About us

Workforce Extensions Sunshine Health is a premier nursing agency, dedicated to meeting your health and aged care staffing needs. Our team of experienced consultants have more than 80 years of collective experience placing temp and permanent healthcare staff in a variety of roles. With our meticulous screening process, you can be confident that we exclusively offer fully-qualified and compliant staff, ready to fulfil your healthcare staffing needs.

WE Sunshine Health extend your potential through:

  1. A dedicated commitment to industry COMPLIANCE across the healthcare landscape
  2. The attraction and RECRUITMENT of talented healthcare professionals who are passionate about what they do
  3. Free CLINICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES to support our workforce grow their skills and careers
  4. Partnering with our workforce and clients to grow, nurture and retain NOVICE healthcare staff in the industry
  5. The provision of MEANINGFUL WORK that aligns to our workforce’s lifestyle needs while supporting our clients’ care for Australians
  6. Supplying COMPLIANT, HOLISTIC care professionals to empower our valued Clients to deliver safe and sustainable healthcare to their customers

Roles WE Regularly Fill:

  • Personal Care Assistants
  • Registered Nurses
  • Enrolled Nurses (EN)
  • Clinical Nurses (CN)
  • Clinical Managers (CM)
  • Facility Managers (FM)

WE Sunshine Health are committed to extending our workforce’s potential through the provision of education, coaching and training to grow our people in line with their career aspirations. This allows us to recruit people wanting to grow in and across industry and build staffing pools with expertise like no other competitor.

WE work in partnership with our people to extend their potential in line with their passions, and retain them through ongoing professional and clinical development in their contract experiences and great clinical support and education. WE Sunshine Health are committed to changing the face of Nursing Agency labour hire through the commitment to our core value proposition.

 

In 2024, WE Sunshine Health have also extended our expertise in healthcare staffing solutions into the Acute domain!

 

Leveraging from our great success in attracting and retaining both Aged and Community Care professionals, Workforce Extensions Sunshine Health have now extended our potential to serve you with the provision of Acute Healthcare staff across core specialties. This means Sunshine Health can support private and public Hospitals with experienced and compliant staffing solutions to ease roster deficits and ensure your patients’ acute care needs don’t miss a beat.

Our Acute Care services offer a full range of personnel to support every facet of the acute hospital setting, from emergency to post operative and generalist medical and surgical specialists. The Sunshine Health brand has all your healthcare staffing needs under one roof.

WE Sunshine Health provide staffing services to suit your needs with an ever-growing pool of credentialled and registered clinicians who meet industry-standard compliance requirements including Assistants in Nursing (AINs), Enrolled Nurses (ENs) and Registered Nurses (RNs). Our Acute staff are available for ad-hoc roster deficits in their local areas or for longer contract positions across Australia to offer you and your team the time and space to recruit to your own needs. WE Sunshine Health Acute also offer competitive permanent recruitment solutions into the future.

With a dedicated Clinical Education team with more than 45 years of industry experience, we are committed to growing our staff to exceed their potential and offer our Hospital Client services with proactive support to provide clinical oversight to all feedback and incidents. These points of difference assure our quality provision of staffing solutions you can trust.

Whatever your staffing needs, call us seven days a week from 05:00 am – 22:00 pm. WE offer flexible and customised staffing solutions to support your services.

 

WE Sunshine Health are your one stop healthcare staffing solution provider.

 

Aged Care                            Community Care Services                        Acute Care

 

Sunshine Health knows healthcare.

Who we are

Workforce Extensions Sunshine Health, a renowned healthcare recruitment agency, excels in seamlessly connecting top-tier healthcare staff with facilities throughout the Queensland region. Our team of seasoned recruitment and allocations consultants, backed by an accomplished healthcare management team, possesses extensive firsthand industry knowledge and management expertise. With an in-depth comprehension of the health and aged care industry, our consultants thrive at connecting healthcare professionals with roles that align with their expertise and preferences. We form strategic partnerships with our clients, providing customised staffing solutions tailored to their unique needs and organisational culture. Our commitment to quality ensures the provision of qualified and compliant staff who seamlessly integrate into your team. As a testament to our appreciation for our peoples' ongoing hard work, we reward them with a comprehensive range of benefits and bonus schemes, valuing their contributions as members of our team.

Delivering exceptional service, time and time again

The Workforce Extensions point of difference is simple, our national network of professional and local owner-operators will outperform with client and candidate service delivery. Our franchisees live and work in the local community with family and friends, they are personally invested to ensure you get the best quality service in the area. WE manage your workforce. WE simplify your operation. WE are your on-hand Human Resources professionals. WE extend your potential.

