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Meet the team – Susan, Care Team Manager at BaptistCare Niola residential aged care home.
Meet Susan, Care Team Manager at BaptistCare Niola residential aged care home in Parkes, New South Wales. With 30 years of nursing experience behind her, Susan recently decided to make...
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Meet the team – Lee, Registered Nurse at BaptistCare Mid-Richmond residential aged care home, Coraki.
Meet Lee, a Registered Nurse who works at BaptistCare’s Mid Richmond centre in Coraki on the Far North Coast of NSW. Lee made the move into aged care nursing...
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Meet the team – Rosy, Care Service Employee at BaptistCare Maranoa residential aged care home
Meet Rosy, one of the most passionate aged care workers you’ll ever meet. Rosy is originally from Indonesia, but after relocating to Australia many years ago, she decided to embark...
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Meet the team – Emma, Health and Well-Living Consultant with BaptistCare at home
Meet Emma, one of our talented Health and Well-Living Consultants based in Orange. Emma’s clinical background in physiotherapy, coupled with her gentle and dedicated approach to client care have set...
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Meet the team – Christine, Care Service Employee Support Facilitator
Meet Chris, one of the most experienced members of our BaptistCare at home team in Murrumbidgee, Wagga Wagga. For over 18 years, Chris has dedicated her career to caring for...
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Meet the team – Steph and Gareth, Care Facilitators, Orange
Meet our power couple from Orange, Steph and Gareth Danis. Having worked for decades as critical care nurses, they’ve found a beautiful new way of life in community aged...
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Meet the team – Tony Wood OAM, Care Facilitator, Canberra
Tony is certainly not someone you’ll forget in a hurry. Instantly putting you at ease with his warm, empathetic, and down-to-earth character, it quickly becomes apparent why he’s flourished in...
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Meet the team – Colleen Ross, Clinical Manager, BaptistCare Graceford, WA
Colleen Ross can still remember the first day she put on a nurse's uniform. Young, full of excitement and a passion for caring for people, she never could have imagined...
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Meet the team – Adam, Care Service Employee, Murrumbidgee
Meet Adam - a familiar face to many in New South Wales’ Murrumbidgee region. Adam is a Care Worker for BaptistCare at home and has spent over ten years...
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Meet the team – Janaya, Care Facilitator, Wagga Wagga
Meet our rising star, Janaya, who is fresh into her new role as Care Facilitator for BaptistCare at home, Murrumbidgee. Janaya is no stranger to BaptistCare, having been a Care...
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Meet the team – Jane, Care Facilitator, Wagga Wagga
Meet Jane, one of our incredible Care Facilitators for BaptistCare at home in Wagga Wagga. Jane joined the aged care sector in 2018 after working in variety of roles across...
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Meet the team – Stephen, Administration Officer, Maranoa Residential Care Home
Stephen's career to date has been nothing short of pure adventure. From an explosives expert in the Navy to producing films with Netflix, he’s embraced as many different experiences as...
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Meet the team – Ashley, Resident Activities Officer, BaptistCare Maranoa Centre Aged Care Home, NSW
A visit to see his Grandparents led Ashley Nicholls into a job he now loves - planning activities for residents at BaptistCare Maranoa Centre Aged Care Home. Right place,...
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Meet the team – Jo, Care Facilitator, BaptistCare At Home, WA
No two days are ever the same for Jo Gibson, and that’s one of the things she loves most about her job as a care facilitator with BaptistCare At Home...
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Meet the team – Darren, Chef Manager in Residential Aged Care
Meet Darren, an award-winning fine dining chef who recently decided to transition to the role of Chef Manager at BaptistCare Orana aged care home, Central Coast, NSW. A...
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Meet the team – Deborah, Quality and Education Supervisor, Maranoa Residential Care Home
Deb’s 45-year nursing career has seen her care for people across the entire lifespan, moving from paediatrics at Westmead… to aged care at BaptistCare’s Maranoa care home. She says there’s...
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Meet the team – Casey, Residential Manager at Maranoa Residential Care Home
Casey is a former Registered Nurse who made the move from hospital work to aged care just five months ago. Now working as a Care Home Residential Manager at BaptistCare’s...
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Meet the team – Natasha, Care Service, BaptistCare Niola
Working as a care worker at BaptistCare Niola Aged Care Home in Parkes NSW, Natasha Zonino embraces the challenge of no two days being the same in her job. ...
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Meet the team – Sofia, Lifestyle Coordinator, BaptistCare Griffith
Working as the Lifestyle Coordinator at BaptistCare Griffith Aged Care Home in Canberra certainly keeps Sofia Tofuaipangai on her toes and always looking for ways to make residents smile. ...
