Erika Farrugia
Support Worker
Experienced Support Worker
Erika is a compassionate, trustworthy, and reliable support worker with seven years’ experience across aged care, disability support, and community access. With a Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) and extensive hands-on practice in personal care, mental health, and working with children with disabilities, Erika brings a calm, kind, and person-centred approach to every shift. She loves helping people feel safe, respected, and engaged, whether that’s at home, out in the community, or during appointments.
Key Qualifications
Education
Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing); First Aid & CPR; Dementia Care; Medication competency; Hand Hygiene; Thickened fluids training.
NDIS Compliance
Holds all necessary NDIS checks and clearances (Blue Card, Yellow Card, Police Check) and has completed the NDIS Worker Orientation Module.
Transport
Holds a QLD open driver’s license and has a reliable car with comprehensive insurance.
Skills & Expertise
Personal care & daily living
- Skilled with showering, dressing, grooming (nail, hair, and skin care), toileting, bed bathing, hoisting/manual handling, dysphagia care, and safe mealtime support.
Disability & mental health support
- Experienced with physical disability, intellectual disability, and psychosocial support needs; confident using wheelchairs and communication devices; patient, structured, and adaptable with children and adults.
Medication & routines
- Medication assist/prompting, establishing predictable routines, and documenting changes in presentation.
Domestic assistance & meal support
- Meal preparation and cooking, laundry, tidying/organising, household clean-ups, and light gardening.
Community access & transport support
- Shopping trips, medical and therapy appointments, day outings, and confidence-building activities in the community.
Tech & everyday admin
- Happy helping with iPhones, basic online tasks, and simple computer use to increase independence.
Pet care & engagement
- Comfortable feeding/walking pets; enjoys incorporating animals, arts & crafts, board games, and beach/bush walks into meaningful support.
Professional Experience
Support Worker
- Disability support, domestic assistance, mental health support, personal care, medication assist, manual handling, arts/crafts and lifestyle activities, day trips/appointments, palliative care, and dysphagia care.
- Personal care, disability and mental health support, domestic assistance, medication assist, manual handling, lifestyle activities, and appointments.
- Showering and hygiene support, meal preparation/cooking, shopping, appointments, outings, medication assist, and grooming care.
Personal Care
- Community access (shopping/appointments), meal prep and cooking, medication prompting, disability support, grooming and personal care, walks and day trips, manual handling, and household assistance.
Aged Care Placement – Seasons Caloundra
- Community access, home cleaning, personal care (nail, hair, showering, skin care, toileting, dressing), mealtime support, pet walks, and social engagement activities.
Personal Attributes
Erika is warm, loyal, and attentive, with a gentle manner that helps people feel comfortable and in control. She enjoys cooking, arts and crafts, the beach, bush walking, gardening, board games, and movies — interests she uses to build rapport and make supports enjoyable and meaningful. As a pet lover (two Airedale Terriers and birds), she’s more than happy to include pet care in her shifts when helpful.