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About the Role

This role involves general gardening activities across a Retirement Village to ensure the grounds are always looking and operating at their absolute best. You will create new gardens, care for indoor plants, maintain nursery stock, tend to aviaries, ponds, and garden features, and keep paths and common areas clean and tidy.

Responsibilities

• Create new gardens using existing skills and horticultural knowledge
• Care for indoor plants, including recycling and re-potting schedules
• Maintain nursery stock to ensure healthy and well-presented plants
• Maintain gardens and grounds, including watering, raking and lawn mowing
• Tend to aviaries, ponds and garden features to keep them clean and functioning
• Clean paths and common areas to ensure safe and tidy shared spaces
• Collect and dispose of garden waste (and general waste when required)
• Remove leaves and twigs, including clearing road gutters where relevant
• Maintain gardening equipment and ensure all tools are kept in good working order
• Secure tools and equipment used across gardens and grounds

Requirements

• Basic working knowledge of quality systems as they relate to gardening services
• Demonstrated ability to work within a team and to take direction
• Competent written and verbal communication skills
• Basic computer literacy
• Demonstrated compassion, tolerance, patience and empathy for aged people
• Willing to learn about aged care and the principles guiding this sector
• Ability to interact with the residents on a day-to-day basis and have a genuine interest in their wellbeing
• A valid Police Check or a valid National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) check, or potentially both, is mandatory for working in the Aged Care sector.

Skills

• Gardening
• Horticultural knowledge
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Computer literacy
• Compassion
• Tolerance
• Patience
• Empathy

Location

• Narrabeen

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Entry-level

Salary/Compensations

• Non-profit salary packaging (up to $15,900 for Everyday Living Expenses & $2,650 Meal Entertainment allowance)

Benefits

• Non-profit salary packaging
• Career and professional development opportunities
• Supportive team environment
• Stable employment

About the Company

• RSL LifeCare provides care and services to veterans and seniors in communities or at home.
• Their vision is creating proud communities living their best lives.
• They have a legacy of supporting veterans and their families for over 100 years.
• RSL LifeCare is a large social purpose organisation.
• RSL LifeCare is a leader in senior living, providing high quality retirement villages, aged care homes (nursing homes) and personal home care throughout NSW and the ACT.
• RSL LifeCare is a successful and growing not-for profit organisation which began as a haven for war veterans and today is open to all Australians.

Equal Opportunity

• We welcome and encourage applications from people across our diverse community, especially from Veterans, current serving ADF personnel, their families and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants.
• We believe everyone has the right to feel safe, respected, valued and heard regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or disability.