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Someone who already knows the way to your door.

Support in your own home, right across Wyndham. We build rosters around people who already live near you — because that is what decides whether a week holds together or quietly falls apart.

  • Support at your own kitchen table
  • Workers who live nearby
  • Out in the places you already go
  • More of your life back in your hands
RegisteredNDIS provider 405 016 1543
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Werribee& surrounding Wyndham
TarneitA Gencare home in your shire

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405 016 1543
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Four people, four different questions

Who’s asking?

“I have a plan and I do not really know what I am allowed to ask for.”

Start with the week, not the jargon

Nobody should have to learn a funding vocabulary to get help with a shower. Bring your plan to a Meet & Greet and we will read it with you and say plainly what it buys — including where it falls short, which is worth knowing before a review rather than after.

You might think: I have to know what I need before I call.

No. Working that out is the first thing we do together, and it is free. Turning up without the right words is the normal way to start.

Have someone read your plan with you

Start with the week, not the jargon

“I have a plan and I do not really know what I am allowed to ask for.”

Nobody should have to learn a funding vocabulary to get help with a shower. Bring your plan to a Meet & Greet and we will read it with you and say plainly what it buys — including where it falls short, which is worth knowing before a review rather than after.

I have to know what I need before I call. No. Working that out is the first thing we do together, and it is free. Turning up without the right words is the normal way to start.

You are allowed to interrogate us

“I need to know I can trust these people with my son.”

The questions that matter are who exactly will come, what happens when that person is unwell, and who answers the phone at six. We would rather you ask all of that now than find out in March. Below you will find the people by name and the things we cannot do.

Asking hard questions will make us a difficult client. It makes you an informed one, and any provider who treats it as friction is telling you something useful about themselves.

You do not need a reason beyond that

“Different faces every week, and nobody tells me anything.”

Check the notice period in your agreement — that is the one thing worth knowing before you move. We will coordinate the handover around it, so nothing stops while it happens.

Changing means a gap in my support. It should not. The handover is our job to arrange, not yours, and it happens alongside your current service rather than after it ends.

The honest answer, before you send the referral

“Can you actually staff this, in this postcode, at these hours?”

We will tell you what we can cover in Wyndham and what we cannot, by locality and by time of day, rather than accepting a referral and improvising. If we are not the right fit for a participant we will say so early enough for you to place them properly.

Every provider says yes, so the answer is meaningless. Which is exactly why ours is worth having in writing. Ask us to put the limits in the service agreement.

NDIS Reg. No. 405 016 1543· valid to 2028
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Why distance decides everything here

Wyndham is not one trip.

If your shifts keep getting moved or quietly cancelled, this is usually why — and it is arithmetic rather than carelessness.

  • Wyndham covers more ground than a handful of inner suburbs put together.

  • New estates arrive before the bus routes reach them.

  • The gaps between Werribee, Tarneit, Point Cook and Wyndham Vale are genuinely long.

So an arrangement that looks tidy on paper comes apart on the drive.

  1. Travel between clients is unpaid time.

    A worker crossing the shire between two participants absorbs that trip themselves. It is not billed to you and it is not free to them.

  2. So short shifts far apart fall over first.

    A two-hour visit at one end of Wyndham and another at the other end is the arrangement that stops working, because the maths does not work for the person driving.

  3. Which makes proximity a rostering decision, not a nicety.

    Blocked hours close to home hold for years. Hours scattered across the shire do not, however good the intentions were when the plan was written.

So we build rosters around who genuinely lives near you, and we say plainly when we cannot. You can use this tonight, with any provider: ask them to block your hours rather than scatter them.

Where we work

Wyndham, at the distances it actually has.

Six localities our coverage is on the record for, placed where they really sit. The gaps are the point.

Choose what to show on the diagram
Choose a locality to read about

Not listed is not the same as not covered. Tell us your street and we will say plainly what we can put near you.

Werribee

The centre, and where most of what we do here happens. Every other name on this list is placed from it.

Hoppers Crossing

Immediately north-east, sharing a boundary with Werribee. Close enough that one worker can genuinely hold a roster across both.

