Aged Care Employee Day 2024
Your care is the recipe for living and ageing well
Aged Care Employee Day is an opportunity for us to celebrate the work you do each and every day to deliver outstanding care and services to our customers across Victoria and Tasmania.
Each of our 4,300+ team members are one of the special ingredients that come together to make an important difference in the lives of older people.
On Aged Care Employee Day, you will receive a special gift to reflect our thanks for the work you do and the contribution you make. While we hope it will bring a smile and a sense of fun to your day, we also hope the gift reminds you of the values we share and how we work alongside each other every day to support people to live and age well.
Whether you’re on the frontline of delivering care; or in the vital engine rooms of hotel services and maintenance, or working in the background in corporate services and management – you make it all happen.
It takes everyone, working together as a team, to deliver excellence every day. Each person brings their individual ingredient into the mix. We are proud of our staff and are grateful you have chosen a career with heart at Uniting AgeWell.
On Aged Care Employee Day we share staff stories from across the organisation to showcase the diversity of people’s pathways into aged care and as an insight into our collective impact. Click through to read their stories featured on the website:
Sometimes, when Troy Rouse writes “gone fishing” in his dairy, he’s actually working! A Home Care Worker from the bustling team in Northern Tasmania, Troy takes a client fishing for three hours every fortnight, providing valuable respite for the man’s wife who is his primary carer.
Katina (Tina) Manousaki represents the team in Hume and totally gets how many farmers dig in their heels and do everything possible to continue living on the land as they grow older. It’s what she wants too; to live on her property with her partner and her beloved Arabian horses forever.
Cassandra Lester finds working in Aged Care even more rewarding than working with elite athletes. It’s the little things that mean a lot. Like seeing a client able to step off the curb with confidence, rise easily from a low couch or go for longer walks. It’s life-altering.
Sohail (Sam) Akhter is one of our talented team of Chefs and works at Strathdon Community. He says working in restaurants and hotels can take a brutal toll on family life. Now he’s loving doing “dad-things” with his children over the weekend and at night, and is excited to be exploring new ways of cooking too through the Maggie Beer Trainer Mentor Program.
Team care in action at Hawthorn Community delivers the best holistic care to residents – just ask Personal Care Workers Surpreet Kaur and Navpreet Kaur, and Enrolled Nurse Novie Taguicana. Their inspirational stories highlight how we encourage employees to be the best version of themselves, including studying to advance their careers.
Liz Redpath’s perfect world is one where no older person is ever lonely or worries about accessing transport to go to appointments or to the shops. Every day the happiness super-spreader, aka the Team Leader of the Grampians Social Connections Program, does her best to make this happen.
Lara Mackie is a Recruitment Advisor with the People and Culture team and knows that the pathway into aged care is often maze-like rather than linear – after all she used to work as a chiropractor and in a bank! She was drawn to the organisation after seeing the kindness and respect that staff at Strathdon Community showed her late grandmother.
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