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    Location

    Unit 12 / 107-111 Morayfield Road Caboolture South QLD 4510

    T: (07) 5343 7969

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    Our Team

    Erin & Adrian Gorlick
    Business Owner/Operators
    Erin and Adrian commenced operation of the Workforce Extensions (WE) Sunshine Health Aged Care business in March 2020 with the sole objective to serve the residential aged care industry with high-quality registered nurses, enrolled nurses and care staff. This commitment was born from Erin’s extensive experience as a Registered Nurse in various senior leadership roles in Residential Aged Care facilities and her subsequent work with the Aged Care and Quality Commission. Adrian has over twenty years’ experience in business development and the provision of staffing solutions in the Health and Nursing Agency domain. Adrian has a passion for a collaborative approach to staffing solutions and his commitment to customer service and understanding of the industry allows Sunshine Health to customise their services to each client. WE Sunshine Health has since established itself as an industry leader in the servicing of Queensland’s big brand aged care providers and continues to be recognised for exceptional quality staffing solutions for the aged care sector in metropolitan, regional and remote facilities across Queensland and Northern New South Wales.
    Erin & Adrian Gorlick
    Business Owner/Operators
    Erin and Adrian commenced operation of the Workforce Extensions (WE) Sunshine Health Aged Care business in March 2020 with the sole objective to serve the residential aged care industry with high-quality registered nurses, enrolled nurses and care staff. This commitment was born from Erin’s extensive experience as a Registered Nurse in various senior leadership roles in Residential Aged Care facilities and her subsequent work with the Aged Care and Quality Commission. Adrian has over twenty years’ experience in business development and the provision of staffing solutions in the Health and Nursing Agency domain. Adrian has a passion for a collaborative approach to staffing solutions and his commitment to customer service and understanding of the industry allows Sunshine Health to customise their services to each client. WE Sunshine Health has since established itself as an industry leader in the servicing of Queensland’s big brand aged care providers and continues to be recognised for exceptional quality staffing solutions for the aged care sector in metropolitan, regional and remote facilities across Queensland and Northern New South Wales.
    Erin Gorlick
    Managing Director
    Erin’s driving passion is her dedication to quality health service delivery. Erin brings twenty years of residential aged care experience, community nursing, and disability services to the Sunshine Health business, and has dedicated her professional life to caring for Australians. Erin has worked and progressed through the nursing hierarchy from her early years as a nursing assistant, through to a registered nurse to then being promoted to various clinical leadership and management roles for several large, approved providers. Erin has a Bachelor of Nursing and has completed a post graduate program in Aged and Community Care. Erin has also worked for key industry bodies in the realms of auditing and clinical governance and is passionate about retaining care and nursing staff in the industry. Erin’s devotion to the aged care sector, support of Clinical and Care staff in the industry and passion to provide quality care to our residents and clients is a driving force for how Sunshine Health came to be.
    Erin Gorlick
    Managing Director
    Erin’s driving passion is her dedication to quality health service delivery. Erin brings twenty years of residential aged care experience, community nursing, and disability services to the Sunshine Health business, and has dedicated her professional life to caring for Australians. Erin has worked and progressed through the nursing hierarchy from her early years as a nursing assistant, through to a registered nurse to then being promoted to various clinical leadership and management roles for several large, approved providers. Erin has a Bachelor of Nursing and has completed a post graduate program in Aged and Community Care. Erin has also worked for key industry bodies in the realms of auditing and clinical governance and is passionate about retaining care and nursing staff in the industry. Erin’s devotion to the aged care sector, support of Clinical and Care staff in the industry and passion to provide quality care to our residents and clients is a driving force for how Sunshine Health came to be.
    Natalie Sommer
    General Manager
    Natalie leads the Sunshine Health team in the operational growth of the Sunshine Health Aged Care business while defining and informing the expansions of the Sunshine Health brand with Sunshine Health Community and Sunshine Health Acute Care. With more than 25 years in the healthcare industry Natalie has a reputation for building high performing teams and workforces while concurrently refining and honing business operations to deliver seamless organisation-wide transformations in culture, business processes and talent acquisition, growth, and retention. With a passion for continuous improvement and commitment to industry compliance coupled with credentials in program, project and change management, Natalie systematically increases workforces, grows customer service capability, and delivers systemic business efficiencies. With a track record of delivering 40% growth year on year through mass recruitment and retention, she drives business performance and teams with profitable results.
    Natalie Sommer
    General Manager
    Natalie leads the Sunshine Health team in the operational growth of the Sunshine Health Aged Care business while defining and informing the expansions of the Sunshine Health brand with Sunshine Health Community and Sunshine Health Acute Care. With more than 25 years in the healthcare industry Natalie has a reputation for building high performing teams and workforces while concurrently refining and honing business operations to deliver seamless organisation-wide transformations in culture, business processes and talent acquisition, growth, and retention. With a passion for continuous improvement and commitment to industry compliance coupled with credentials in program, project and change management, Natalie systematically increases workforces, grows customer service capability, and delivers systemic business efficiencies. With a track record of delivering 40% growth year on year through mass recruitment and retention, she drives business performance and teams with profitable results.
    Amanda Hamilton
    Clinical and Compliance Manager
