Diversional Therapy

**Diversional Therapy / Lifestyle Assistant**

**A bit about our exciting opportunity at NoosaCare**:
NoosaCare is seeking an enthusiastic Lifestyle Assistant or Diversional Therapist on a full/part-time or casual basis. You will be working in the beautiful Sunshine Coast and can achieve an amazing work life balance that will ensure you get to experience all the Sunshine Coast has to offer

NoosaCare provides the highest quality care and support to our residents in a family like community setting. As a boutique, not for profit aged care facility, you will experience a true sense of purpose when working with us. The tranquil surrounds and magnificent gardens will have you feeling as though you are working at a tropical resort, while knowing you are marking a real difference to the lives of our residents and their families.

**Working at NoosaCare has plenty of other benefits too, some of what we can provide includes**:

- We can offer discounted, shared, short term accommodations options. We have properties located a short walking distance to our Carramar site and a short drive to our Kabara site, solely for the use of our staff. These properties are fully furnished, you will have lockable access to your room and most of the properties have swimming pools as well
- Generous salary packaging and not-for-profit tax benefits - claim up to $15,900 per year (equal to $611.54 per fortnight). Pay less tax and increase your take home pay.
- Paid parental leave.
- Well laid out, purpose-built facility with modern equipment and technology, including dedicated training spaces.
- Ongoing training and professional development opportunities.
- Full orientation and induction processes.

**Our Community**:

- "Our Mission, Vision and Principles create the platform upon which our organisational attitudes, behaviours and work practices will be strengthened, enacted, and monitored.
- Aged care is so important to us and our community that we strive to be the best Aged Care facility on the Sunshine Coast. We aspire to be a community where residents can live with dignity, respect and choice.
- NoosaCare is located across two incredible facilities - Carramar in Tewantin and Kabara in Cooroy. As a community-based, not-for-profit organisation who put our residents and their families at the forefront of all we do. Our state-of-the-art facility art located in stunning natural surroundings and landscaped gardens, where residents experience the highest level of care lifestyle choices they deserve.

**NoosaCare Principles**:

- Residents, their partners and families are our primary focus.
- Our staff are our most valuable asset.
- We strive to be the best at all that we do.
- We work with compassion, care and open minds.
- We remember our origins and our part in our community.

**As diversional therapy team member at NoosaCare you will**:
The role of the diversional therapy team at NoosaCare is a highly important as it is the first point of contact for people as they arrive. This is an agile role that requires a diverse range of skills and abilities including:

- Develop lifestyle programs that support the needs and goals of individual residents.
- Undertake, one to one need assessment with residents and continuously revisit their assessments to ensure ongoing relevance to the residents needs and goals.
- Coordinate and guide volunteers how assist in the provision of activities.
- Work collaboratively with the Care team including Nurses and Personal Care staff.
- Undertaking planning, organising, implementing, and evaluating creative, person-centred programs to meet the holistic needs of our residents.

**Key Performance Indicators include (but are not limited to)**:

- Assess resident's social interests and capabilities and develop appropriate person-centred care plans and lifestyle programs for groups.
- Ensure that all residents can take part in programs of interest and that they can achieve their goals.
- Develop leisure and lifestyle resources that provide guidance for staff to implement suitable resident activities.
- Work collaboratively with care and clinical staff to ensure leisure and recreation is incorporated into day-to-day activities of residents.
- Review program content, sequence, and resource use to ensure activities meet resident's goals and outcomes.
- Maintain record keeping in the appropriate data base of individual and group lifestyle programs, including (but not limited to) date, times, attendance, and costs.
- Provide high quality service that supports and assists residents in achieving maximum independence.
- Maintain privacy and confidentiality to all work practices including incidental information relating to residents.
- Ability to work respectfully and collaboratively with all team members including volunteers.

**About you**:

- You will hold a minimum Cert IV in Lifestyle and Leisure or a Diploma/Degree in Diversional Therapy, or equivalent.
- Experience working within residential aged care and experien