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Rows of orange trees in an established grove under morning light About Grove

No one grows alone.

Grove is the support work arm of Frey Health Group. We do the everyday, practical, human part of care: the hours in someone's kitchen, the lift to an appointment, the lawn that has got away from them, the person who turns up on a Tuesday and knows how you like your tea.

Part of
Frey Health Group
Funding
NDIS and Support at Home
Across
Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne
Lifespan
Paediatrics to aged care

Where the name comes from

01 The tree

An orange tree grown on its own has a hard life. It takes the full weight of the wind, it loses moisture from every side, and its fruit ripens unevenly because nothing around it holds the conditions steady. It survives, usually. It rarely thrives.

Growers have known this for a long time, which is why nobody plants one tree. They plant a grove.

02 The grove

In a grove, the trees on the outside take the wind so the ones inside do not have to. Roots hold the soil together. The canopy keeps the ground cool and the moisture in. Fruit ripens in its own time, tree by tree, because the conditions are steady enough to allow it.

None of it is dramatic. It is a set of small, unglamorous, repeated conditions that add up to a place where growth is possible.

Ripe oranges on the branch, lit from behind

03 The point

Support works the same way. Independence is not something a person manufactures alone through effort. It comes from having enough of the right things steady around you: the same faces, a routine that holds, a house that works, someone who notices when something is off.

That is the whole idea behind Grove, and it is why we are far more interested in who turns up and whether they keep turning up than in the language of service delivery. No one grows alone. Not trees, and not people.

What we actually do about it

Values are cheap to write and easy to test. These are the four we are prepared to be measured on, written as behaviour rather than adjectives.

  1. We roster for the same faces

    Continuity is the whole product. We build small teams around a household instead of filling shifts from a pool, because support only works once someone knows your routine without being told it again.

  2. We change a match without an argument

    If the person we send is not right, you say so and we change it. You do not need a reason you can defend. Nobody has to have done anything wrong to be the wrong fit for your home.

  3. We say no when the answer is no

    If you need a nurse, a therapist or a trade, we tell you that instead of stretching to cover it badly. A provider who says yes to everything is telling you something about how carefully they say yes.

  4. We put it in plain words

    Plans, invoices, rosters and what we can and cannot do, all explained in language a person can act on. If you needed a support coordinator to understand our email, we wrote a bad email.

Support across a whole life

Most providers pick an end of the age range and stay there. Grove works across the lifespan, which matters because families are rarely dealing with one person's needs at a time.

Two children playing together outdoors

Children and teenagers

Support around school, holidays, therapy appointments and the routines either side of the day. Worker consistency matters more here than anywhere, and it is the thing parents tell us they have most often lost.

A young adult smiling in a sunlit doorway

Working age adults

Hours spent on your goals rather than someone else's schedule: work, study, a household you run, a social life that exists. Including supported independent living where the plan funds it.

An older couple walking together along a coastal boardwalk

Older Australians

Staying in your own house, on your own terms, with help that arrives before a crisis rather than after one. Personal care, the housework, the garden, and getting out while getting out is still easy.

What Grove is, and what it is not

This is the most useful paragraph on the page, so we have made it the plainest. Grove is support work. It is not a clinical service, and it never pretends to be one.

Grove does

  • Personal care, daily routines and help around the house
  • Community access, transport and getting out
  • Supported independent living and support coordination
  • Gardening, home help, cleaning and domestic assistance
  • Matching, screening and rostering the person who turns up

Grove does not

  • Nursing, wound care or clinical procedures
  • Occupational therapy, physiotherapy or speech pathology
  • Psychology, behaviour support plans or dietetics
  • Medical care, diagnosis or prescribing
  • Anything that needs a registration we do not hold

Where the clinical work goes

Constellation Therapies is the allied health and clinical arm of the same group. If what you need is therapy or clinical care, we introduce you there rather than referring you into the unknown, and you are not starting your story over with a stranger.

Constellation Therapies
An older person's hands held gently by a support worker

How we choose the people who turn up

Everything above depends on one decision made well, repeatedly: who we send into your home. So that is where we are fussiest.

  1. 01 Screened and background checked appropriate to the work they do, before a first shift rather than after it.
  2. 02 Interviewed for judgement, not just availability. The question we care about is what they did the last time something went wrong.
  3. 03 Inducted into the household, not just the job. Your routine, your preferences, and the things that are not up for negotiation.
  4. 04 Backed by a coordinator they can call, so a worker is never quietly deciding something serious on their own.
  5. 05 Rostered honestly. We would rather tell you we cannot fill a shift than send someone who should not be in it.
  6. 06 Checked in on after the first few shifts and again once the routine settles, because week three is when the truth arrives.

One family. Every kind of care.

Grove is one arm of Frey Health Group. The others cover the clinical and medical work Grove deliberately leaves alone, which means a hand-off inside the family rather than a referral into a queue.

Come and ask us the hard questions

Whether we are the right provider is a fair thing to interrogate. Call and put it to us, and we will tell you honestly if the answer is someone else.