Point Cook

East, toward the bay — and further from Tarneit than either of them is from Werribee. The shire is wider than it looks.

Tarneit

North, and the reason this page can show you a home in your own municipality: the one Gencare supported-living house in Wyndham is here.

Truganina

The far north-east. With Wyndham Vale it makes the longest pair on this list — two localities in one council area that share almost nothing about a working week.

Wyndham Vale

West, and the closest of the five to Werribee. Also the other end of that longest pair: the same shire as Truganina, and a different roster entirely.

Choose a place to read about

Coverage maps are drawn for providers. What matters is whether support reaches the handful of places your week is already made of.

Home

where almost all of it happens

The shops on Watton Street

and getting there and back

Appointments at Werribee Mercy

coordinated around, not worked around

The pool, the park, the library

the ordinary week

TAFE, work, volunteering

whatever you are building towards

Named as the geography of an ordinary Wyndham week. None of these is a partnership, a premises or an endorsement — they are simply where life happens here.

The question everybody asks first

Is your street covered?

A real answer, straight away. Tap one of ours to see how it answers, or type your own.

Or try one of these

Checked: Tarneit

Yes — that is one of the localities our coverage is on the record for.

What we cannot promise before meeting you is a named worker at a named hour. That depends on who actually lives near your street and the times you need, and we would rather say so now than after you have signed something.

Tell us your street

Nothing you just checked was sent to us, stored, or used to contact you.

Yes — that is one of the localities our coverage is on the record for. What we cannot promise before meeting you is a named worker at a named hour. That depends on who actually lives near your street and the times you need, and we would rather say so now than after you have signed something.

Almost certainly — you are in the part of Melbourne where our team is most established. What no widget can tell you is a named worker at a named hour. Tell us the street and we will tell you what we can genuinely put near you, including if the answer is not yet.

That is outside the area this page covers — which is not the same as outside Gencare. We work across Melbourne and regional Victoria, so the useful next step is the page closest to you rather than an enquiry this one could not serve well.

Why proximity is the whole roster

The same support, two distances.

Both of these are a qualified worker who wants the job. Only one of them is still there in March.

Ten minutes away

  • A changed appointment moves the day, not the week.
  • The same person keeps turning up, so you stop re-explaining yourself.

Ten minutes away

  • A changed appointment moves the day, not the week.
  • The same person keeps turning up, so you stop re-explaining yourself.

The next suburb over

  • Most weeks still hold. This is not the distance that breaks a roster.
  • Short-notice cover is the first thing to stop being realistic.

Across the city

  • One traffic incident turns a shift into a missed shift.
  • The worker turns over, and the next person starts from nothing.

This is why we would rather tell you that we cannot cover a time yet than fill it with somebody who will not last.

A worker who lives ten minutes away can hold a roster that a worker crossing the West Gate never will.

Nobody explains these, and everyone assumes you know

The words nobody explains.

Seven terms you will meet in any conversation about support. The short answer is on every line — open the one that has been stopping you.

SILSupported Independent Living
It pays for the people, not the bricks.

People assume: SIL is a kind of house.

What it means: Funding for the SUPPORT you receive while living in a shared or individual home — the people, the overnight cover, the help through the day.

SDASpecialist Disability Accommodation
SDA pays for the building. SIL pays for the support inside it.

People assume: SDA and SIL are the same funding.

What it means: Funding for the DWELLING itself — housing that is purpose-built or modified for people with very high support needs or extreme functional impairment.

STAShort-Term Accommodation — most people say respite
A break, for everyone involved — and it can happen at home.

People assume: respite always means going away somewhere.

What it means: Short-Term Accommodation funds the accommodation and the support you need for a short break from your usual arrangement. The support is the heart of it — which is why a break does not always have to mean going away. Depending on your circumstances, meals and some activities can be part of a stay too.

MTAMedium-Term Accommodation
Somewhere to be while the real place gets ready.

People assume: it is the same thing as respite.

What it means: Medium-Term Accommodation funds a place to stay for up to around 90 days when you are waiting to move into a confirmed long-term home. It is about safety and stability in the in-between — with support arranged around you.

Support coordinationThree levels, and they are genuinely different
Somebody whose job is the whole week, not one shift of it.

