Study leads to career in health and care services for Aggie from Christies Beach
Agnes (Aggie) became unemployed after a series of personal life events lead her to withdraw from the workforce. Throughout this, she developed a desire to give back through health and care services after seeing the wonderful palliative care team supporting her family.
Looking to upskill to re-enter employment, she was referred by her Disability Employment Services (DES) Consultant to attain her Certificate III in Individual Support with Sureway Skills Training (SST), due to the Trainer Support available.
Aggie dove straight into online study with Trainer Support on hand as she needed. Her confidence noticeably grew as she progressed through course subjects. This was exhibited through her increased engagement, self-motivation and development of successful study habits.
She cruised through her theory assessments. With great support and partnering from SST and her Employment Consultants, a Work Experience placement was sourced with Infin8 Care.
Aggie promptly completed further online learning modules as part of the host employer’s induction.
“At first it was daunting”, she said; however, Aggie took ownership, completing her required 120 hours’ work experience to have her Observation Record signed off.
SST Training Facilitator Darren said “Aggie is a model SST student, DES client, and Work Experience participant. It was very rewarding to see her offered casual work with her host employer, Infin8 Care”.
“Aggie tells me that she has enjoyed learning on the job from others”.
When asked how she would describe her new career, Aggie explained “It is absolutely fantastic. I love it! Everyone’s really good, really helpful. There is never a day thinking ‘Oh I have to go to work’, instead it’s ‘let’s go to work’.”
Aggie has recently been invited to apply for permanent shifts.
Congratulations to Aggie for pursuing a career that she is passionate about, where she delivers care to other families with empathy and compassion daily.
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