Lifestyle Officer

_**Are you a passionate leader?**_
- **Relationship and family focused?**_
- **A fun and dynamic team player?**_
- **Fuelled by change, innovation and partnerships?**_
- **Love to coach, inspire and empower?**_
- **This role may well be what you’ve been looking for**_

**About us**:
We are a family-owned business and we really value committed, flexible staff with a positive “can do” attitude. We take pride in providing superior customer service and have a diverse workforce with varied roles and hours.

Vacenti is a forward-thinking company and wants to help every staff member further their career. That is why we encourage and facilitate the growth of our staff by providing skills development and internal promotional opportunities. There are also opportunities to transfer between homes and to be mentored by more experienced staff.

Our locations in Brisbane include Birkdale, Victoria Point, Mount Gravatt East, Carindale, Coorparoo and Hamilton.

**About your** **role**:

- Do you like making people smile?
- Do you have creativity and flair?
- Are you passionate about helping elderly people to support their wellbeing?

Our Lifestyle Team is responsible for delivering engaging lifestyle programs to support the social and physical well-being of our residents. You will be working at Sylvan Woods in Birkdale QLD.

This opportunity is perfect for an enthusiastic, hardworking individual who will assist with the day to day lifestyle activities for our aged care facility. The **Lifestyle Officer** will be a proactive, hands-on and self-driven person with a passion for working with the elderly. You will work in an environment where you can help improve the lives of the elderly by developing and implementing lifestyle activities that are creative, entertaining and designed to improve the mental and physical well-being of our residents. This is a role where you can make a difference.

The Lifestyle Officer is responsible for assisting in the development and provision of culturally appropriate recreational, leisure and spiritual activities. These activities facilitate and encourage lifestyle choices for residents, in an order that their quality of life may be enhanced.

We are looking for innovative and creative ideas to help change the way that our residents interact and live their lives.

**About you**:

- Be proactive and passionate about achieving successful outcomes and making a difference to the lives of our residents
- Work effectively as an individual and within a team
- Have effective written and verbal communication skills
- Have a great sense of humour
- Like to have fun
- Certificate IV qualification is desirable
- Covid 19 vaccinated with booster

**What we can offer you**:

- Flexible working hours and shift options.
- Access to career progression and professional development through our internal programs and external strategic alliances.
- Viva - our recognition and reward Program / Employee Referral Program - earn money when you refer friends to work with us / Employee Assistance Program.
- A friendly, community-like culture of working for a family owned and operated business.

To be considered for this opportunity you must have the **right to live and work in Australia** and **provide evidence of your Covid vaccination status.** If you are successful, you will be required to obtain a **national police clearance** prior to commencement.

Our Mission is valuing life and wellbeing through our values**:

- P**ersonalise **E*mpathise **R**espond **S**trive **O**wn it and **N*ever stop

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: $22.67 - $24.76 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount
- Employee mentoring program
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Shift work

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Victoria Point, QLD 4165: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Lifestyle role: 1 year (preferred)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (preferred)

Shift availability:

- Day Shift (preferred)