Getting to Know Us

Hello. How are you? We welcome you with open arms to our outstanding community services hub with our first blog post introducing ourselves to you and your loved ones.

Our team

Here at Open Arms Community Services (OACS) we are made up of four highly motivated and dedicated staff members (and friends) 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 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.