Finding & Managing Support Workers for Type 1 Diabetes

How support workers help with Type 1 Diabetes, 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 Type 1 Diabetes, how to find the right person, and how to manage them well.

What support workers do for Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans, resulting in absolute insulin deficiency and lifelong…

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…

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