The worker, who is accused of assaulting a resident in 2015, must now be chaperoned at all times by another care assistant or nurse at his new employer, aged care provider Helping Hand.

Prosecutors had asked for him to have a bail condition banning him from his workplace, but this was denied.

The magistrate said she was skeptical about whether an aged care facility could provide that level of supervision however “given we hear they’re so short-staffed.”