People assume: the three levels are one service at different prices.

What it means: Help to understand your plan, find services, and hold them to what they agreed. Support Connection is the lightest touch; Support Coordination is the common one; Specialist Support Coordination is for situations with real risk or several systems at once.

Core vs Capacity BuildingThe two budgets you will hear about most
One keeps this week working. The other is aimed at next year.

People assume: the two budgets do the same job.

What it means: Core pays for the everyday — personal care, help at home, getting places. Capacity Building pays for things meant to reduce how much help you need later, like learning a skill or building a routine.

Plan managementSelf-managed, plan-managed, agency-managed
It decides who pays the invoice — and that is not us.

People assume: a provider can manage the money as well.

What it means: Not a support — a way the money is administered. Self-managed means you pay providers yourself; plan-managed means a plan manager does it; agency-managed means the NDIA pays registered providers directly.

Not something we offer
What it actually looks like

A week, not a service list.

Nobody wakes up wanting to buy a support category. They want Tuesday to go better than it did last Tuesday. So here is a week — and the supports underneath it are the ones that make each part of it possible.

Around all of it

Support coordination

Somebody whose job is the whole week rather than one shift of it — finding the services, holding them to their agreements, and sorting it out when one falls over. In Wyndham that is mostly local knowledge: which practices have capacity, which return a call, and which appointment is worth the drive.

Support Coordination — Level 2
Choose a day of the week
Monday, early

Getting the day started

Showering, dressing, medication, breakfast. The unglamorous part that decides whether the rest of the day is possible at all.

Tuesday, 10am

The appointment across town

Getting there, being supported while you are there, getting home again. In a suburb built for cars, this is the part that quietly decides how big your week is.

Wednesday, afternoon

Something that is yours

A class, a group, a gym, volunteering — somewhere you are expected each week. It does more for most people than another hour of help at home.

Thursday

Keeping the house yours

Cleaning, laundry, the shopping, a meal that is not from a packet. Practical, undramatic, and the difference between a home and a place you sleep.

Friday

Learning to need us less

Cooking a meal start to finish. Managing a route on your own. Budgeting a fortnight. The support that is designed to reduce itself.

The weekend, sometimes

A break, for everyone

A short stay away, or support at home while the people who usually care for you rest properly. It is for both of you, and it is not a sign anything has failed.

And when the week needs a nurse

Community nursing and high-intensity personal care are delivered at home too, which is often what keeps an arrangement viable as needs increase.

What we can show you, and what we cannot

Seven houses. Two we can show you.

All seven are in Melbourne’s west, and one is in Wyndham. Two of them have been photographed, and these are those two. The other five are named underneath rather than illustrated with somebody else’s house.

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  • The front of the Deanside home: a single-storey house with a timber front door and a wide timber garage door.
    Outside · Deanside

    Flat from the street to the front door, and flat again into the garage. Nothing to negotiate on the way in.

    A single-storey brick home with a tiled roof, timber-clad entry and a wide double garage. The concrete driveway runs flat from the street to the front door and into the garage — no steps at the entrance. A small landscaped garden sits beside the porch.
  • Kitchen with a large island bench, double sink, gas cooktop, oven and a walk-in pantry.
    Kitchen · Deanside

    The island bench faces the living area, so whoever is cooking is never shut away from the room.

    A generous kitchen with a stone island bench and double sink facing into the living area, so someone cooking is never shut away from the room. Gas cooktop, wall oven, timber and dark cabinetry, and a walk-in pantry beside the fridge.
  • A tiled shower with a glass screen and a handheld shower head on an adjustable rail.
    Shower · Deanside

    A handheld head on an adjustable rail rather than a fixed rose — which is what makes showering seated, or assisted, possible.

    A fully tiled shower with a glass screen and a handheld shower head on an adjustable rail — which is what makes seated showering or being assisted possible, rather than a fixed overhead rose. A recessed shelf is set into the wall, and a vanity with a basin sits immediately alongside.
  • The front of the Albion home: a single-storey rendered house with a pitched metal roof, a front garden and a lawn.
    Outside · Albion

    A second house, in a second suburb. There is a low step at this entry — better you see it here than on the day.

