Rob & Toni Mehigan
Managers – Wonderland Community Services and Pirates
Rob is an ex-school principal and special needs teacher. Toni is a psychologist who has specialised in special needs including autism, ADHD, ODD and trauma. Toni is also a Senior Behaviour Support Practitioner. Rob and Toni have 5 children and 4 grandchildren and are the Retreat ‘mum and dad’
Email me: theteam@piratesrest.com.au
Tia Colledge & Mike Sears
Coordinators – Pirates Rest
Mike and Tia have been coordinating Wonderland Retreat down in Tasmania for a year and they have now moved to Townsville to take up more senior positions within the company. Tia is now the Retreats Coordinator looking after all the accommodation services both here in Townsville and in Tasmania and Mike has taken over the Operations Coordination – allowing Rob and Toni to move into new areas – namely safety and professional reports.
Email me: theteam@piratesrest.com.au
Miriam Keane
Team Leader
Miriam has worked in schools as a Teacher Assistant for young people with special needs. Miriam has a strong passion to make a difference and provide quality care and support training young people so that they can make the most of their life. Miriam leads the team at Pirates Rest and Pirates Haven.
Email me: theteam@piratesrest.com.au
Ashleigh Davis
Senior Administrator
Ash provides support to the team as HR Officer and Finance Officer. Mum to two little girls – Ash does a fabulous job for us at Pirates.
Email me: theteam@piratesrest.com.au
Rhianna Meyer
Administrator
Rhianna provides support to the team and our participants, families and Coordinators of Support through service bookings, quotes and back end administration.
Email me: theteam@piratesrest.com.au
Sarah Vue
Carer
Sarah is a Nurse and is a warm and caring person who has worked for us in Administration as well as care work.
Email me: theteam@piratesrest.com.au
Maison Lukic-Bristow
Carer/ Compliance Officer/Behaviour Support & Therapy Assistant
Maison is a hard working guy, who is studying Medicine at JCU. Maison works in disability support both at Pirates Rest and another service organisation currently. Maison’s intelligent approach to care and inquiring mind means that he embraces care work with a passion to learn and support.
Email me: theteam@piratesrest.com.au
Ebony Rix
Carer/ Administration Support/Compliance Officer
Fitness, health and people is what Ebony loves . Ebony is studying Social Work at JCU currently, comes from a natural medicine background and has a passion to implement healthy eating, exercise and fun for our participants. Ebony has recently travelled to Thailand providing holiday volunteer work with young people.
Email me: mail@example.com
Geo Benny
Carer
Geo is studying nursing at JCU and is a new member to the Pirates Team. Geo is fit, helpful and ready for active adventures. Geo is a great role model – the essence of strength and gentleness and is very popular with our young people.
Email me: theteam@piratesrest.com.au
Frank Odena
Senior Carer
Frank has completed his Psychology degree and his currently studying a Masters in Education. Frank has a been working in the disabilty field for quite a while and provides a positive and encouraging influence on participants. He is a master at training young people in self care and relationship skills.
Email me: mail@example.com
Emma Corbett
Carer
Emma provides a quirky and fun presence for the Pirates Team. Emma has finished her nursing degree and is completing studies in midwifery.
Email me: theteam@piratesrest.com.au
Jonathan Mehigan
Carer/Therapy Assistant/Behaviour Support Practitioner
Jonathan provides in-home care and therapy support via Pirates Adventures. Jonathan’s love for the great outdoors and adventures introduces young people to exploration, hiking, boating, fishing and all sorts of water sports.
Email me: theteam@piratesrest.com.au
Molly Swindley
Carer
Molly is studying Midwifery after completing her nursing degree. Molly is super positive and quietly determined to make a great difference to kids lives.
Email me: theteam@piratesrest.com.au
Snowball the Cat
Therapy Assistant
Snowball provides a purry cuddle to whoever needs it. She loves a game however – and is up for a race around the house!
Email me: no internet skills but loves to jump on the computer keyboard when you are not looking!
As we work primarily with young people we have a team of ‘mentor’ carers most of whom are currently studying qualifications within the ‘helping’ professions. Pirates carers are currently studying:
- Nursing
- Medicine
- Social Work
- Physiotherapy
- Education
- Psychology
- Community Services
- Behaviour Support
We are incredibly proud of our team – they are committed, hard working, quick thinking, compassionate and keen to learn new skills and information. As they are generally free on weekends to work – we provide ‘long’ shifts which mazimises income to Uni students through penalty rates and provides continuity of care for our young people needing a familiar face over a 48 hr period.
This is win – win – happy staff and happy young participants.
All workers carry a Blue Card and Yellow Card – in other words they have been screened as suitable to work with people with disabilities and importantly – young people.
Pirates Rest provides both in-house training and provides Medication Administration training for our senior carers.