    Amanda leads the Sunshine Health Clinical Education arm of the business with more than 15 years clinical experience in aged care and acute settings from the floor to senior leadership roles. Amanda leads the clinical education team in the definition of industry standard best practice compliance for each sector’s workforce. Our commitment to compliance governs our recruitment of healthcare professionals at the front door across our Aged, Acute and Community Care workforces. Amanda and her team hold more than 45 years’ experience and support WE Sunshine Health staff in realising their career aspirations through comprehensive education and coaching. This support plays a key role in our retention of healthcare staff at the height of a universal shortage, for each business. Amanda and her team monitor and maintain these standards across each workforce to assure our confident provision of healthcare staff is unparalleled to that of our competitors. Amanda’s passion for education and retaining healthcare staff to industry is best showcased in the development of our Novice Nurse Program which fosters senior clinician mentoring across our staffing pools for newly graduated staff to ensure entry to industry is supported and staff are nurtured in their growth and careers.
    Amanda Hamilton
    Clinical and Compliance Manager
    Amanda leads the Sunshine Health Clinical Education arm of the business with more than 15 years clinical experience in aged care and acute settings from the floor to senior leadership roles. Amanda leads the clinical education team in the definition of industry standard best practice compliance for each sector’s workforce. Our commitment to compliance governs our recruitment of healthcare professionals at the front door across our Aged, Acute and Community Care workforces. Amanda and her team hold more than 45 years’ experience and support WE Sunshine Health staff in realising their career aspirations through comprehensive education and coaching. This support plays a key role in our retention of healthcare staff at the height of a universal shortage, for each business. Amanda and her team monitor and maintain these standards across each workforce to assure our confident provision of healthcare staff is unparalleled to that of our competitors. Amanda’s passion for education and retaining healthcare staff to industry is best showcased in the development of our Novice Nurse Program which fosters senior clinician mentoring across our staffing pools for newly graduated staff to ensure entry to industry is supported and staff are nurtured in their growth and careers.
    Karen Parker
    Recruitment and Compliance Manager
    Karen has been a part of the WE Sunshine Health team since early 2021 and has played an integral part in the Sunshine Health business growth to date. Karen brings over 30 years of customer service, staff training, and management experience including lived experience as a care provider with more than seven years of care delivery in the aged care sector. Karen’s skills and experience have seen her inform and function in key operational roles from allocations, recruitment, payroll, business development, regional contracting, and branch management before seizing the Recruitment and Compliance Manager opportunity to pursue her passion for healthcare talent acquisition and retention. Karen leads our Recruitment and Compliance Team to ensure we only onboard the best quality healthcare staff and assures that our industry compliance is confirmed at the front door. With lived experience in providing quality care to vulnerable Australians, Karen assures Sunshine Health attract only the best staff for clients, recognising our people are our brand.
    Karen Parker
    Recruitment and Compliance Manager
    Karen has been a part of the WE Sunshine Health team since early 2021 and has played an integral part in the Sunshine Health business growth to date. Karen brings over 30 years of customer service, staff training, and management experience including lived experience as a care provider with more than seven years of care delivery in the aged care sector. Karen’s skills and experience have seen her inform and function in key operational roles from allocations, recruitment, payroll, business development, regional contracting, and branch management before seizing the Recruitment and Compliance Manager opportunity to pursue her passion for healthcare talent acquisition and retention. Karen leads our Recruitment and Compliance Team to ensure we only onboard the best quality healthcare staff and assures that our industry compliance is confirmed at the front door. With lived experience in providing quality care to vulnerable Australians, Karen assures Sunshine Health attract only the best staff for clients, recognising our people are our brand.
    Christina Grubisa
    Community Care Services Manager
    Christina leads the Sunshine Health Community Care team and plays a crucial role in overseeing and coordinating our community-based programs. Christina has more than 25 years’ experience in the delivery of Community Care Services including in the Aged Care and Disability sectors, and holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA). She has previously worked as a Registered Nurse in the Community Home Care Sector and progressed through to Quality and Service Manager roles. Christina is passionate about the delivery of quality home care services that are tailored to the clients’ unique needs, exceeding expectations in care and support. Christina is deeply committed to advancing and empowering our home care and clinical services for the incredible team at Workforce Extensions Sunshine Health.
    Christina Grubisa
    Community Care Services Manager
    Christina leads the Sunshine Health Community Care team and plays a crucial role in overseeing and coordinating our community-based programs. Christina has more than 25 years’ experience in the delivery of Community Care Services including in the Aged Care and Disability sectors, and holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA). She has previously worked as a Registered Nurse in the Community Home Care Sector and progressed through to Quality and Service Manager roles. Christina is passionate about the delivery of quality home care services that are tailored to the clients’ unique needs, exceeding expectations in care and support. Christina is deeply committed to advancing and empowering our home care and clinical services for the incredible team at Workforce Extensions Sunshine Health.
    Penny McWilliams
    Operations Support Manager
    Penny joined the Workforce Extensions Sunshine Health Community Care Services team in 2024. Penny brings many years of experience in homecare and clinical care, and has a strong commitment for care services that are delivered in the Homecare environment. As an Operations Support Manager with clinical expertise in Homecare, Penny plays a crucial role in ensuring efficient operations while maintaining high standards of care. With a focus on quality, Penny oversees compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. She understands the unique needs of older adults and is committed to the delivery of safe and high-quality services.
    Penny McWilliams
    Operations Support Manager
    Penny joined the Workforce Extensions Sunshine Health Community Care Services team in 2024. Penny brings many years of experience in homecare and clinical care, and has a strong commitment for care services that are delivered in the Homecare environment. As an Operations Support Manager with clinical expertise in Homecare, Penny plays a crucial role in ensuring efficient operations while maintaining high standards of care. With a focus on quality, Penny oversees compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. She understands the unique needs of older adults and is committed to the delivery of safe and high-quality services.

