NDIS Personal Care in Adelaide

NDIS personal care in Adelaide is help with the everyday tasks that keep you clean, comfortable and ready for your day. Kindora Connect is a Registered NDIS Provider, and our support workers visit you at home to help with showering, dressing, grooming and the routines that matter to you.

You stay in charge of how support happens. We plan each visit around your preferences, your privacy and the way you like things done, so help feels respectful rather than rushed.

Our support workers visit homes across the north and north-east, from Modbury, where our office is, to Tea Tree Gully and Mawson Lakes.

What does NDIS personal care include?

Personal care covers the hands-on tasks you need help with, at the times of day that suit you. Depending on your plan and needs, a support worker can help with:

• showering, bathing and drying off
• dressing and undressing, including braces or compression garments you already use
• hair care, shaving, oral care and skin care
• toileting and continence routines, including changing continence aids
• getting in and out of bed, or moving between a chair and the bathroom
• reminders to take medication, if that is part of your agreed plan
• morning and evening routines, so you are ready for work, study or a day out

If you need help with complex health-related tasks such as catheter care, enteral feeding or complex bowel care, read about our high intensity personal care. Those supports need specific training for each person.

Who is NDIS personal care for?

Personal care suits people whose disability makes some daily tasks unsafe, tiring or impossible to do alone. For example:

• you live on your own and want help getting ready each morning before work or study
• a family member has been doing your personal care and you want paid support to share the load
• you are home from hospital and need extra help while you get back into your routine
• your support coordinator is looking for a provider who can offer regular morning or evening visits

Families often contact us first. If you are enquiring for someone else, our guide on how family members can enquire about support explains what to have ready.

How is personal care funded under the NDIS?

Personal care is usually paid from the core supports budget in your NDIS plan, under the support category called assistance with daily life. The NDIS describes this category as help with daily tasks such as personal care, cleaning and cooking.

Core supports funding is flexible. You can usually move it between core support categories to suit your goals, as long as the supports are ones the NDIS can fund and are in line with your plan.

We work with NDIA-managed, plan-managed and self-managed participants. Before support starts, we agree a service agreement with you that sets out the supports, the times and how we will be paid.

What does a typical personal care visit look like?

A morning visit might start with a quick check-in about how you slept and what your day holds. Your support worker then helps with the parts of your routine you have asked for, such as a shower and getting dressed, and leaves you ready to go.

Visits follow your plan, not a script. If you prefer to do some tasks yourself, your worker steps back. If something seems different, such as new pain or a skin concern, they tell you and, with your consent, the people you have asked us to keep informed.

How do we match support workers and keep personal care safe?

Personal care is close, private work, so the right match matters. When you start with us we ask about your routine, your communication style and any preferences, such as the gender of your support worker.

Our support workers hold an NDIS Worker Screening Check, current First Aid and CPR, and a Certificate III in Individual Support or are working towards it. As a registered provider, we must make sure workers in these roles have a screening clearance.

Everyone who works with you follows the NDIS Code of Conduct. That includes respecting your privacy, supporting you with care and skill, and raising any concern about your safety or the quality of your support.