🚛 Truck Offsider (Rockhampton, Campbell St)

💙 Volunteer to change lives. Yours included.

This volunteer opportunity will help to maintain the steady flow of stock to our Retail Shops which is essential to providing customers the products they are looking for.

🌟 Be part of a welcoming and diverse volunteer teams that reflects the communities we serve. We are committed to supporting people to live life in all its fullness by valuing and respecting the unique experiences, perspectives, and contributions of every person, and by creating an inclusive, accessible, and supportive environment where everyone feels they belong. 🌟

A high turnover of donated stock is critical for financing the Lifeline Queensland Crisis phone lines. Assist the driver to collect goods from donation bins and donors, including furniture, and deliver to the distribution centre, customers or Lifeline Shops, loading and unloading as required.

This opportunity would be ideal for someone who enjoys being part of a team of fellow volunteers to achieve goals while following through on carrying out all tasks safely.

Easy going retail and furniture store, with a lovely group of people and customers.

✅ What you’ll be doing:

• Collect donations at Lifeline donation points

• Assist with the delivery of sorted items

• Use the supplied lifting and moving equipment, such as pallet jacks, trolleys or lifting aids appropriately to safely transfer heavy items as required as per the Safe Work Practices (SWP);

• This role involves heavy lifting.

🎁 What’s in it for you?

• Improve mental health and personal well being

• To meet mutual obligations, student placement hours or other requirements

• Do something new and different

🎁 As a thank you for your volunteering, you’ll receive a discount card to use throughout our store. You’ll receive your card after one month of continuous volunteering 🎁

☑️ Skills and experience important for this role include:

• Average physical fitness and strength is important for this hands on role

• Previous experience in a logistics environment would be an advantage but is not essential.

• A general understanding of transporting fragile items would be helpful.

♿ This role is accessible for people using:

• This facility is not accessible

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Child safe, Child friendly

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

▪ Provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children

▪ Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services

▪ Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur

▪ Abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.

️❤️ UnitingCare’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Child Safety Statement ❤️

UnitingCare is committed to child-safe practices and to building a volunteer workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We value cultural knowledge and lived experience, and we strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply. To ensure our team mirrors the diversity of the children in our care, We actively invite volunteers from all backgrounds, including young people (15–24 years), people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds, people with disability, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and older people seeking purpose and connection.

UnitingCare is committed to equitable access and will provide reasonable adjustments to support all applicants. Please advise us of any accessibility requirements at the time of your interview.

💙 Lifeline - Keeping Queenslanders safe. Lifeline is committed to bringing hope to Australians doing it tough. A trusted national charity, we’re driven by the belief that Australian lives lost to suicide can be prevented. In Queensland we deliver our 24-hour 13 11 14 Lifeline Crisis Support line through 10 Lifeline centres – providing suicide prevention services with a non-judgemental and compassionate listening ear. Backed by more than 6000 volunteers, our network of 130 Lifeline retail shops sell new, donated and pre-loved goods to help fund our crisis support services. We also export to overseas communities, sell rags to industry and run our Lifeline Bookfest and other events to further support our services and help save lives.