Gardener - Noosaville

Competitive payrates with added benefit of salary sacrificing options
- Become part time of a team making a real difference
- Join an organisation that cares about its staff

**Southern Cross Care QLD is currently looking for a full time Gardener/ Maintenance Officer to support our Noosa Waters Retirement Village in Noosaville.**

**What We Can Offer You**:

- **Competitive pay rates depending on qualifications and experience**:

- **Benefit of Not for Profit tax-free salary packaging options up to $15,900, plus an optional Meals and Entertainment card up to $2,650.**:

- **Regular weekday working hours**:

- **Become part of a great small team working together to make a real difference to people's lives**:

- **Opportunity to join a growing supportive organisation that not only cares about its residents and customers but also wants its staff to feel Known and Loved through provision of various support programs including individualised training programs**:

- **Wagestream
- access up to 50% of your earned wages early**:

- **Employee Assistance Program for employees and their families**:

- **Employee Value Program**

To be a Maintenance officer with Southern Cross Care QLD, you will need to be someone who enjoys the outdoors and performing hands on maintenance work to ensure our site is safe and enjoyable for all. You will have a green thumb to ensure that our gardens/lawns are well maintained and kept tidy throughout the seasons. All the work you do will need to be done in accordance with Health and Safety requirements which we can assist you to better understand if needed. You will need to be personable as you will be interacting with our residents throughout your day, you will need to enjoy working within a team but also be able to work autonomously.

We are looking for you if you are someone who is efficient, approachable, reliable and brings enthusiasm and a can do attitude to your work
**. **As an employee of Southern Cross Care QLD, we want someone who will contribute to our Known and Loved culture and can work as team to provide the best possible environment for the people we serve as well as each other.

**About You**:

- Ideally you will hold a Certificate III in Horticulture, Parks and Gardens or related field
- Previous experience and knowledge in general and commercial maintenance and gardening
- Posses knowledge of trade resources and suppliers of materials
- Current manual drivers licence
- First Aid Certificate (highly desirable)
- Excellent people and interpersonal skills
- You will need to have a current Approved Criminal History Check prior to starting
- Maintain an up to date influenza and COVID 19 vaccinations (or other such required vaccinations) in accordance with the requirements of Government Health Directives and Southern Cross Care Queensland Policy
- You will posses the right to work in Australia

**Who We Are and Our Known & Loved Culture**:
At Southern Cross Care Queensland every person matters, we respect the lives and the honour of the unique stories of every resident, which guides everything we do. Our Vision is to grow communities where best lives are lived. Our mission is inspired by Catholic moral and social teachings which value and respect human life and the dignity of the individual, we will provide a quality of care and accommodation to meet the needs of all who place their trust in us and to work every day reflecting our values of Service, Courage and Compassion. Southern Cross Care QLD is a not-for-profit provider of quality aged care, disability care and independent living in South East Queensland. With over 1,000 employees, we provide care and services to thousands of people within their own homes or at one of our 13 Residential Care Facilities and 5 Retirement Villages

An exclusive Known & Loved support program has been developed at SCCQ, to provide all our staff with the inspiration, knowledge and practical tools needed to build better and stronger connections with those we work with as well as those we serve.
- We are an EEO employer. Please note that all employment offers will be conditional upon a satisfactory NDIS workers check, right to work in Australia and current flu and COVID 19 Vaccinations._

**Southern Cross Care Queensland is a proud EEO Employer and we celebrate our workforce’s diversity and welcome people from all walks of life to join our Known and Loved Culture.