About us Open Arms Community Services (OACS) is an accredited NDIS service provider that assists individuals with physical and psychosocial disabilities nationwide. Our primary goal as a registered NDIS service provider is to ensure that our NDIS participants have the freedom to choose the services they want and how they want to receive them. OACS places high importance on safeguarding the fundamental rights of NDIS participants through advocacy efforts and is committed to promoting inclusion, active participation, equal opportunities, and accessibility in alignment with both legal requirements and OACS protocols.
When utilizing OACS services, you can expect to receive assistance and direction in the identification and establishment of your personal goals. Our committed team prioritizes your beliefs, values, and support preferences in order to empower you to reach your objectives. Mission statement OACS is dedicated to delivering high-quality support services through the promotion of autonomy and the enhancement of daily living skills, ultimately aiming to enhance the quality of life for individuals in the community who are living with disabilities or mental illnesses.
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.