UnitingCare Volunteering Portal

📃 This volunteer opportunity will help to create vibrant, green spaces for residents to relax and enjoy the outdoors.

🌟 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.🌟

Our aged care facility is home to residents who appreciate the calming and uplifting effects of a well-kept garden.  As a Garden Guru, your work will bring joy and cheerfulness to the community by transforming our gardens into beautiful and peaceful areas, allowing residents to experience the positive effects of nature and a colorful environment.

Your contribution helps ensure our staff can focus on resident care, while you share the joy of gardening with our community.

📍Location:  BlueCare, Kingaroy Canowindra Aged Care, 43 Windsor Circle Kingaroy QLD 4610 

👉🏼 About Us: Great team to work with. Beautiful gardens and lawns to assist with manicuring. 

✅ What you’ll be doing:
▪️ Planting and maintaining flowers, shrubs, and other greenery in communal garden areas
▪️ Watering, pruning, and caring for plants to ensure the garden remains vibrant
▪️ Assisting with outdoor beautification projects like weeding, mulching, and tidying up
▪️ Engaging residents in light gardening activities, encouraging social interaction
▪️ Creating pleasant outdoor spaces where residents can relax and enjoy nature

🎁 What’s in it for you?
▪️ Experience the joy of making a meaningful difference
▪️ Improve mental health and personal well-being through outdoor activity
▪️ Enjoy social interaction with others, including residents and staff

🕑 Times: 7.30am - 3pm Negotiable 
💍 Commitment: 1-2 hours weekly 

📅 Days: ["Weekdays"] 

☑️ Skills and experience important for this role include:
▪️ A love for the outdoors and gardening
▪️ Friendly and approachable, able to engage with residents
▪️ Willingness to help with a range of gardening tasks
▪️ Good physical fitness and mobility

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

▪️ Reference Checks

▪️ National Police check

🚙 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"]
▪️ Suitable for volunteers with good mobility and an interest in outdoor activities

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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