Finding & Managing Support Workers for Blindness & Low Vision
How support workers help with Blindness & Low Vision, how to find the right one on Novida, and how to manage them well under your NDIS plan.
Support workers provide the hands-on, everyday help that makes an NDIS plan real — personal care, getting out into the community, and building daily-living skills. This guide covers what they do for Blindness & Low Vision, how to find the right person, and how to manage them well.
What support workers do for Blindness & Low Vision
Blindness and low vision encompass a spectrum of visual impairment from mild reduction in visual acuity or visual field loss through to total blindness. The World Health Organization defines low vision as best-corrected…
Finding the right support worker
The right match matters as much as the right skills. On Novida you can:
Managing your support workers
However you engage them, a few things keep support working well:
Self-managing, plan-managing or agency
How you manage your plan affects which workers you can use: self-managed and plan-managed participants can engage independent workers as well as agencies, while NDIA-managed plans use registered providers. See "NDIS…