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Meet the team - Doreen, Administrative Assistant, BaptistCare at home
Working as an Administrative Assistant with BaptistCare’s at home team in WA, Doreen is originally from Dublin, where she still has a home. The luck of the Irish “We...
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Meet the team – Michelle, Training Coordinator, Residential Aged Care
Meet Michelle, a familiar face to many in the BaptistCare Orana community – our beautiful residential aged care home based on the Central Coast, NSW. Working in a hybrid role...
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Meet the team – Ros, Care Facilitator, BaptistCare at home
People are often surprised to learn that Ros, one of our talented Care Facilitators for BaptistCare at home, used to work as a Senior Constable for the Detectives in Merrylands...
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Meet the team – Makayla, Care Facilitator, BaptistCare at home
Having moved into the aged care sector only a few short years ago, Makayla is already making a profound impact on the lives of older people in the Central Tablelands...
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Meet the team – Belinda, Manager, BaptistCare HopeStreet Tuggerah
Meet Belinda, a clinically trained counsellor and Manager of our Tuggerah HopeStreet hub on the Central Coast. Belinda started her journey with BaptistCare over ten years ago when she joined...
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Meet the team – Sheryle, Training and Quality Coordinator, BaptistCare Griffith
Sheryle’s journey with BaptistCare Griffith spans more than 17 years, and during that time she’s worn many hats. After supporting our residents at BaptistCare Griffith residential aged care home...
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Meet the team – Michael, Hub Leader, Baptistcare Hopestreet
Meet Michael, our new Hub Leader for BaptistCare HopeStreet’s Warilla and Port Kembla services based on the beautiful south coast of New South Wales. Michael started with us just a few...
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Meet the team – Rachel, Community Support Worker, BaptistCare Narralling
Meet Rachel, one of our incredible community support workers based in our Narralling Social and Affordable Housing community, South West Sydney. Rachel has worked in social housing for over 20...
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Meet the team – Glenn, Maintenance Manager, Baptistcare Carey Gardens
Glenn joined us as a Maintenance Manager just over two years ago at our Carey Gardens residential aged care home in Red Hill, Canberra. Bringing a wealth of experience with...
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Meet the team – Gerald, Registered Nurse, BaptistCare Wagga Wagga
Gerald has worked as a Registered Nurse with BaptistCare for almost three years, but with over 16 years of experience, he is a wonderful asset to the team, recently moving...
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Meet the team – Anne, Chaplain, BaptistCare Red Hill
Anne, a chaplain based in Red Hill, Canberra, has a unique role that supports the spiritual wellbeing of both our residents in Carey Gardens aged care home as well as...
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Meet the team - Shristi, Registered Nurse, BaptistCare Kintyre Lodge
Having started her career three years ago, Shristi is a talented nurse and feels passionate about making a difference in the lives of her elderly residents at BaptistCare Kintyre Lodge,...
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Meet the team - Geeth, Registered Nurse, BaptistCare Warabroo
Geeth's moving story cuts straight to the heart of what aged care is all about. “I stepped into aged care 7 years ago and it's been an incredible journey. Unlike...
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6 reasons why you should become a Registered Nurse in aged care
At BaptistCare, many of our Registered Nurses have come to us from an acute care or hospital setting, choosing to make a sideways career move into aged care. One of...
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10 reasons to join the BaptistCare team
We believe that our people thrive when they are shown love, respect, reliability, and empowerment. And the results of our 2024 employee survey are evidence of this. With over 2,900...
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From business banker to aged care worker: Why Josh made this life-changing career move.
Josh had always thought he’d be a banking ‘lifer,’ working his entire career in the sector until he retired. After graduating in economics at the age of 22, he joined...
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Caring for those in their twilight years: Diaries of an Occupational Therapist in aged care.
As an Occuational Therapist, Amira always knew she wanted to care for a living, but working with older people had never been on the cards. It turned out to be...
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Do I need to be qualified to work in aged care?
Wondering how to get started in aged care? With a range of different pathways on offer, including fully-funded traineeships and a focus on transferrable skills, your new career could be...
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“I’m not just a carer, I’m a friend, an ally, an advocate.”
A BaptistCare Home Care worker reflects on 24 years in the profession. People often ask us, what makes working in aged home care so incredibly rewarding? We think these beautiful words,...
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Making innovative connections
“How do we embed an innovation culture when everyone’s so busy?” This is one of the questions Petrina Greenwood asked herself shortly after stepping into the newly-created role of Innovation...
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How BaptistCare is innovating despite workforce pressures
How BaptistCare is innovating despite workforce pressures BaptistCare’s Innovation Manager, Petrina Greenwood spoke with the Innovate for Impact podcast this month, sharing how the organisation is innovating despite workforce pressures....
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