life Skills Development Program are

  • Assistance with budgeting and managing finances
  • Attending Medical appointments
  • Assistance with paying bills
  • Assistance with resume building
  • Public transport training
  • Assistance with literacy and numeracy
  • Assistance with community participation
  • Assistance with Household Tasks
  • Assistance with Meal preparation
  • Assistance with diet planning
  • Support to develop social networks and friendships

Household Tasks

Patience Care Services provide assist with household tasks to allow the participant to become more active to handle their daily tasks on their own or with minimal assistance. We support to enable you to live as independently as possible. and ensure that you live in a safe, healthy environment where you are comfortable and independent at all times.

We work with you to ensure that your home is cared for just the way you like it. Our services are available on a regular or occasional basis, depending on your choice.

Our support workers are able to assist you with the following tasks

  • Assistance with shopping
  • Assistance with household management skills
  • Vacuuming, sweeping and mopping
  • Changing bed sheets
  • Lawn mowing
  • Washing, drying, ironing and putting away Laundry
  • Cleaning the bathroom or kitchen
  • Caring for plants or pets
  • Daily assistance with household cleaning
  • Meal preparation

Assistive Products for Household

Patience Care Services believes in supporting people living with disability in every way we can. Assistive products for household support are offered in the comfort of your home but can also be provided in a community environment as required. Our services are tailored to suit your needs and enhance independence, health, and wellbeing. These services can be offered as short or long-term support.

Here is a list of some of the services we can provide

  • Ramp Handrails
  • Assistive devices for floor cleaning
  • Assistive devices for washing clothes
  • Assistive devices for dishwashing
  • Assistive devices for cooking
  • Implant speech processors
  • Programmable memory aids
  • Alarms and door bells 
  • Adapted clocks
  • anti-slip bath mat

Community Participation

We at Patience Care Services, realise how important community participation is for the overall wellbeing of an individual. Our Community Participation Support program provides opportunities for meaningful community inclusion and developing your skills, thus increasing your potential for employment and having a quality life.

We encourage and support you to go out and about, meet new people and try new things.  We are here for you every step of the way, as you find your niche in society. We value your independence and celebrate every small step you take to achieve your goals and aspirations.

Here is a list of some of the services we can provide

  • Attending community or social events
  • Attending personal development courses
  • Visiting the local library
  • Watching movies
  • Going on a vacation and camps
  • Joining a sporting club
  • Going to the bank or post office
  • Attending health and medical appointments
  • Attending Recreational activities
  • Attending Skill Building classes
  • Participation in social groups
  • Spending quality time with friends and family

Plan Management

Plan Management is a service that Patience Care Services offers to assist you with all the financial tasks associated with your NDIS plan. Our plan management service focuses entirely on strengthening the NDIS participant’s ability to manage the financial management of supports.

We help you to understand your NDIS plan and its budget and assist you with finding the right support and services to help you achieve your goal and manage it. We ensure that you get the most out of your plan without you having to take on the administrative burden.

Our Plan Management includes the following services:

  • Help you to improve financial and plan management skills
  • Help you to Manage monthly budget
  • Making payments to providers
  • Planning monthly statements
  • Claiming for payment from the NDIS portal
  • Your Annual Plan Review
  • Coordinating services agreement and service delivery with service providers

Therapeutic Supports

Our experienced supports team provide specialist therapeutic supports to participants with an approved NDIS plan will support you with information, medication management, motivation, counselling, care coordination, and care escalations. We are able to provide assessment and tailor an approach to treatment that helps individuals achieve their goals.

The following are included in our NDIS Therapeutic Support Program:

Occupational Therapy – will help you to develop your functional skills to improving your day-to-day participation and independence. This will also include assessments for daily activities such as showering and cooking.

Behaviour Support – is designed to help you achieve your goals surrounding your mental health, behaviour and relationships. Assistance is provided so that you, your family and or your carers can implement positive behaviour strategies.

Speech Therapy – Speech pathologists assist you with communication. Speech pathologists treat communication disorders, including difficulties with speaking, listening, understanding language, reading, writing, social skills, stuttering and using voice.

Physiotherapy – Physiotherapy is treatment which can restore, maintain, and make the most of a patient’s mobility, function, and well-being.

Support Coordination

Patience Care Services is a NDIS disability service provider in Melbourne, our services are planned to fit your individual needs and goals and take your circumstances and levels of complexity into consideration. We work with you and your family to build capacity so that we can work together to make you more independent.

Support Connection – This support service builds your ability to connect with informal, community and funded supports – Generally provided by the LACs

Support coordination – This support service includes a support coordinator who will work with you to ensure coordination of various supports to increase your capacity to maintain relationships, manage service delivery tasks, live more independently and participate in your community.

Some of our Support Coordination services

  • Assist with your NDIS plan and help you with your upcoming NDIS plan reviews.
  • help you to connect with the community and mainstream supports, such as health services, housing and education.
  • Ensure service agreements and service bookings are completed.
  • Assist you to ‘optimize’ your plan ensuring that you are getting the most out of your funded supports.
  • Help you to identify and purchase the supports and services you need to achieve your goals
  • Work with you to identify, develop, coordinate and access supports and services on your behalf, or assist you and your family to access supports and services on your own.
  • Support you to have a better understanding of the NDIS and empower you to manage your support and funding.
  • Assistance with decision making
  • Life planning and goal planning
  • Implementing long term plans of support
  • Capacity building skills
  • Resolving points of crisis
  • Development of independent self-care and living skills
  • Applying for rental tenancy
  • Life transition planning including mentoring, peer support and individual skill development
  • Understanding utility bills
  • Linkage to Mainstream supports
  • Maintaining a budget plan

Group/Centre Activities

Patience Care Services has Centre-based Activities and Groups to promote socialisation. These Centre-based Activities are facilitated by support workers and has self-directed skill building activities. our participants the choice of undertaking activities independently or with the assistance of a worker. The range of activities we provide is restricted only by our participant’s imagination.

We support you as you venture out into the community to get involved in local community groups, centers, events and clubs. We want you to feel confident by learning new skills and developing old ones

The following are a list of some of the group activities that we support you to participate in:

  • Participating in social outings
  • Gestalt Recovery Pathway
  • Attending Cooking classes
  • Going to the movies
  • Playing golf or bowling
  • Joining a sport club or coaching lessons
  • Joining a club of your liking like a book, walking, gardening, fishing or cooking club