“My mother started here in 1950. She was one of the first intakes of school here and then my sister trained here as well,” she said.
“So as a family, we have been here for 73 years.”
In fact, not only has Ms Moysey worked at the crèche available through the workplace, she was also one of the first children to attend it.
In the 1950s there was a shortage of nurses, and Ms Moysey said her mother, who was on maternity leave, was asked to return to work.
“My mum said, ‘well, who looks after my child?’ So I actually went to the crèche they set up,” she said.
Ms Moysey has spent almost all of her aged care career in Echuca, with only a small secondment to Bendigo for further training taking her away from the community.
Her hardest years in the industry have been those since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which she said had depleted the number of workers and increased required work.
“It was very hard and as you see, we are still wearing masks three years later,” she said.
Despite this, she said the support she and her colleagues received through the community was a real highlight during an otherwise difficult period.
“People would see you in your uniform and would actually come up while you’re shopping and thank you for the work that you did,” Ms Moysey said.
She said that over the years, through training so many of the new staff and by looking after her colleagues’ children in the crèche, it was “amazing” the generations of people she had been involved with.
Few people have worked at Glanville Village for anywhere near as long as Ms Moysey, but she said there was a real “camaraderie” with the women that had been such an extensive part of her life.
“I’ve made a lot of friends, some that have passed and some that are still here, over those years,” she said.
Ms Moysey said there had been immeasurable changes during her lifetime at the aged care facility, including the move from a more hospitalised setting to nursing homes that felt more like just that — a home.
“They have their furniture in their rooms and their family can come when they wish, and all that stuff. It’s nothing like visiting a hospital,” she said.
Ms Moysey said she had “very much enjoyed” seeing these changes occur over the years.
Glanville Village was such a meaningful part of Ms Moysey’s family’s life that her mother, who had also worked there, asked to spend the end of her life there.
“So she started here in the first school, second intake, and she passed away here,” Ms Moysey said.
“The hospital has been a very intricate part of my life. From when I was going to the crèche as a child to now after working there for so many years.”
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