👫Community Support Worker (Cairns, Manunda)

📃 This volunteer opportunity will help to Supporting service users with emergency relief, referrals, general tasks 

Assist families to access support services both internal and external to the organisation, including practical and crisis support where necessary and provide follow up as required. 

Develop and initiate activities in consultation with the Local Services Manager delivered from a community hub that promote personal and social development and a sense of belonging and well-being in the community, with an emphasis on responding to identified need, access to community services and facilities and the development and maintenance of personal and social survival skills. 

This will be servicing clients in the vicinity of Manunda and surrounding areas. The Hub is also known as the Manunda Neighbourhood Centre. 

It would be for roughly two mornings a week, working with the 1 full time and 1 part time community support workers that are employed at the hub 

📍Location: Family Services | Manunda Neighbourhood Centre, 98 Birch Street Manunda QLD 4870 

✅ What you’ll be doing: 

▪️ Assisting with emergency relief for clients that arrive at the hub.  ▪️ Assisting at Pantry day on Thursday mornings  ▪️ Assisting with Hub activities such as playgroup, client visits, training events, and day to day activities  ▪️ Assist with referral reviews and first point of contact with clients 

🎁 What’s in it for you? 

▪️ Gain invaluable workplace experience 

💍 Commitment: Get started from as little as 3-4 hours Weekly  

☑️ Requirements of this role include: 

        ▪️ Cert III or IIII in Community Support Work 

 

☑️ We’ll need to do the following checks before you start: 

▪️  Working with children  ▪️ Drivers License  ▪️  Reference checks

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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.