Aged care home looks to Philippines for staff
A Woy Woy aged care home will recruit staff from the Philippines "in coming months".
Blue Wave Living chief executive Mr Matt Downie said: "We have recently been officially approved by the Immigration Department to sponsor some overseas candidates.
"We are looking forward to welcoming a number of new qualified staff in the coming months, initially from the Philippines, to join our Blue Wave team."
He said that Blue Wave had engaged Groworx "to assist us in bringing across some workforce support from overseas".
Mr Downie said: "One of the on-going challenges in our industry is workforce.
"Our industry is critically short of qualified workers, with us all vying to attract the same pool of staff which simply falls short of industry needs.
"As we plan to grow in size, and provision of increasing care requirements, we do need to grow our staffing levels.
"While we have continued to recruit locally as best we can, it falls short of our future requirements."
Mr Downie said more staff would be needed as resident numbers increased following completion of current building works.
SOURCE:
Newsletter, 31 Mar 2023
Matt Downie, Blue Wave Living