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📃 This volunteer opportunity will help to provide support and assistance to the Community Support Workers to deliver events, activities, outreach and emergency relief services to the Discovery Coast Community. 
 
As a response to the Agnes Water community, The UnitingCare - Community Support Service provides events, activities and outreach services to the communities of the Discovery coast area.  
 
We are looking for volunteers to join the UnitingCare team to assist our Community Support workers to provide these much-needed services to the community.  
•    Are you a Discovery Coast (Agnes, Baffle creek, Miriam Vale, Rosedale, Lowmead, Turkey Beach, 1770) resident? 
•    Do you enjoy engaging with people within your community?   
•    Do you enjoy giving back and making a difference in people’s lives?  
 
If you are interested in helping our Community Support Workers with their events, activities and support services and are compassionate and caring, please contact us. 
 
📍Location: Family Services | Discovery Coast Community Support Service, 97 Rocky Crossing Road - Round Hill  
 
👉🏼 About Us: UnitingCare Agnes Water consists of an amazing team of paid workers and volunteers. We are all driven by our passion to help the beautiful community and the wonderful people who live here to grow and thrive. 
 
✅ What you’ll be doing: 
▪️      Setting up and cleaning up after events and activities. 
▪️      Organisation, participation, Supervision and guidance in events and activities. 
▪️      General administration duties, eg, printing, collating and data collection. 
▪️      Assisting the Community Support Worker to deliver Outreach services and emergency relief. 
 
🎁 What’s in it for you? 
▪️      Experience the joy of making a meaningful difference 
▪️      Gain invaluable workplace experience 
▪️      To meet mutual obligations, student placement hours or other requirements 
 
🕑 Times: Within opening hours of 8:30am - 4:30pm (negotiable)    
💍 Commitment: Get started from as little as 3-4 hours Weekly 
📅 Days:  Weekdays 
 
☑️ Skills and experience important for this role include: 
▪️      An interest in, passion for or experience working with disadvantaged/marginalised people in the community would be preferred. 
 
☑️ We’ll need to do the following checks before you start: 
▪️      Reference Checks 
▪️      Working with children 

🚙 Transport and Parking Options 
▪️    Onsite parking and/or free public parking is available 
 
♿ This role is accessible for people using: 
▪️      This facility is not accessible 
 

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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.