WE WON! On the 19th August – Health Staff was named Employer of Choice 2024 in the Shoalhaven Business Awards! WHAT AN HONOUR! This annual event recognises businesses, business leaders & outstanding employees across the Shoalhaven area. This is an award we would like to share with every member who comes across of business. Thank you to the Health Staff team - Your incredible dedication, passion and drive to make a difference in the lives of people with disabilities has been recognised by all in the community and business world. Without you this would not have been possible. Health Staff was created through a family mantra of making a difference, and we have grown exponentially. Many companies may use the word ‘family’ – but this is such an important word to us, the core of our mission. We have worked tirelessly, laughed endlessly, cried tears of frustration and overcome struggles with grace. Many of us have brought our own families in to assist participants, we have family teams of carers, we have couple carers, we have moms, dads, aunts and uncles – we have been through some really difficult losses, and we have also all excitedly welcomed new little humans into the world. If this isn’t the true meaning of family, there isn’t really anything that could remotely describe it!

If you are reading this and you looked within, exhausted, in pain and hopeless – take 5 mins to read further and hear this out. First, put your hand to your heart – do you feel that beating, do you feel the air in your lungs? It might feel sore, it might feel more painful than you can manage at the moment…