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📃 This volunteer role will help to provide a vibrant communal space where residents can relax and enjoy their next great read.  

If you're someone who enjoys helping people and staying organised then volunteering in our library may be your perfect fit!

Our Library isn't just about borrowing books as reading offers significant benefits to our residents. Engaging with books acts as a brain workout, strengthening neural connections and keeping the mind agile, which can help age-related cognitive decline, improve focus, reduce stress and offer a place where the imagination has no limits!

📍Location: BlueCare | Woodlands Lodge Residential Aged Care Facility, 29 Melbourne Road, Arundel Qld 4214

👉🏼 About Us: Woodlands Lodge is much more than an aged care facility, for over 100 frail aged and elderly people its their home. It may not be shiny and new like some other aged care facilities but it offers a place where friendship, comfort and care come together. At Woodlands Lodge we believe the little things in life, like selecting a good book, remain a personal and special experience.

✅ What you’ll be doing: 

- Catalogue resources, including books, magazines, periodicals, digital material (DVD's, CD's)

- Maintain a database and keep a digital record of resources

- Shelve and organise resources

- Help library users to locate books & use resources effectively

- Assit with selecting new materials for the library

🎁 What’s in it for you? 

🕑 Times: Flexible between 8.30am and 2.30pm

💍 Commitment: Get started from as little as 3 - 4 hours fortnightly 

📅 Days: Weekdays 

☑️ Skills and experience important for this role include: 

- Great customer service skills ability to communicate with frail aged and older people in ways which are respectful and courteous

- Good listening skills

- Good organisational skills

- Genuinely interested in being there and able to commit to a minimum of a few hours per week on a regular basis.

☑️ We’ll need to do the following checks before you start: 

🚙 Transport and Parking Options 

UnitingCare values diversity in our organisation and we have some principles in place that will help to promote both inclusion and access.  If you have any other accessibility requirements, please discuss these at the time of the interview.