Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP)

This involves working with your Community Care Worker as a team and participate in household tasks that you are able to complete. The Community Care worker will assist with heavier tasks that you are unable to complete such as

• maintaining the hygiene of floor surfaces, 
• laundry and linen changes,
• maintain hygiene of shower baths and toilets,
• unaccompanied shopping or bill paying
• assisting with meal preparation

This service involves working with your Community Care Worker to provide assistance to promote your welfare, activities of daily living and health & well-being. This service supports people to be engaged in activities that are meaningful to them and encourages them to be connected with their community. The task provided by the Community Care worker will involve the following:

• Assistance with showering , bathing, undressing, dressing and toileting
• Grooming, electric shaving
• Medication prompting only
• Prescribed exercises or therapy programs with the direction of a health professional
• Mobility task within the Occupational Health and Safety Guidelines.
• Accompanied shopping or going out for coffee.

This service supports the primary carers of people living with disability. It gives them an opportunity to enjoy social activities, companionship or participate leisure activities.  Our dedicated team of Community Care workers will provide the following respite support to the care recipient:

• Planned regular respite allocated for few hours per week or fortnight
• Occasional respite allocated on an infrequent or irregular time
• Emergency respite allocated  for urgent or unplanned respite

This service can include taking the care recipient to visit family, friends locally and access the local cafés or shops. Respite is not available for care of children from other households.

This service supports eligible client within the home environment or while accessing community services, with one-on-one support. This service is primarily directed towards meeting the person’s need for social contact and/or company in order to participate in community life and feel socially included. The task provided by the Community Care worker will include the following:

• Accompanied shopping and bill-paying
• Taking clients  to medical appointments

This service provides eligible client with access to meals while in their homes. The benefits of this service may include informal health monitoring of client and supporting social participation.  Moyne Shire Community Care offers diversity with the delivery and pick up of hot and chilled meals.  Access to meals can be arranged from;

• local food providers, for example, general stores, community cooking groups, pubs and restaurants.
• In-home cooking and nutritional support provided by Community Care Workers.
• Home delivered meals through Volunteers or Community Care workers.

The provision of community transport services, assists frail older people to remain actively connected with their local community. The  aim of this services is to assist client to continue with their usual activities, such as attending community groups or medical appointments, enabling them to keep active and socially engaged. 

Our community care team can organise some transport service for medical appointments within your local community area.

Our Community Care team run Adult Social group activities in Mortlake. The service offers recreation, socialisation and respite for people living with a disability.

Our day trips offer subsidised outings for clients and their carers to different destinations each year. The trips give clients an affordable outing while maintaining daily care, with support from qualified and experienced staff.

We can also organise support and access to programs and therapies for specific behaviours or conditions across the Shire through other approved Health Services.

This service allows clients to live in a safe environment. This includes preparing your home for the bushfire season and advice on potential home-safety risks, adequate level of security, home and yard maintenance and repairs that mitigate or remove identified risks to maintain a home environment that support the client’s safety , rather than maintaining a garden’s visual or aesthetic value.

The main services Council provides are:

• lawn mowing, keeping pathways clear of shrubs and minor handyman tasks
• wiper snipping & some spraying
• changing smoke-detector batteries and light bulbs. An annual external window clean and gutter clean are  available (height restrictions apply)

This service is provided to assist eligible client with the cost of simple home modifications that might increase or maintain levels of independence, safety, accessibility and wellbeing. Modification services can also assist in creating a home environment that supports wellness and reablement and restorative practices. These modifications may include structural changes, where clinically justified, only for clients living in their own home, to increase or maintain the client’s functional independence:

The main services Council provides are:

• Installation of external and internal handrails and hand-held shower hoses.
• installation and fitting of emergency alarms and other safety aids
• hand-held showers, sliding shower rails
• removal of shower screens/doors – installation of weighted shower curtains
• lowering or removal of shower hobs
• Lever taps and door handles
• Repositioning of clotheslines, letterboxes
• Widening of pathways.
• Wheel chair ramps