Recreation Officer

What your day will look like....
Your day will be vibrant and dynamic, filled with opportunities to engage with residents through thoughtfully designed recreational activities. You'll collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team, sharing ideas and insights to create programs that resonate with individual needs and preferences. As you interact with residents, you'll conduct lifestyle assessments and maintain supportive communication, ensuring everyone feels valued and included. You'll also mentor enthusiastic volunteers, fostering their passion for community involvement, while organising events that connect our residents to local groups. Every moment will be dedicated to enriching lives, promoting well-being, and creating lasting memories in a warm, respectful environment.
Let's talk about you
- Compassion - you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
- Integrity - you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
- Dignity - you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
- Innovation - you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
- Courage - you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.

Why Us?
Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits
- Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
- A diverse work culture
- Career development
- Professional development opportunities
- Education opportunities, Study and Research
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounted Private Health Insurance
- Fitness Passport
- Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
- Generous Salary Sacrificing

Next step....
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