• Canberra Australian Capital Territory
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Administration & Office Management, Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Retail & Sales

Make a difference in the lives of people that are blind or have low vision! Our Canberra team of Client Service Providers are seeking the support of a Retail Sales Wizz, someone who is friendly comfortable using the phone and chatting with our Blind and Low Vision clients. Retail experience would be ideal especially within the not for profit or disability sector.

• Remote Only
• Category: Health
• Types of work: Disability Support

Researchers at NeuRA and UNSW are recruiting for a study to determine if Virtual Reality Walking is effective as a treatment for complete Spinal Cord Injury neuropathic pain. The treatment is home-based so people living anywhere in Australia can participate. Participants can receive a total of $200 for completing all trial activities. All VR equipment is provided!

• Remote Only
• Category: Disability Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Music & Entertainment

Do you like going to see live music? Do you enjoy going to sporting events? Do you like the arts, going to the theatre, cinema or restaurants? Do you have a passion for equal rights? Do you want to enable a person with a learning disability and/or autism to go to events and get out more? Then you could make a perfect Gig Buddy!

• Remote Only
• Category: Disability Services
• Types of work: Counselling & Help Line, Disability Support, Mediation & Advocacy, Working with Animals

Do you love being part of an organisation making a difference to people doing it tough? Your help will make the difference for pensioners and their pets - help keep these best friends together by joining the Pet Medical Crisis team. We are looking for volunteer social workers to help vulnerable pensioners and their pets in crisis.

• Remote Only
• Category: Human Rights
• Types of work: Disability Support, Mediation & Advocacy

Would you like to make a difference in the lives of people in your own community and also hold a prominent volunteer role? Become a Community Visitor with the Office of the Public Advocate. Community Visitors are the eyes and ears of the community and perform an important role of upholding the human rights of people with a cognitive disability and/or mental illness who are living in supported care.

• Remote Only
• Category: Health
• Types of work: Disability Support, Education & Training, Governance, Boards & Committees, Mediation & Advocacy

A Consumer Advisor is a member of our community who can voice a lived experience of health care at Western Health. They participate in committees, focus groups, projects and a range of other activities to ensure the patient perspective is always considered. Consumer Advisors are part of the Western Health community and should reflect the diversity of our community

• Remote Only
• Category: Health
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Counselling & Help Line, Disability Support

The helpline was established in 2009, and is the only such service in Australia helping people living with pain. Guides have a personal connection to chronic pain and are able to support callers with chronic pain.

• Remote Only
• Category: Health
• Types of work: Administration & Office Management, Companionship & Social Support, Counselling & Help Line, Disability Support

The co-facilitator for the "Everybody is Welcome" Pain Support Group can be located anywhere in Australia. The group is a safe space for to help participants to share their experiences of living with chronic pain, promoting self-management techniques, reducing isolation and assisting with health system navigation.

• Remote Only
• Category: Disability Services
• Types of work: Administration & Office Management, Disability Support

Telelink Connectors and admin support volunteers help support one of the longest running programs to assist people that are blind or low vision to live the life that they choose. The Telelink program provides special interest group discussion's for blind and low vision people all the way around Australia to interact with one another via phone with a volunteer facilitator. The connection volunteer is charged with connecting the groups on a regular connection schedule.

• Remote Only
• Category: Disability Services
• Types of work: Disability Support

Telelink Facilitator volunteers help support one of the longest running programs to assist people that are blind or low vision to live the life that they choose. The program provides special interest group discussion's for blind and low vision people all around Australia to interact with one another via phone. The volunteer Facilitator is charged with connecting the groups on a regular connection schedule, promotes positive communication between the participants and adds to the discussion.

• Remote Only
• Category: Disability Services
• Types of work: Disability Support, Working with Animals

Western Australian Assistance and Therapy Dogs are looking for puppy raisers across WA to assist us with raising our future assistance and therapy dog prospects.

• Australian Capital Territory
• Category: Disability Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Seniors & Aged Care

The Roundabout Project is a volunteer peer support project that aims to assist participants with Disability to engage with our LGBTIQA+ community encouraging networking and connections. By sharing personal experiences and developing mutual peer-to-peer friendship, participants may gain a greater sense of connection to community and develop a deeper sense of belonging, self-esteem, and interpersonal trust.

• Melbourne Victoria / Remote Friendly
• Category: Homeless
• Types of work: Administration & Office Management, Disability Support, Marketing, Media & Communications, Writing & Editing

Sourcing and applying for grants for Avalon Centre, a centre that is run entirely by volunteers that help those in need.

• Tewantin Queensland / Remote Friendly
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Seniors & Aged Care

Assisting Diversional Therapy staff to enhance the lives of seniors through meaningful interaction and regular activity attendance

• Armadale Victoria / Remote Friendly
• Category: Human Rights
• Types of work: Disability Support, Mediation & Advocacy

Would you like to make a difference in the lives of people in your own community and also hold a prominent volunteer role? Become a Community Visitor with the Office of the Public Advocate. Community Visitors are the eyes and ears of the community and perform an important role of upholding the human rights of people with a cognitive disability and/or mental illness.