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Bellarine Active Ageing OT

Occupational therapy for older adults on the Bellarine Peninsula

Supporting independence, safety and wellbeing at home

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About Bellarine Active Ageing OT

At Bellarine Active Ageing OT, we support older adults in maintaining safety, independence, and confidence within their own homes. Our mobile occupational therapy services are specifically designed for individuals on the following programs across the Bellarine Peninsula

  • Support At Home Program

  • Assistive Technology

  • Home Modifications

  • Restorative Care Pathway

  • End Of Life Pathway

  • Fee For Service

At this time, we are NOT able to accept referrals for the following programs:

  • Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP)

  • State Wide Equipment Program (SWEP)

  • National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

  • Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA)

  • Transport Accident Commission (TAC)

  • WorkCover

  • Paediatric Occupational Therapy

Our Services

Comprehensive Home Assessment

Aged Care Functional Assessment

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Equipment Prescription

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Minor Home Modifications

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Cognitive Assessment

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Personal Alarms

Palliative Care

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Falls Prevention

Disability Parking Permits

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Energy Conservation / Pacing Education

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geat2Go Applications

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Dementia / Memory Loss Support

Meet Jen

Meet Jen

Jen is a dedicated Occupational Therapist who graduated from Charles Sturt University in 2018. With a strong passion for aged care, she is committed to empowering older adults to live independently and achieve meaningful goals in their daily lives.

Jen’s experience spans a variety of government-funded aged care programs, including Short-Term Restorative Care (STRC), Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP), and Home Care Packages (HCPs). Jen brings a holistic and client-centred approach to every aspect of her work.

Before becoming an OT, Jen built a diverse career in health and human services. She has worked as a professional counsellor, workplace trainer and assessor, and a registered nurse (Division 2). Her background also includes case management and support worker coordination, giving her a well-rounded understanding of the aged care landscape.

Outside of work, Jen enjoys spending time in nature—whether it’s walking along one of the local beaches, hiking through scenic trails, camping under the stars, or flowing through a Pilates class at her local studio.

Contact Us

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Address

PO Box 1054 St Leonards Vic 3223

Phone

0488 680 412

Email

jen@baaot.com.au

Why choose Bellarine Active Ageing OT

  • Locally based on the Bellarine Peninsula

  • Mobile service visiting clients in their own homes

  • Deep understanding of aged care

  • Warm, professional approach tailored to older adults

  • Clear, collaborative communication with clients, families and providers

Bellarine Active Ageing OT Privacy Policy

About us

Bellarine Active Ageing OT is committed to ensuring the handling and protection of personal information is in accordance with relevant privacy legislation

We respect your privacy

•   Bellarine Active Ageing OT recognises your right to privacy and your right to control your personal information. Bellarine Active Ageing OT is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers and website visitors. We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This policy sets out how we collect and treat your personal information

•   ‘Personal information’ is information we hold which is identifiable as being about you

Collection of personal information

•   Bellarine Active Ageing OT may at times, receive and store personal information you enter into the ‘Client Referral’ and ‘Contact Us’ pages on our website, provided to us directly or given to us in other forms

•   The ‘Client Referral’ page on the website requires detailed information to enable Bellarine Active Ageing OT to provide relevant OT services to the nominated client

•   The ‘Contact Us’ page on the website requires you to provide basic information such as your name, phone number and email address to enable us to contact you for further information or book an appointment

•   Importantly, we will be collecting sensitive personal information relevant to client care and treatment at in-person and/or Telehealth appointments essential for the work we undertake

•   We may also collect any other information you or your caregivers provide while interacting with us via email and/or phone calls

•   Bellarine Active Ageing OT recognise the Australia Privacy Principles that recognise individuals have the option of not identifying themselves, or of using a pseudonym, however, services are not able to be provided in this instance

How we collect your personal information

•   Bellarine Active Ageing OT collects personal information from you in a variety of ways, including when you interact with us electronically via email or in person, when you access our website and when we provide our services to you

•   We may receive personal information from third parties, such as referrals from case managers and support coordinators. In these instances, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy

 

Use of your personal information

•   Bellarine Active Ageing OT may use personal information collected from you to provide you with information and our services

•   Bellarine Active Ageing OT will not send you advertising material based on services, updates or irrelevant information to your care

•   Bellarine Active Ageing OT may contact you by information that has been provided to us; be that by telephone, email and/or SMS

•   Bellarine Active Ageing OT will keep your personal information as long as we are legally obliged to keep it, or until the need for the personal information has passed. At that point it will be destroyed, deleted or de-identified

How we disclose your personal information

•   We may disclose your personal information to our insurers and/or professional advisers, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy

•   Personal information is only supplied to a third party when it is required for the delivery of our services (i.e requesting quotes for equipment/home modifications, referral to other allied health professionals, requesting joint builder visits, contact with treating GP when indicated or mandatory reporting etc.) or in other rare instances such as the need to employ a debt collection service

•   Bellarine Active Ageing OT will include necessary personal information on formal documents such as reports, and share this with the intended audience (I.e. HCP providers, NDIS, funding organisations)

•   We may from time to time need to disclose personal information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request

•   If there is a change of control in our business or a sale or transfer of business assets, we reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law our user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases. This information may be disclosed to a potential purchaser under an agreement to maintain confidentiality. We would seek to only disclose information in good faith and where required by any of the above circumstances

•   By providing us with personal information, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the types of disclosure covered by this Policy. Where we disclose your personal information to third parties, we will request that the third party follow this Policy regarding handling your personal information

•   We do not and will not sell or deal in Personal Data or any customer information

•   Bellarine Active Ageing OT does not engage with any overseas entities, with which personal or health information would be transferred, appointed or disclosed

The security of your personal information

•   Bellarine Active Ageing OT is committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us is secure

•   Your information is stored on secure servers (electronic records), in order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure; we have put in place suitable physical and electronic procedures to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure

•   The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. We cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us, we send to third parties or any information you receive from us. Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personal information that we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy

How to access your personal information

•   You may request details of personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)

•   If you would like a copy of the information which we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email jen@baaot.com.au

•   An electronic copy of the requested records will be provided, no hard copy will be provided, even when requested. Bellarine Active Ageing OT aims to be a 100% paperless service

•   We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act.

Changes to privacy policy

•   We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy without notice.

•   As we plan to ensure our privacy policy remains current, this policy is subject to change. We may modify this policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on this website. Please return periodically to review our privacy policy.

Website

•   The website may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website

•   Our website may from time to time use cookies to analyses website traffic and help us provide a better website visitor experience

Complaints about privacy

•   If you have a problem, query or complaint about our privacy practices, please feel free to send details of your issue to jen@baaot.com.au. We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving notice of your complaint

•   If you are unsatisfied with our response, you may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.oaic.gov.au