Celebrating Aged Care Employee Day for a whole week
A Woy Woy aged care home is celebrating Aged Care Employee Day for the whole week.
Today, Monday, August 7, is the day the industry specifically recognises the invaluable work all our aged care staff undertake in residential aged care.
"BlueWave Living will be undertaking activities through the full week from Monday to thank and recognise our wonderful staff," said chief executive Mr Matt Downie.
Next Monday will see new overseas staff officially commence.
"They will add much-needed additional support to our team of dedicated staff and allow us to continue to grow and expand as we bring additional beds on-line.
"While we continue to recruit at a local level, and this will be on-going, there is a significant shortage of available staff to work in our sector, which continues to place pressure on all providers of residential aged care.
"The initiative BlueWave Living has undertaken to support the intake of some qualified overseas workforce enables us to ensure we have the resources to open up new additional rooms over the coming months and years, and to avoid decreasing capacity which is the step some other providers have had to take.
"Staffing resource challenges, coupled with finance pressures in our current high inflation environment continue to remain significant concerns for our industry as a whole," he said.
SOURCE:
Newsletter, 1 Aug 2023
Matt Downie, Blue Wave Living