    A single-storey rendered house in pale green with a pitched green metal roof and a tall chimney. A concrete path runs from the front lawn to a recessed porch and the front door; there is a low step up at the entry rather than a level threshold. Garden beds with roses and grasses sit either side, and a concrete driveway runs down the right-hand side of the property.
  • A large flat grassed backyard with a garden shed, a rotary clothesline and a basketball hoop, enclosed by timber fencing.
    Garden · Albion

    Level lawn rather than steps or terracing, a clothesline you can reach, and room to be outside without leaving the property.

    A big, flat, fully fenced backyard laid to lawn, with a timber paling fence around it. There is a rotary clothesline, a freestanding basketball hoop, a metal garden shed in the corner and a few small trees along one fence. The ground is level grass rather than steps or terracing, and there is a lot of open room — enough to sit outside, hang washing, or simply be outdoors without leaving the property.

Two of the seven are photographed. These five are not.

  • Fraser Rise
  • Melton
  • Cobblebank
  • St Albans
  • Tarneit

A house that is not ours is not evidence.

Photographed while the houses stood empty, before anybody moved in, which is why the rooms are bare. Nothing has been staged to look like something it is not.

The Tarneit home — the one in your municipality — is one of the five. If it is the reason you are here, the honest next step is a conversation rather than a brochure.


Choose a detail of this room to read about
One house, properly

Come in. This is the Deanside home.

The five things people actually ask about when they walk in are numbered on the photograph — open whichever one matters to you.

Overnight support is on site. The house is shared, which means whether it suits you depends as much on the people already living there as on the building.

The open-plan living, dining and kitchen area of the Deanside home: a tiled floor running unbroken from a timber dining table, past a sofa, to a kitchen island, with a wide cased opening in the far wall.

1An opening, not a door

No leaf, no handle, nothing to pull toward you while you are already moving through it.

2One bench height, and it is the standard one

Nothing in this kitchen has been lowered, and there is no knee space under the bench. If that is what decides it for you, it is worth saying before you visit rather than after.

3One surface, the whole way

Tile from the dining table through to the kitchen. No step, no threshold strip, no rug edge to lift a castor over.

4Nothing fixed in the middle

The table moves and so does every chair around it. We have not measured the turning space, so bring a tape if that is the number the decision rests on.

5The lounge is the same room

No corridor between the sofa and the table. Whoever is cooking is still in the conversation.

What this photograph cannot show you

A flat concrete driveway from the street to the front door — no step at the entrance — wide internal doorways, a level shower, and a garden you can actually get into. The driveway and the shower are both in the frames above.

Walk through it

The part a photograph cannot do.

A still frame flattens a house. Walking through one shows you the things people actually ask us about afterwards — the light, how wide the hallways really are, and where the kitchen sits in the room.

This is the Deanside house, in Melton. It is the home we can film properly, and the questions it answers are the ones the Tarneit house raises too.

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Deanside has places available, with overnight support on site.

Confirmed with our team, 20 August 2026.

Deanside is in Melton, not Wyndham. We are showing it because it is the home we can show you properly — and because the questions it answers are the same questions the Tarneit home raises.

The Deanside home in detail
Two roads, and we are not selling either

A home isn’t the only answer.

Most of Movement III has been about houses. For a lot of people the right answer is not a house at all, so here are both, at the same size.

Many people who ask us about a supported home end up staying where they are with more support instead. That is not a lesser outcome, and we are not paid more for the other one.

Two options, in no order

Stay where you are, with support coming in

Support arrives at your own front door — the morning routine, personal care, getting to appointments, the shopping, whatever the week needs. Nothing about where you live changes. It suits most people who ask us about a home, and it can be increased later without moving.

Where you live
Exactly where you live now
Who it suits
Most people who ask us about a home
And later
Support can grow without moving
Daily living and personal care

A supported home, shared with others

A house with support on site, shared with a small number of other people. It suits some people very well and others not at all, and whether a place is even available depends on who already lives there. It is a bigger change, and worth taking slowly.

