💙 Volunteer to change lives. Yours included.
This volunteer role will help to enhance the wellbeing of residents by providing companionship and conversation to help create meaningful and socially connected experiences
🌟 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. 🌟
👉🏼 About Us: Woodlands Lodge may be one of BlueCares older residential sites but it is truly all heart. It has a warm, welcoming and homely atmosphere where residents are highly valued, respected and cared for. It is home to over 60 frail aged and elderly people and also offers 40 beds dedicated to interim care for those who are leaving hospital but are not quire ready to return home.
Woodlands Lodge is a place where friendships grow, familiar faces bring comfort and little moments of connection can make a big difference. Surrounded by rambling gardens it has a peaceful and homely feel. Residents and visitors can sit back and relax in the coffee shop, situated in a charming rotunda, where handmade treasures, jams and preserves are for sale.
📍 Location: BlueCare, Woodlands Lodge Residential Aged Care Facility, 29 Melbourne Road, Arundel Qld 4214
✅ What you’ll be doing:
You can choose from the following volunteer roles based on your interests and skills:
Social Crew
▪️ Assisting with activity set-up and pack-down
▪️Encouraging participation in group activities
▪️Sharing your hobbies, talents, or second language to enrich the day
▪️Supporting craft, music, trivia, bingo, and games
▪️Building rapport through 1-on-1 conversations
▪️Helping unsettled clients find calm spaces or take a walk
▪️Serving food during morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea.
🎁 What’s in it for you? ▪️Experience the joy of making a meaningful difference ▪️E️njoy social interaction with others ▪️Do something new and different
☑️ Skills and experience important for this role include:
▪️ Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
▪️ Willingness to engage with individuals on a personal level and provide emotional support
▪️ Punctuality and consistency is important to our residents
▪️ An understanding of professional boundaries, privacy and confidentiality.
▪️ Patient and reliable
♿ 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.