What it's like being a Support Worker under the NDIS

  
This is a response to a close friend of mine being asked what is it like being a support worker, under a program called the NDIS. This program is a program that is supposed to help people with disabilities yet it seems to be a burden to most and create more issues proving disabilities to get the care they need. 

So I asked her the questions. 

 What is it like being a support worker? 

Being a support worker can be very rewarding, even making a small gain with someone is so rewarding. However, it also has its challenges, some of these can be overcome but others can't but you keep plugging away.

The difference between a good and bad support worker is that they think of the person as a person not a number or an easy day's work. The support worker will look to find things that interest their client or suggest alternatives and treat them the way they would like to be treated themselves.

The most frustration about clients was when you know they can do something to better themselves but choose not to. 

Frustration about organizations and the way they communicated with people with a disability was it was an easy income for them and for a lot of the clients they could get away with stuff due to clients lack of intelligence in being able to understand the different scenarios and the workings of their package.

As regards to a tax burden we all have something to offer, many of these people have heightened sensory perceptions and those with autism are often very intelligent, I would say back in the early days they were called gifted before it was renamed autism. I would also say that some of the clients I worked with were not living and would be at peace if they passed into the other world. ie, non verbal, peg fed, tubes to annus and bed ridden with 24 hrs care, however were aware of the surroundings and different people and communicated with eye movements.

I have had limited dealings with NDIS making people achieve real goals, has helped make their life easier with social outings and the support they receive. I have seen where some clients get huge packages that don't really need it and those who do need it don't get what they should. 

Changing the way a disability organization is run would be challenging, think it was better before companies had to make a profit from the NDIS where the need of the client was put first more often. You need funding to clients to be able to do activities and to fund the resources of them. Some clients have access to money whereas others don't.