Where you live
A shared house, with staff on site
Who it suits
Some people very well, others not at all
And later
A bigger change, worth taking slowly
Supported independent living
Four words for somewhere to live

Which of these we can actually do.

People arrive on this page searching for NDIS accommodation in Werribee and meet four different words used as though they were one thing. They are not. We can do three of them, and the fourth is worth knowing about before you spend an enquiry on us.

How long it is for
  1. STAA short stay
  2. MTAThe in-between
  3. SILOngoing

We do the people, and the stays

We do not do the building

SIL

Yes — and there is a house in your own shire

Supported independent living

Support in a shared home, with staff on site. All 7 Gencare homes are in Melbourne’s west, and one of them is in Tarneit — the same municipality as Werribee. Whether a place is available depends entirely on who already lives there, which is not something a website can tell you.

Ask about the Tarneit home
STA

Yes — and it does not have to mean going away

Short-term accommodation, which most people call respite

A break, for everyone involved. The support is the heart of it rather than the building, so depending on your circumstances it can happen at home while the people who usually care for you rest properly. Our Deanside home also takes short stays.

MTA

Yes — for the in-between

Medium-term accommodation

Somewhere stable to be for up to around ninety days while a confirmed long-term home gets ready. It is about not being stuck while arrangements are made. Deanside takes these too.

SDA

This one we do not own

Specialist disability accommodation

SDA funding pays for the dwelling itself — housing that is purpose-built or modified for very high support needs. Gencare does not own or operate an SDA-enrolled home. What we can do is help you find one that fits and provide the support inside it, which is a different job. If an SDA dwelling is what you actually need, we would rather tell you now than take an enquiry we cannot finish.

What SDA is, and how it pairs with support

The short version: SDA pays for the building, SIL pays for the people inside it, and respite and medium-term stays cover the weeks in between. We do the people, and the stays. We do not do the building.

Work out the shape

Which supports your week points to.

Pick the part of the week that is hardest. This names the supports that usually cover it and the budget the NDIS usually funds them from — so you can walk into a planning conversation knowing what to ask for.

What is hardest about the week right now?

Showering, dressing, medication, breakfast — the part that decides whether the rest of the day is possible.

Usually funded from
Core SupportsAssistance with Daily Life.
What to ask for
Ask for assistance with daily life, and say which hours of the morning are the hard ones.

Laundry, dishes, changing the sheets, keeping the place somewhere you would want a visitor.

Usually funded from
Core SupportsAssistance with daily life, household tasks.
What to ask for
Ask for household tasks, and name the jobs that are not getting done rather than the hours.

The shops, an appointment, a class, seeing somebody — and the travel that makes any of it happen.

Usually funded from
Core SupportsAssistance with social and community participation.
What to ask for
Ask for social and community participation, and mention transport separately — it is often forgotten.

Somebody there overnight, either asleep and available or awake — because the risk does not stop at bedtime.

Usually funded from
Core SupportsBased on an assessed roster of care.
What to ask for
Ask for an assessed roster of care, and describe what actually happens at night in detail.

Services that do not talk to each other, appointments nobody booked, a plan nobody is driving.

Usually funded from
Capacity BuildingSupport coordination sits here, not in Core.
What to ask for
Ask for support coordination by level, and ask what happens when a service falls over.

A short stay somewhere else, so the people doing the unpaid work get to stop for a while.

Usually funded from
Core SupportsYour Core supports budget.
What to ask for
Ask about short-term accommodation, and say plainly how long it has been since anyone had a break.

This is not a quote and not a funding determination. It gives no dollars and no hours, because only a planner decides those, and the NDIA price limits change. What it gives you is the right words for the conversation.

Before we talk about supports

The week nobody sees.

Not the week in the plan. The other one — the one that does not appear in any funding line and never stops.

  • You are awake at four because they are, and you will still be awake at seven.
  • The pharmacy run that cannot be handed to anyone else.
  • Three phone calls to move one appointment.
  • A shift nobody turned up for, and the day off that vanished with it.
  • Your other child, getting whatever is left over.
  • The forms. Always the forms.

None of that is in a support plan, and all of it is the actual week.

What actually changes

One Tuesday, two ways.

