IRT A Multi Australian Business Award Winner

National seniors' lifestyle and care provider, IRT Group has been recognised as a three-time Winner in The Australian Business Awards 2016. 

The organisation is one of Australia's largest community-based providers of aged care, home care and lifestyle communities and won two Community Contribution awards and an Employer of Choice award.

“It’s an honour for IRT to be recognised as a multi-award Winner for Community Contribution and Employer of Choice in The Australian Business Awards 2016,” IRT Group Chief Executive Nieves Murray said.

"The Community Contribution awards are a wonderful recognition of the work we do enriching the lives of older Australians through our IRT Foundation and our innovative lifestyle community, Kemira at IRT William Beach Gardens."

Ms Murray said IRT Foundation is helping to make Australian communities more age-friendly by empowering and enabling older people.

"We do this by arming them with better information from new research, supporting age-friendly community groups, addressing barriers to workforce participation and shifting perceptions of ageing through our YouTube channel The Good Life and Speaker Series," she said.

Kemira at IRT William Beach Gardens, Kanahooka was IRT's second Community Contribution award winner. In describing Kemira Ms Murray said "it's a special community where ageing people with intellectual disability and their primary carers can age together in a supportive environment.

"Kemira features 12 universally designed villas, a community centre and respite centre that were co-designed with disability service providers and is a great example of social innovation to address an unmet need," she said.

Ms Murray said that being an Employer of Choice was part of the secret to IRT's success.

"Attracting and retaining the right people helps enable us to deliver on our commitment to give back to the community," she said.

“This is the third year running IRT has won an Employer of Choice award and it's a testament to the value we place on our employees — we pride ourselves on customer service and we support our employees to do the best job they can.”

Click here to find out more about IRT Group's aged care services.

Pictured: 2016 IRT Foundation Community Grant Ceremony by Kirk Gilmore