Wellness and Lifestyle Officer

“Come and spend time with our residents in designing and facilitating amazing and creative life experiences!"

Yaandina Community Services is the largest local provider of community services in the Pilbara. Through integrity, respect, team work, continuous improvement and innovation the dedicated staff at Yaandina focus on the needs of each of our clients to deliver the best possible service and care.

The Role

The Wellness and Lifestyle Officer is responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of leisure and social opportunities in conjunction with residents, families and other members of the healthcare team. This includes program plan development, and input into lifestyle expenditure. The role includes working collaboratively with the aged care team to ensure our residents are encouraged to actively participate in wellbeing and leisure activities of interest to them, ensuring their emotional, social, cultural and spiritual needs are supported.

About You

If you enjoy diversity and are in step with Yaandina’s values of Integrity, Respect, Team-work and Care then this may be the role for you. Your experience working with clients of diverse, multi-cultural backgrounds and clients with complex needs will contribute to your success in the role. You have the ability to empower our residents to enjoy independence and pursue the lifestyle of their choice while maintaining dignity and privacy.

As someone who is highly organised and a self-motivated, you will be required to plan, develop, and deliver innovative activities programs for our residents. You can build and maintain relationships, and possess a positive demeanor and warm smile to brighten the day of our residents. You must be able to relate and communicate well to older people particularly those living with dementia or a disability.

To be successful in this role your previous experience in a similar role in residential aged care or community setting will be advantageous. It would be beneficial if you have a qualification relevant to Community Services (Leisure and Health) or equivalent, although this is not essential.

Required:

· Current WA Driver’s License

· National Police Clearance

· Working with Children’s Check

· NDIS Clearance

If this position appeals to you, please submit your resume along with a cover letter that outlines what strengths you will bring to this role. If you would like more information, a confidential discussion or to simply ask a question about this role, please email your enquiry to [email protected] or call 9182 1172 (option 1)

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and are committed to building a workplace culture that values diversity and inclusion. We welcome, actively support and promote the employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disabilities, LGBTI, culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds and other diversity group.