Wellness & Engagement Lead: Inspire Resident Wellbeing in Brisbane

Remuneration: $40.39 p/hr + Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + Penalties & Allowances

PLEASE NOTE: While you'll primarily be based at the site closest to you, this dynamic role offers the opportunity to support multiple locations as business needs evolve. Flexibility and a willingness to travel are essential to succeed in this position.

Make a meaningful difference with BlueCare. We're looking for an experienced and passionate leader who can create meaningful opportunities for residents to stay connected, engaged and living well. Through leading wellness programs and supporting a team of Wellness Partners, you'll help enhance quality of life and resident wellbeing every day.

About the role: As a Wellness Lead, you'll provide leadership and oversight of the home's Wellness & Engagement Program, ensuring activities are person-centred, inclusive and aligned with residents' goals, interests and abilities. Working closely with residents, families and multidisciplinary teams, you'll support meaningful engagement that promotes independence, dignity and wellbeing.

You will:

• Lead the planning, delivery and evaluation of wellness and engagement programs
• Coach and support Wellness Partners and volunteers to deliver positive resident experiences
• Develop meaningful activities that support physical, emotional, social and cognitive wellbeing
• Collaborate with residents, families and care teams to ensure programs meet individual needs
• Monitor resident engagement, wellbeing outcomes and program participation
• Maintain accurate documentation and support continuous quality improvement
• Build community connections and support events and special celebrations
• Ensure activities and environments are safe and align with quality and compliance requirements

Role requirements:

• Diploma in Leisure and Health with extensive relevant experience
• Current Queensland Driver Licence
• Experience designing and delivering wellness, lifestyle or engagement programs in aged care, disability or community settings
• Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring or leading staff and/or volunteers
• Strong understanding of person-centered practice, dementia care and cultural safety
• Experience working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams
• Knowledge of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, WHS and risk management principles
• Confidence to satisfy the relevant probity checks required by legislation or organisational policies

How to apply: Click APPLY to submit your application, you'll be redirected to our website to create a candidate profile, upload your resume and complete a questionnaire.

We warmly encourage applications from First Nations peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people living with disability, and people of all genders and identities.

Employee Benefits:

• Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum
• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme
• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
• Career development opportunities with one of the most trusted community and residential care providers in Australia to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference

BlueCare is proudly part of the UnitingCare Family, we’d love you to be too. Joining the state’s largest network of aged care workers with its over 8,000 strong, bright team in blue, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. With more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, you are part of something bigger. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.

Child safe, Child friendly: UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

• Provide welcoming, safe & nurturing services for children
• Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
• Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur
• Abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme

Diversity & Inclusion: Our approach is simple– everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.

Commitment to Safeguarding: We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.