    Our Services

    Total Healthcare Assistance

    Delivering Exceptional Service, Time and Time Again

     

    The WE Sunshine Health’s points of difference are simple: our healthcare footprint now extends our ability to supply healthcare workers across industry from Aged Care to Community Care and now Acute Care. WE are your one stop shop for healthcare resourcing from ad-hoc roster deficits, short and long-term contracts to permanent placements, Sunshine Health has your staffing solutions covered. Our franchisees live and work in the local community with family and friends, and are personally invested to ensure you get the best quality service in your area. WE manage your workforce. WE simplify your operation. WE are your on-hand Human Resource professionals. WE extend your potential.

     

    End-to-end Recruitment Experience

     

    Our team places strong emphasis on tailoring our approach to each candidate, ensuring they find a job that aligns perfectly with their requirements, goals, and availability. We are deeply committed to promoting quality care and fostering a positive work environment. To achieve this, we take on the responsibility of managing the entire HR and payroll process on behalf of our clients.

    But we’re more than just job matchmakers. We go the extra mile to support our candidates, offering a benefits package that includes competitive rates and a rewards program designed exclusively for our people. We collaborate with industry to ensure our compliance exceeds national standards facilitating access to top-quality compliance training that commences at the front door of our recruitment process.

     

    NEW Acute Care Specialities

     

    Workforce Extensions Sunshine Health also offers the full range of clinical specialties for the hospital setting, including some very niche skill sets such as sterilisation assistants, dialysis staff and Nurse Educators. WE understand the universal shortage of healthcare staff is very real and pride ourselves on our ability to attract and retain care staff because we invest in their growth to retain them to industry. Our Acute Care team is committed to ensuring all hospital and primary health services are staffed to assure every Australian gets the best possible care no matter where they live.

    If WE don’t have the skill set you need, our national recruitment team will source it for you and customise our supply of the skill set in partnership with the service in need. The Sunshine Health team are flexible, innovative, and agile.

    We can help you and your hospital and/or your primary health services with:

    • Ad-hoc or short-term contract staffing solutions across all acute specialty areas.
    • Longer term contract roles that promote continuity of care across the specialty areas to keep your patients safe through their acute treatment journey.
    • Clinical Senior and Leadership staff that can hit-the-ground running to allow you to support your regular team access annual or personal leave considerations.

     

    Our Value Proposition to You:

     

    Vision

    WE Sunshine Health provide specialty healthcare professionals to meet your ad-hoc or continuity service needs to ensure all Australians get the care they need no matter where they live.

    Mission

    WE Sunshine Health exists to help support hospital and health services and ensure Australians get the acute and chronic healthcare they need regardless of where they live.

    Our Values

    WE Sunshine Health places our core values at the heart of building our workforce to exceed your hospital and health services’ staffing deficits.