Leisure and Lifestyle Team Member

Kalyra has been supporting South Australians for 130 years! We take pride in delivering outstanding service and care through Residential Aged Care, In-Home Support, Retirement Living and Affordable Housing. When you join Kalyra, you join a team that makes having a career in Aged Care fun, inspiring and rewarding – it’s different here!

As a Leisure and Lifestyle team member specialising in dementia care (Memory Support Unit), you'll collaborate to implement programs, ensuring residents achieve their goals and preferences, while also fostering a choice-oriented environment with the clinical team to maximize their quality of life.

• Deliver choice-oriented activities
• Support resident-led leisure and lifestyle activities
• Facilitate resident-initiated lifestyle events and provide community event information
• Assist residents to and from group activities
• Provide one-on-one emotional support
• Foster a culture of choice and goal achievement among residents
• Assist in resident assessments and care plan reviews
• Document activity attendance in clinical records
• Participate in audits and quality improvement activities

Please note that this is a part-time role with 22 hours per fortnight available. Ideally, you will need to be available Monday, Tuesday and Thursday in Week 1 and Friday in Week 2.

• Relevant tertiary qualification (health, community services, aged care, wellbeing) 
• Recognised training in Dementia and behaviour management 
• Sound understanding of dementia 
• You'll need a creative mindset to implement engaging activities tailored for residents with dementia
• Demonstrated ability to work with limited supervision, exercise initiative and problem-solving skills 
• Demonstrated experience in identifying activities that reflect residents’ personal interests 
• Sound understanding of person-centred care 
• Sound verbal and written communication skills and ability to prioritise and organise workloads. 

Apart from this we ask that you have the following: 

• National Police Check or willingness to obtain one
• NDIS Worker Check or willing to obtain 
• 3 x COVID vaccinations 
• Influenza 2024 vaccination

Joining the Kalyra team is not only fun and rewarding, it's also a career and we can offer you: 
•    Access to salary packaging options to increase your take home pay
•    Hands on orientation program with ongoing training and support
•    A values-based organisation with a welcoming and supportive culture
•    Opportunities to grow in your role and have the career you want to have!

If you have a genuine passion for working for a community and ensuring their well-being and daily lifestyle requirements are fulfilled, we welcome your interest and encourage you to get in touch with us.

For more information, please get in touch with Reena Parmar, Recruitment Partner at Harrison McMillan on 08 7140 1917 or  recruitment@hmrpo.com.au