To date, research on aged care workforce wellbeing has focused on reducing negative work aspects that cause high rates of burnout, stress and depression. However, less attention has been paid to the positive aspects of aged care work and how to amplify these to enhance worker wellbeing. This research project has three complementary strands: (i) qualitative interviews with aged care workers across residential and home care settings, analysed using salutogenic and job design frameworks; (ii) a media analysis of more than 300 articles across 15 national and state Australian news outlets (2023–2024), examining how aged care workers are portrayed in public discourse; and (iii) a national survey examining the prevalence of psychosocial hazards and workers' access to, and perceived effectiveness of, wellbeing interventions. Qualitative findings indicate that workers' sense of wellbeing is interwoven with their capacity to provide tailored, empathetic, relationship-based care. We term this approach worker-person-centred care and highlight the added value of this approach, not only for the care recipient, but for the worker. Preliminary media analysis suggests workers are largely absent or marginalised in coverage of the aged care sector; this undermines the value of workers and fails to recognise the importance of worker-person-centred care. Aged care workers' wellbeing is linked to purposefully providing care that is tailored to individuals, relationship-based, and resourced within a collaborative team environment. Reframing worker wellbeing around this insight suggests the need for interventions that resource worker-person-centred care and challenge the undervaluing of aged care workers in workplaces and public life.