Staff Matters July 8, 2020 Issue 265 Week 2
CARING ABOUT OUR STAFF
EOFY AFFORD ACHIEVEMENTS! As we kick start the new financial year, we wanted to highlight some of the incredible achievements and congratulate you on a phenomenal 20192020 Financial Year! Our teams absolutely worked hard throughout the FY19-20 and have continued to grow our businesses across Afford. Your efforts shine bright in the figures and with our award-winning services and supports. Over 2019-2020 our Customer Care team welcomed 567 new clients to the Afford family! It is heart-warming to think that our team have supported 567 people to achieve their NDIS goals and live their best life. It’s also an incredible $12.3mil worth of new revenue to Afford! “A truly amazing achievement that I hope you are all incredibly proud of – I know that I am” – Christina Emmanouel, Executive Manager, Commercial Development & Legal, Company Secretary. Please join us in a huge congratulations to Kirstin Healey - National Group Home Sales, who has smashed the Group Home sales. Kirstin has welcomed a whopping 57 new residents to the Afford Lifestyle, to a value of $13.1mil!! As a one-person team, this is an unbelievable achievement, well done Kirstin!
In This Issue 1
EOFY Afford Achievements! Swag Selfie Trivia
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Get Paid More With Afford! Staff Profile
Affordian’s Special Fur Friends Reminder
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Are You Up to The TikTok Challenge? Handyman Timetable Selfies of the Week Upcoming Events Trivia Answer
Afford Employment also knocked the ball out of the park. DES welcomed 35 new participants with caseload numbers being 844, a 4.3% increase! SLES has also been growing, predominately being an ‘end of year’ intake and regular exits due to employment opportunities, the numbers tend to fluctuate. SLES welcomed 26 new clients between 1/7/2019 – 30/06/2020, that’s a total of $475,853 service bookings! There were some excellent outcomes from SLES with the primary goal, ultimately being employment for SLES Trainees. SLES had six clients exit, or transition into mainstream employment and nine clients exited or transitioned to our ADE factories across NSW. Our ADEs have grown and blossomed over the last financial year. Not only has there has been a huge positive culture shift, but they welcomed 32 new clients with a total of $399,322.17 service bookings. I’m in awe of you all. Here’s to an even bigger FY20-21!!!
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STAFF PROFILE NAME: Maria Jara Abril POSITION: Receptionist LOCATION: Minchinbury, Head Office FAVOURITE MUSIC/SONG? Say So - Doja Cat FAVOURITE MOVIE? All of Harry Potter movies FAVOURITE HOBBIES? Dancing and playing games on my Nintendo Switch FAVOURITE FOODS? Lasagna IF YOU COULD BE AN ANIMAL, WHAT WOULD YOU BE? A cat WHAT IS YOUR DREAM HOLIDAY DESTINATION? Greece or Switzerland IF YOU HAD THE POWER, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE ABOUT THE WORLD? No poverty IF YOU HAD TO TEACH SOMETHING, WHAT WOULD YOU TEACH? Spanish SOMETHING NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT ME? I love to bake cake or sweets
July 8, 2020 Issue 265
GET PAID MORE WITH AFFORD!
As an Affordian, we invest in you. We invest our time and money into training you to be the best staff in the sector. Our services and supports are award-winning and that is because of our exceptional team, because of you. As an Employer of Choice, Afford is always looking for ways to reward staff achievements, recognise outstanding staff efforts and celebrate success. We are so proud of the hardworking team that we have and that is the reason we continue to give back with an annual addition to your yearly pay rise. Under the award, the required amount for the pay rise was only 1.7%. Afford has more than doubled this to 3.5%! With so much happening in the world, it’s important that we focus on our frontline staff who continue to provide those essential services during the challenging times of COVID. Afford has immense gratitude for its employees and that is why our surpluses are reinvested into services and supports for clients, as well as extensive training and higher wages for staff. Profit made at Afford goes back to our team and it always will. No one does it like us! We genuinely care, which is why Afford will continue to provide the best pay in the sector for our staff, because we value you. This is another way for Afford to show gratitude for our staff going above and beyond to make us the best disability service provider in Australia. Remember – you will see the wage increase from the first full pay period of July 2020.
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July 8, 2020 Issue 265
Staff Matters AFFORDIAN’S SPECIAL FUR FRIENDS
Stefania Ravaschio works as an LSA at our Logan Village Group Home in Queensland. She has been with Afford going onto a year in August and loves living in laid back Queensland. We know as Affordians that we are all huge animal lovers, with our PAWSOME selfies featuring the smiling faces of our staff and their fur babies every week in our staff newsletter. But Stefania is one lucky Affordian, her pawsome selfies are something else! She recently moved to a rural suburb in Queensland with her husband called Kooralbyn, she noticed pretty quickly that a few kangaroos and wallabies liked to visit and eat the grass on their 4500 square meters property. Though the animals were all cautious and would often jump away if she approached, all but one would always stay! So Stefania named her Graziosa (pretty in Italian), although the little roo doesn’t live with Stefania, she comes inside the house to have a look around and often takes a nibble at the cat food! Graziosa likes to eat capsicums from Stefani’s hand and loves a good belly scratch. Giggles is another unusual fur baby that we don’t often see our staff own. He is a red ringed neck parrot who Stefania adopted from the RSPCA in November 2019. Giggles is very shy and still has behaviour problems, though he is recovering well, Stefania hopes to one day take him to visit some of our residents at the Logan Village Group Home where she works. PAWSOME!!
Reminder! Staff please be reminded about the importance of the following: • It is important to have all of the required information ready when calling in a Red Alert. • Please remember to pay attention to the quality of progress notes. Do not write just “Johnny had a good day today”, you need to include facts about how we supported Johnny today. What activities he joined, did we support him in personal care, administer medication, any behaviours etc. If you have questions or concerns, please speak to your Team Leader.
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July 8, 2020 Issue 265
Staff Matters ARE YOU UP TO THE TIKTOK CHALLENGE?
We are calling all Affordians to join the TikTok Challenge! Are you the winning team that can create the winning TikTok, incorporating our new jackets? Last Friday, you may have seen a post from District Manager, Wayne Adamson, who shared a video on the Afford Staff Facebook page of the Mt Druitt team doing a TikTok challenge in their brand-new jackets. So, we thought, what better way to bring some culture back into the workday with a challenge! Get involved now, grab out your mobile phones and download the TikTok app to be a part of the latest challenge. Teams need to record their TikTok or video/boomerang and upload to the Afford Staff Page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1723801620991351/. Please send a request to join if you are not already a member, to jointhe fun! Grab your workmates and have some fun! Make sure you get creative and think outside the box! THE BEST AND MOST CREATIVE VIDEO WILL WIN A PRIZE!! TikTok the challenge clock is ticking!
Handyman Timetable Meet Our Handyman Tahier
Our Handy Man, Tahier, will be at the following sites this week: - Monday 13th July:
Tahier Away
- Tuesday 14th July:
Tahier Away
- Wednesday 15th July: Campbelltown and Leumeah - Thursday 16th July:
Narellan Vale, Narellan and Glen Alpine
- Friday 17th July:
Jamisontown and Butterflies
SELFIES OF THE WEEK
mpbelltown Selfie Above: Ca e, hanging an Ke n LSA, Morga pond with out at the duck kee and an Fr n, clients Be Kerem.
Pawsome Se lfie Above: Accommod ation LSA, VIC Rak Kapoor, wit h her furbab hi y.
UPCOMING EVENTS DATE:
EVENT:
10th July
Afford Academy Launch
17th July
National Pyjama Day
24th July
Stress Down Day
1-31st July
Dry July
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