Sam makes every role a winner
- 25 Jul 2023
Great people make a contribution whatever their role in an organisation.
Sam Horde is currently Volunteer and Lifestyle Coordinator at Baptcare’s Peninsula View aged care community. She has been with Baptcare since 2010, but hasn’t been pigeon-holed in any one position.
“I was recruited to work in Accounts Payable,” Sam says. “From there I moved to different roles in Facilities & Supply, before I applied for the role of Executive Assistant to the General Manager of Aged Care and Family & Community Services.
“It was great being at central office, seeing the way the organisation worked and all the ways the different parts of Baptcare operated together.”
She took time away to give birth to her second daughter, but her skills were not forgotten. “They asked me if I would like to come back and offered me a role at Peninsula View, and it’s great to be here.
“The best part of my job is fulfilling residents’ lives. Making them smile means a lot, but so does providing reassurance to families that their loved ones are being cared for.”
As she pats Peninsula View’s beloved therapy dog BooBoo, Sam lists some of the lifestyle activities she oversees: balloon volleyball, carpet bowls, Happy Hour, arts and crafts, men’s group, gardening, chair exercise, Zumba, concerts, therapy animals – and of course bingo.
Originally a hairdresser, Sam worked in insurance during the 18 years she lived in the United States. She has convinced her American husband that the Peninsula lifestyle is even better than San Francisco, which is good news for Baptcare.
“I love it here,” she says. “My manager is approachable, we are a great team, and everyone cares.
“It has been super-easy and fully supported for me to change roles within the organisation. I have now almost finished my Certificate IV in Leisure and Health, and who knows where my Baptcare career will go next.”
“Sam is really dedicated, and she has built a great team,” says Peninsula View Residential Care & Services Manager Adam Jochim. “She is always doing early research into dementia and other issues and presenting ideas about better ways we can work. Everything she does is for the betterment of our residents.”
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