📄 Currently Recruiting - Gold Coast - 🍃 Leafy Legends (Gold Coast, Labrador)
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📃 This volunteer opportunity will help to provide calming and vibrant spaces that provide opportunities for gentle exercise, relaxation, exposure to nature & social interaction for residents & visitors. Gardens are not merely landscaped additions to an aged care facility, they are vibrant spaces that nurture the physical, mental, social and emotional well-being of residents, leading to a higher quality of life.
Leafy Legend volunteers support by our Gardening and Maintenance Team by participate in a variety of gardening activities from planning and planting to nurturing and harvesting.
📍Location: BlueCare | Labrador Gardens Residential Aged Care Facility, 83 Muir Street, Labrador Qld 4215
👉🏼 About Us: Labrador Gardens is a modern 160 bed facility. It has extensive grounds that incorporate various indoor and outdoor green spaces. There are shady seated areas, wide pathways, courtyards, raised garden beds and indoor glasshouses, all which encourage Residents to interact with nature in different ways.
The gardens offer residents accessibility to a wide variety of plant life that includes a mix of flowers, low maintenance greenery, vegetables, herbs, etc. Plants with diverse textures, fragrances and colours are also incorporated to stimulate the senses and encourage exploration.
There is a coffee shop on the ground floor of the main 2 storey building which offers a delicious and very affordably priced array of fresh sandwiches, hot food and snacks. The maintenance/gardening team have a brand-new work shed, just outside the main building. Parking is available onsite and there is also ample parking in the surrounding streets.
✅ What you’ll be doing:
🎁 What’s in it for you?
🕑 Times: Times are negotiable within the hours of 8:00 am to 4:00 pm 💍 Commitment: Get started from as little as 1-2 hours fortnightly 📅 Days: Weekdays
☑️ Skills and experience important for this role include: ▪️ no previous gardening experience needed but must enjoy working outdoors the ability to work well with your hands to be thorough and pay attention to detail to be able to work in a team, with others to be able to take direction and work autonomously on small tasks the ability to use basic gardening tools - rake, spade, leaf blow/vac, wipper snipper, shears, hedger etc
☑️ 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.
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🙋🏼♂️ Volunteers Needed. Apply Now.
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