Bayside OT

27/10/2025

Started OT Week celebrations with a long overdue catch up with Jenny Gribbin of Driving Well Occupational Therapy. 🥳💕🤩

26/10/2025

10/10/2025

World Mental Health Day takes place every year on 10th October. This year the focus is community and the benefits of being connected with your community on mental health and well-being

06/10/2025

As DVA providers we can help our clients to access some of the supports and services shown in this poster.

If you would like to know more about how Occupational Therapy helps to support veterans and war widows to remain safe and independent in their own homes or residential aged care please contact us anytime or browse our website https://www.baysideot.com.au/about

04/10/2025

This week, Natalie Munro, Occupational Therapist at Bayside OT, visited Canberra. 'A moving experience at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra with my daughter Katie. Paying tribute to the memory and lives of all those who served our country. Thank you. ♥️’

At Bayside OT we have a team of experienced DVA registered Occupational Therapists, with a long history of helping veterans and war widows here in the Redlands and south east Brisbane suburbs.

For more information about our services please visit our website https://www.baysideot.com.au or call us on 0488 313 430

17/09/2025

Our September team meeting at the Myhorizon centre kicked off with a special visit from the newest (and cutest) addition to the Bayside OT family and a celebration of OT Kim's birthday!!

We had a busy morning.. huge thanks to Brian from Paragon Physio and Performance for sharing valuable insights on breath work and empowering us with new techniques. https://www.paragonphysioandperformance.com/
👏🙏👏

16/09/2025

13/09/2025

Natalie Munro, senior Occupational Therapist at Bayside OT, spent an amazing 3 days at the Oceanic Palliative Care Conference in Brisbane Convention Centre this week.
It was Inspiring, informative and engaging content and there were great opportunities for connecting. There is some truly amazing work being done in this clinical space…

21/08/2025

Hey, its Virginia here

I wanted to take a moment to remind you of what we do at Bayside OT.
At our core, we are here to help you overcome difficulties with everyday activities. For a lot of our clients this means helping by advising you on a piece of equipment, designing a grab rail or ramp in your home or giving you advice about how to change the way you do an activity.
Although having an Occupational Therapy assessment will look a bit different for each of us, at the end of the day we want to enable you to:
Stay living in your own home for longer
Be able to do more of what you enjoy each day
Reduce your risk of having a fall or accident in your home or the community
We know that living with disability and coping at home as we get older is challenging but we are here to help you.
Thank you for allowing us to do this important work and for saying yes to letting us walk this path with you.
Be sure to reach out on 0488 313 430, so we can answer any questions you might have around taking that first step towards overcoming difficulties with everyday activities.
Warm regards,
Virginia Rendle
Principal Occupational Therapist

05/07/2025

Massive Congratulations to our client Tony Sandoz, who took the gold medal in his first ever wheelchair 5K race! All your hard work has paid off 🙌🙌🙌

Brisbane’s Antoine Sandoz powered to victory in today’s Wheelchair 5km, crossing in 19:41! 🏁
He was followed by Pete Rudland (20:21) and Grant Cunningham (20:34) in a strong showing.
Well raced, legends! 💪

02/07/2025

Thank you Henry Pike MP your support is greatly appreciated

Over the past few days, I’ve been meeting with local physios, OTs and NDIS service providers across the Redlands—and the message is clear: they’re at breaking point.
Labor’s changes to NDIS pricing came in this week, and they’re already having a massive impact. Travel funding has been slashed overnight, therapy rates have been cut or frozen, and the whole mess has been dumped on providers with barely any notice.

It’s making it near impossible for allied health professionals to continue supporting families—especially on our bay islands, where in-person care isn’t a luxury, it’s a lifeline.

One OT told me she simply can’t afford to service the islands anymore. She hasn’t had a rate increase in years, and now her costs are going up while her income is going backwards. Another physio showed me how his hourly rate has just been cut by over $10—while he’s expected to pay his staff more under Fair Work rulings, cover fuel and insurance, and deal with mountains of red tape from the NDIA.

The reality is that highly skilled professionals are walking away from the sector altogether. Some are earning more as support workers. That’s how broken it’s become.

This is what happens when a government targets the wrong end of the system. There’s no shortage of waste in the NDIS—but cutting essential care while the bureaucracy keeps expanding is not the answer.

The NDIS was meant to be about dignity and choice. Instead, lazy cost-cutting is punishing the people doing the work and the families who rely on them.
I’ll keep fighting for a smarter, fairer fix—for the professionals delivering care, and for the Redlands families who deserve better.

23/06/2025

Last week we said farewell to one of our team.
Occupational Therapist Aisling Birmingham is off on her travels!
Thank you Ash for your care and dedication to your clients and team, you will be greatly missed!