The same ordinary day, with and without support in it. Small differences, on purpose — this is what it looks like when a week starts holding.

Choose which Tuesday to read
  1. 6.30am

    Tuesday nowYou have already been up for two hours, and the day has not started.

    Tuesday with supportSomeone else does the morning routine. You drink a coffee while it is hot.

  2. 9.00am

    Tuesday nowThe appointment. You drive, you park, you wait, you explain it all again.

    Tuesday with supportGetting there is arranged, and somebody who knows the history comes in with you.

  3. 12.30pm

    Tuesday nowLunch standing up, between the washing and a call to the plan manager.

    Tuesday with supportLunch sitting down. The washing is already done.

  4. 2.00pm

    Tuesday nowThe hour you meant to rest in goes on the phone, chasing somebody.

    Tuesday with supportAn hour that belongs to nobody but you.

  5. 6.00pm

    Tuesday nowDinner, medications, the evening routine, and you are the only one doing it.

    Tuesday with supportYou are in the room, not running it. That is a different kind of evening.

An illustration of how a week can be built — not a description of a real participant’s day, and not a promise about yours. What is possible depends on your plan and on who lives near you.

The part we would rather you heard from us

There is no Gencare office in Wyndham.

Saying that plainly is more useful than implying otherwise.


Almost everything here happens in your own home and your own community anyway — around appointments at Werribee Mercy, the shops on Watton Street, TAFE, work.

A shopfront in Werribee would not change any of that, and we are not going to open one so that a website looks better.

  • We come to you

    The first conversation happens at your kitchen table rather than a meeting room. It tells us more, and it costs you nothing to reach.

  • A house, in your own shire

    There is a Gencare supported-living home in Tarneit, the same municipality as Werribee. Not a pin on a map — a house, with people in it.

    See the house
  • A hub, when you want one

    Our nearest place to meet is the Albion support hub — by appointment, so your time there is unhurried rather than spent waiting.

    About the hub

What we cannot do is give you a door in Wyndham to walk into this afternoon. If that is what you need, we would rather you knew it now than after a phone call.

Gencare Albion support hub12 Wyalong Street, Albion VIC 3020, Australia
Before you spend an enquiry on us

And here is what we cannot do.

Any provider can list services. The useful thing is knowing where the edges are before you sign anything. So here are three of ours.

  • Promise you a named worker before we have met you and know the hours

    Not until we know your hours and who actually lives near your street. Anyone who names a person on a first call is guessing, and you would find that out in week three.

  • Guarantee a place in the Tarneit home — that depends on who already lives there

    Who lives there already decides that, and no website can answer it. Which is why the honest next step is a conversation rather than a brochure.

    The Tarneit home
  • Manage your plan. We are a provider, not a plan manager

    Plan management decides who pays the invoice. We deliver the support. Two different jobs, and one organisation holding both is not in your interest.

None of that is a sales problem. A mismatched enquiry costs you a week and costs us a bad first meeting, and we would both rather skip it.

One family, on the record

A parent in Wyndham, and a rating we cannot edit.

Two things instead of a wall of quotes: one consented family from this municipality, and a score that lives somewhere other than our own website.

The housemate matching is what sold me. They did not just fill a room — they found my son people he genuinely gets along with. The house feels like a home.

AmaraParent · Wyndham, VIC

5.0

Rated on Google

22 reviews, verified June 2026

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One quote, because one Wyndham family has consented to one. We are not going to borrow somebody else’s words to fill a wall.

The people, not a call centre

Who you would actually meet.

Coordination is not delivered by a company. It is delivered by a person, and the useful question is whether that person has held a situation like yours before. So here they are, in their own words.

Choose a coordinator to read about
Somya Verma, Specialist Support Coordinator at Gencare.
Shreya Shrestha, Support Coordinator at Gencare.
Ritusree Chakraborty, Support Coordinator at Gencare.

Somya Verma

Specialist Support Coordinator

Over 6 years in the disability sector · At Gencare since 2020

My practice is grounded in integrity, transparency, and genuine respect for participants and their families.

Why I do this

I am a dedicated and compassionate Specialist Support Coordinator with over six years of experience in the disability sector, including extensive experience in specialist support coordination.

