Gemma Lovitt

Meet Ellen Phillips, one of our experienced Physiotherapists at Rocky Bay!  Ellen joined Rocky Bay three years ago, and made the switch from private practice to the disability sector after supporting customers living with disability, realising this is what she wanted to do full time.  Rocky Bay is trialling a pilot of hippotherapy (horse riding … Read more

We are so excited to share with you Rocky Bay’s very first television advertisement for recruitment, appearing on the 9Now digital platform this month!  The ‘Find Your Place’ campaign was created to inspire allied health professionals – who share our passion to enhance abilities and enrich lives – to uncover their potential at Rocky Bay.  … Read more

We have an amazing clinical team based at our Rockingham hub who support our customers to achieve their goals everyday. Meet one of our passionate Speech Pathologists – Ramishka! Ramishka Thilakaratne has been part of the Rocky Bay team since 2020. She has worked in hospital settings and in the disability sector overseas before moving … Read more

We are very excited to be working in partnership on a community inclusion project with the Presbyterian Ladies College, and twelve of their Year 9 students. The purpose of the project is for the students to: Develop a holiday program for Rocky Bay customers aged 13-16 years old Investigate the opportunity of establishing a Rocky Bay … Read more

Rocky Bay is delighted to announce a new partnership with Glide Products, with Rocky Bay Equipment to supply the locally built, high-quality wheelchairs made to suit the individual needs of customers. Rocky Bay CEO, Michael Tait, along with the Directors of Glide Products, Peter Green CSC and Steven Walsh, signed an agreement on 7 July. … Read more

The sun came out on a winter’s day for our NAIDOC celebration, which took place in the beautiful gardens of our Mosman Park hub on Thursday 7 July. This event saw our guests participate in many fun and educational activities for NAIDOC week celebrations. Noongar Elder, Ms. Robyn Collard, opened with a smoking ceremony and … Read more

Meet Craig, a Lead Support Worker based in our Community division who has dedicated a very impressive 20 years of service to Rocky Bay and supporting our customers! Craig began his journey with Rocky Bay in 2002 and ever since has gone above and beyond to support customers to achieve their goals – whether that’s … Read more

Rocky Bay is delighted to be a recipient of funding from Telethon to once again provide AusSwim for children living with autism. April is Autism Awareness Month, so let’s take a look at some of the other services available for people living with autism. Here at Rocky Bay, autism is the most common diagnosis among … Read more

Meet Erin, our Allied Health Team Lead based at our Mandurah hub. Erin is a physiotherapist and partners with our customers to support them to achieve their goals. She has an extensive background in paediatric physiotherapy, working a large portion of her career with the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom, as well … Read more

We are thrilled, for the second year running, to be one of 97 beneficiary organisations sharing in a $62 million grant from the Channel 7 Telethon Trust! Rocky Bay’s share of the grant will see the launch of a new program to support children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to develop water safety awareness and … Read more