When I first started working with CareMalta, I remember it operating on a smaller scale, and over the past 14 years, I have seen it open new facilities, employ more people, and specialise in the mental health and disability sector, through HILA Homes. Today CareMalta is a leader in care because it is driven by passion and people, who make CareMalta Group what it is today.
Before my employment with the company in September 2009, I was a bondholder, so I used to receive this magazine – CareNet. Then I saw a job vacancy and I decided to apply as Facility Manager at Villa Messina in Rabat. Back then, I remember, Ing. Alex Tranter as the CEO of the company.
Between 2013 to 2017, I overlooked the management of LiveLife Rehabilitation Centre, in Sliema and after 4 years I was reappointed at Villa Messina as Facility Manager. In 2020, I was appointed as Senior Manager within the senior management team and was involved in the management of Casa San Paolo during the lockdown, and later at Casa Arkati. During the same year, I was given the opportunity to work as People Operations Manager for the CareMalta Group, but I felt the need to work directly with the residents in a facility and was eventually reassigned to Casa Arkati. As of August 2023, I was appointed as Facility Manager of CareMalta’s new facility in Gozo, Dar San Guzepp, which we inaugurated in April 2024.
Throughout my career with CareMalta Group, there were many projects that I was part of which generated a sense of accomplishment and achievement, and every post that I was assigned posed challenges that made me believe more in myself and which helped me excel. I am proud to say that the company always believed in me and today, after all these years I feel that its culture and values are instilled in me.
A favourite memory of mine about my work with CareMalta goes back to around 5 years ago when we organised an event to create awareness about Alzheimer’s. It was an event in which we invited residents to read a poem, we had two musicians playing the cello and we also invited residents with dementia. It was such a perfect event not only for us who planned it and made sure that everything was plain sailing but also for Ms. Natalie Briffa Farrugia, who was the CEO at the time and who had always wished to organise such an event for our residents.
Every day, every month, and every year means a lot for CareMalta, a company that appreciates the work carried out by all employees, a company that wants to see its employees thrive, and a company that will always put the residents at the centre of everything.