🎨 Activity Assistant (Gympie)
💙 Volunteer to change lives. Yours included.
This volunteer opportunity will help to make a meaningful difference by engaging with residents and assisting the lifestyle team by contributing to the diversity of day to day activities.
🌟 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. 🌟
The social interaction, mental stimulation and physical activity that stems from these activities is a valuable part of our residents day and the care provided. From playing games, to singing, or simply enjoying a cup of tea with a resident; there is no limit to the unrealised opportunities to contribute using your own personal interests and hobbies.
We welcome volunteers to share, whatever your skills, passions and availability may be, with our residents to help make their day.
📍Location: BlueCare, Grevillea Gardens Aged Care Facility, 23 Ramsey Rd, Southside, Gympie
👉🏼 About Us: Volunteering at Grevillea Gardens, you will be part of the lifestyle team. The lifestyle team supports the residents with meaningful activities designed to provide social interaction and purpose.
✅ What you’ll be doing:
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Assist with activities.
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Interacting with residents participating in the activity
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Assisting residents to and from activities
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Visiting with residents 1-1 for conversation, reminiscence and friendship.
🎁 What’s in it for you?
- Experience the joy of making a meaningful difference
- Improve mental health and personal well being
- Do something new and different
☑️ Skills and experience important for this role include:
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Good communication
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Sense of humour
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Willingness to engage in groups
♿ This role is accessible for people using:
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Accessible toilets
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An assistance animal
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A wheelchair or mobility device
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.