About Us
About us
Open Arms Community Services (OACS) provide disability services to people in Australia. We support children and adults with sensory, intellectual, neurological, physical and psychiatric disabilities. As a registered NDIS service provider, we are dedicated to supporting our consumer’s choices and control over what services they receive and how these services are received.
OACS prioritize to uphold consumers’ fundamental rights through advocacy and will act to advocate for inclusion, effective participation, equality of opportunity and accessibility in accordance with legislation and OACS procedures.
As a consumer of OACS, you will be supported and guided through the process of identifying and setting your own goals. Our dedicated staff focus on your beliefs, values and support preferences to enable you to achieve your goals.
Mission statement
OACS commit to provide quality services by promoting autonomy, enhancing daily living skills in order to improve the quality of life of those in the community living with a disability or mental illness.
Our values
Loyalty: We will go the extra mile to ensure that you achieve your goals.
Accessibility: We respond to your needs in a timely manner.
Accountability: We keep our commitments to you.
Inclusion: We create and maintain an inclusive environment.
Our purpose
OACS seek to promote consumer’s quality of life by empowering and collaboratively building consumer capacity, to live a meaningful life.
Our promise
OACS promise to deliver a reliable, safe and inclusive service, which offers freedom of choice, values individuality, and we endeavour to go an extra mile to meet your needs.
Our team
Here at Open Arms Community Services (OACS) we are made up of four highly motivated and dedicated staff members who can’t wait to meet you and get to know you.
Three members of our team are disability support workers with a combined twenty-year industry experience, each trained with a Certificate IV in Disability and Community Services.
We also have a registered nurse who has five years’ experience in disability services, five years’ experience in general nursing, and a further four years’ experience in Community and Forensic mental health nursing.
Having obtained the necessary qualifications of Master of Nursing (Mental Health),
Bachelor of Health Sciences, and Graduate Certificate in Disability Studies
(Leadership), our registered nurse has the capabilities to conduct primary health and mental health assessments, support clients and their family/care givers with developing individualized care plans, support implementation of care plans, as well as support the evaluation of clients care plans to enable clients achieve their care goals.
Our team members’ vast knowledge and skills, gained through broad industry experience and opportunity, endeavours to drive us towards our sole purpose – improving quality of life by empowering and collaboratively building customer capacity to live a meaningful life and be happy.
FEEDBACK AND COMPLAINT FORM
We are available 24/7 by phone 0422939706 and email [email protected]. You can also use our quick contact form to ask any questions you might have.