💙 Volunteer to change lives. Yours included.
This volunteer opportunity will help to assist staff to deliver ice cream delights to residents in our Aged Care service!
🌟 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. 🌟
Love spreading smiles? Become an Ice Cream Angel at our Kirra Aged Care home! Help deliver sweet ice cream treats to residents each week and brighten their day, one scoop at a time with our special designed ice cream cart on Fridays 1:00pm - 2.30pm.
✅ What you’ll be doing:
▪️ Help prepare our ice cream trolley with ice-cream, sprinkles, spoons, cones, ice packs, music
▪️ Push trolley around the service, taking turns with a staff member
▪️ Serve requested dessert
▪️ Help pack away and clean up
🎁 What’s in it for you?
- ️Experience the joy of making a meaningful difference
☑️ Skills and experience important for this role include:
▪️Do you enjoy chatting with older people and spreading smiles, this role is for you!
▪️Help prepare our ice cream trolley, then deliver delicious frozen treats room-to-room while engaging with residents and staff.
▪️Finish the afternoon with an ice cream and helping pack away. It's a sweet way to brighten someone's day and make a real difference in your community! 😊
♿ This role is accessible for people using:
- Accessible toilets
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.