Personal Care & Daily Living
PowerCare delivers everyday personal care in Sydney — showering, dressing, medication prompting, getting up and getting to bed — including high-intensity personal care for participants with complex clinical needs.
What this support is
Personal care is help with the parts of the day that come before everything else: getting out of bed, showering, dressing, toileting, oral care, eating, medication prompting, and getting to bed again at the end of it.
PowerCare is registered for both levels of it — standard personal care (registration group 107, Assist-Personal Activities) and high-intensity personal care (registration group 104), which is the one most providers do not hold.
The difference between standard and high-intensity
Standard personal care is help with daily activities. High-intensity personal care is the same daily activities where the participant also has clinical needs that require specific training and registered-nurse oversight — a tracheostomy, PEG feeding, a catheter, complex bowel care, severe dysphagia, complex wounds, or subcutaneous injections.
Where a support is high intensity, it is delivered either by registered nurses, or by support workers who hold high-intensity training and work under registered-nurse supervision — depending on the participant’s clinical needs and circumstances.
This matters practically: it means you do not need a separate clinical provider and a separate personal-care provider who never speak to each other. One team, one plan.
What a shift looks like
A morning shift is usually the same shape: the worker arrives, and the person gets up, gets clean, gets dressed, gets fed, and gets on with the day. Where clinical supports are in the plan, they happen inside that shift rather than as a separate visit from a stranger.
Evening shifts run the other way. Overnight support, where funded, means someone is there for the parts of the night that are hardest to cover.
The support is written down before the first shift and the same small team delivers it, so nobody has to re-explain how they like their day to run.
Who it’s for
Participants who need hands-on help with everyday activities, including those with complex clinical needs who have been told elsewhere that they are too complicated to support.
How to start
Call us. We will ask what the day actually needs, read your plan with you, and tell you honestly whether we can deliver it and when. If we cannot, we will say so on that call.
One team, not a referral chain.
Most participants need more than one of these. Every support below is delivered by the same PowerCare team, under the same registration.
Tell us what's happening.
One call. A real person. An honest answer about whether we can help — including if the answer is no. Registered NDIS provider in Sydney.