As participant needs become increasingly complex, many disability providers are supporting individuals living with diabetes. Understanding high intensity diabetes supports under the NDIS is essential to ensuring participant safety, promoting independence, and meeting best practice standards.
Whether you're a disability support worker, team leader, or provider, having appropriately trained staff is critical when supporting participants who require diabetes management.
Under the NDIS, some participants require support with health-related tasks that are considered high intensity daily personal activities.
These supports may include:
🩸 Blood glucose monitoring
💉 Supporting insulin administration under appropriate delegation and supervision
📋 Following diabetes management plans
⚠️ Recognising and responding to changes in a participant's condition
These supports carry greater risk, workers must have the appropriate training, knowledge, and competency before providing assistance.
Diabetes management is about much more than monitoring blood sugar levels.
Support workers need to understand:
Appropriate training helps workers provide safe, person-centred support while building confidence in their role.
For disability providers, ensuring staff are appropriately trained is an important part of delivering safe and effective supports.
Training can help providers:
✔️ Strengthen workforce capability
✔️ Support participant wellbeing
✔️ Reduce risks associated with diabetes management
✔️ Promote consistent care practices
✔️ Align with NDIS expectations and best practice standards
As participant needs evolve, investing in workforce development is becoming increasingly important across the disability sector.
Effective diabetes support isn't just about managing health conditions—it's about empowering participants to maintain independence and achieve their goals.
When support workers understand diabetes management and can respond appropriately to changing circumstances, participants can feel safer, more supported, and more confident in their daily lives.
Our NDIS High Intensity Diabetes Workshop is designed to provide disability support workers and providers with the practical knowledge and skills required to support participants living with diabetes.
Participants gain an understanding of:
🩸Blood glucose monitoring
🩸 Diabetes management principles
🩸 Recognising and responding to diabetes-related concerns
🩸 Safe support practices
🩸 Participant-centred care
🩸Administration of insulin (and ability to)
Whether you're an individual support worker looking to expand your skills or a provider seeking workforce training solutions, our NDIS High Intensity Diabetes Workshop can help your team deliver safe and effective support including practice with a synthetic arm on the administration of insulin.
👉 Contact our team for group bookings
👉 Learn more about our NDIS High Intensity Support training options
Support participant safety. Build workforce confidence. Deliver quality care. 🩸💙