On conflicts of interest, in their own words

I confirm that I have no actual or perceived conflicts of interest that would affect my ability to provide independent, participant-centred support coordination. I am committed to full transparency and will proactively disclose any potential conflicts that may arise.

somya@gencareservices.com.au

Shreya Shrestha

Support Coordinator

Over 5 years in the disability sector

I believe every participant deserves a voice, choice, and control — and my role is to make the NDIS feel clear, manageable, and empowering.

Why I do this

With over five years in the disability sector and specialised experience in support coordination, I understand the NDIS and how to help participants navigate their plans with confidence and clarity.

Ritusree Chakraborty

Support Coordinator

2 years in the disability sector · At Gencare since 2024

Good coordination starts with listening.

Why I do this

I am a motivated and reliable Support Coordinator, helping NDIS participants make the most of their plans and work towards their personal goals. I bring a warm, person-centred approach and I am committed to building trusted relationships with participants, their families, and the wider support network around them.

On conflicts of interest, in their own words

I declare that I hold no actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest that could affect my ability to provide independent, participant-focused support coordination. Should any conflict arise, I will disclose it promptly and transparently.

And the part that applies to all of us

  • Your specialist will show you options beyond Gencare, including providers we have no relationship with.
  • No specialist has a target, bonus or quota for referring work to other Gencare services.
  • If a Gencare service is not the best fit for you, that is what we will say.
  • You can have a Gencare specialist and use entirely different providers for everything else. That is normal, and it is your right.

If a specialist ever steers you toward Gencare without a good reason, tell us. If you would rather raise it outside Gencare, the NDIS Commission takes complaints directly.

Werribee questions

Support in Werribee, answered

Yes. Werribee sits in Melbourne’s west, which is the region where our team is most established. Support here is delivered in your own home and community rather than from a shopfront — our nearest support hub is at Albion, and there is a Gencare supported-living home in Tarneit, in the same municipality as Werribee.

Across Wyndham: Werribee, Hoppers Crossing, Point Cook, Tarneit, Truganina and Wyndham Vale. That is the list we can point to rather than the limit of where we work. Tell us your street and we will say honestly what we can put near you.

That is the right question to ask in Wyndham, because the distances are real. We roster around workers who live near you instead of sending whoever happens to be free, and if we cannot do that consistently at the times you need, we would rather tell you before you sign anything than after.

Yes, and it is one of the supports people here ask for most. A coordinator working across Wyndham needs local knowledge more than anything else — which practices have capacity, which services return a call, and which appointment is genuinely worth the drive.

There is a Gencare home in Tarneit, in the same municipality. Whether it suits depends on what you need and on the people already living there, so the honest next step is a conversation rather than a brochure. We will also tell you if a different kind of arrangement fits you better.

No. Most people prefer we come to them, and in Wyndham that is usually the sensible option — a first conversation at your kitchen table tells us more than a meeting room does. If you would rather visit, our Albion hub is the nearest and visits are by appointment.

If you call us

What actually happens next.

Four steps, in the order they really happen. No timings are quoted here, because nothing on this page measures one.

  1. You tell us the street

    Not your suburb — the street. It is the only detail that decides whether anybody we already roster lives close to you.

    You find out whether we are genuinely near you, before anything else is discussed.

  2. A free Meet & Greet

    In person or online, whichever is easier. We listen to the week you actually have rather than the services we happen to sell.

    It costs nothing, and you are under no obligation to take support from us afterwards.

  3. We look at who is already nearby

    Before a roster exists we check who lives near you and who has room. Sometimes the honest answer is that nobody does.

    You get told plainly what we can put near you — including when that is nothing.

  4. The same faces, week after week

    A roster built from people who already live close by is a roster that holds together when somebody is sick or a shift moves.

    You stop re-explaining yourself to somebody new.

One short conversation

Tell us your street.

Not your suburb — your street. In Wyndham the difference between one end and the other is the whole question, and we would rather know it before we promise you anything.

We will tell you honestly what we can put near you, and if something else fits your situation better we will say that instead.

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No forms to relive your history. Roughly what is going on, and roughly where you are, is enough.

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